At the height of the recent brouhaha about the U.K. Labour Party’s problem with anti-Semitism—it’s not entirely finished yet—I got an e-mail from an old friend in South Carolina. “You got me thinking I am some sort of anti-Semite. I am a somewhat reluctant Zionist. Help me out here, would you?” My friend is an […]
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International, Middle EastBritain’s Chief Rabbi Efraim Mirvis has weighed in on the growing anti-Semitism scandal within the UK Labour Party, in a stinging oped on Jew-hatred emanating from the far-left. In his remarkably forceful article – entitled “Ken Livingstone and the hard Left are spreading the insidious virus of anti-Semitism” – Rabbi Mirvis takes to task in
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InternationalNEW YORK (AJC)– In observance of Yom HaShoah, which begins Wednesday evening, May 4, the American Jewish Committee issued the following statement: WE REMEMBER In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 69 years
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International, Jewish History, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Now that we are well and truly entrenched in the digital age it comes as no surprise to find that this has been adopted and adapted to its own ends by the community of Jews originally from German-speaking lands, otherwise known as Yekkes. Ever since I joined Facebook
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastIsrael to open office at NATO headquarters (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday night took another important step toward becoming a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. The organization announced that it will allow Israel to open an office at NATO headquarters in Brussels to push forward a process that could ultimately lead
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO -If you’re old enough to remember Virginia Slims cigarettes, then “Rapture, Blister, Burn” will be a great blast from the past. Clearly, playwright, Gina Gionfriddo, did her homework, and delivers a well-researched, detailed time line of the Feminist Movement. It is no surprise that she was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said Israel should continue building in Judea and Samaria, insisting the Jewish state should “keep moving forward” in response to Arab terrorism. Speaking to the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump emphasized his support for the State of Israel, and appeared to veer away from previous comments in which he declared
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, San Diego Jewish Academy students will be spending Thursday, May 5th remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Roth
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Laurie Baron FALMOUTH, United Kingdom -Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina his running mate because she is even more unlikable than him. After he introduced her at a rally, he did not notice when she fell off the stage replicating the response of most Americans when she withdrew from the presidential race earlier this year.
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau Australia has vowed no change to its refugee policy after a Somali woman seeking asylum set fire to herself in protest over her detention on the Pacific island of Nauru. The 21-year old is said to be in a critical condition. It is the
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InternationalEvery election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presidential election, the big question was whether America could elect a non-white man — in this case, an African-American — as president. Up until then, all U.S. presidents had been white Christian males
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