Donald H. Harrison

TAU: Neuron groups, not single neurons, regulate brain

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— To compensate for erratic shifts and spikes in its neuronal communications, the brain relies on the stabilizing mechanism called “homeostasis” — the ability to maintain relatively stable equilibrium between different elements of its composition — to preserve overall network function. Disruptions in stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little […]

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Travel and Food

Smuggling network helps rebuild Hamas military

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Israel has uncovered an efficient network operated by Hamas to acquire and smuggle materials used for strengthening the organization’s military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip according to the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet or ISA). Together with the Israel Police, Israel Tax Authority and the State Attorney’s Office, assisted

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Middle East

Kerry tells UNHRC to stop its bias against Israel

GENEVA, Switzerland (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference Monday, March 2, that he called upon the U.N. Human Rights Council to correct its “excessive bias, in our judgment, on one country, on Israel.”  Following is a transcript of his remarks to a news conference following his appearance before the Council.

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International, Middle East, USA

Sherman withdraws from Boteach’s forum

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) withdrew from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s roundtable discussion event “The Meaning of Never Again: Preventing a Nuclear Iran,” following a distasteful advertisement placed in the New York Times showing National Security Advisor Susan Rice and a pile of skulls. The bottom of the advertisement invited the public to

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Middle East, USA

France’s P.M. calls extremism ‘Islamo- fascism’

(JNS.org) French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that the anti-Israel sentiment spreading across France can be considered anti-Semitism. In the 1970s, the French elite developed a new kind of anti-Semitism, focused primarily on Israel and Zionism, Valls told the Wall Street Journal. This new bigotry, he said, has “all the components of anti-Semitism, the old ones,” such as

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Middle East, USA

Power: U.N. attacks on Israel are ‘biased, ugly’

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference on Monday morning, March 2, touted U.S. efforts to support Israel at the U.N. and said the U.S.-Israel relationship “transcends politics.” Power called it “bitterly unjust that the United Nations, an institution founded

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu: Speech won’t derail U.S.- Israel friendship

Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—A day before his much-debated speech about Iran to a joint session of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, March 2, attempted to assure the 16,000 people attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference—an annual showcase for the U.S-Israel relationship—that current tension will not derail the countries’ friendship.

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USA

Industry leader says Jews should speak up about Iran

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

AJC: Boteach owes Rice an apology

NEW YORK (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris on Sunday, March 1, issued the following statement regarding a full-page ad in the Feb. 28 edition of the New York Times, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, assailing U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice: “As AJC said in a tweet yesterday, this ad was ‘way

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Middle East, USA