Donald H. Harrison

Lowey endorses Obama’s request for Ebola aid

WASHNGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday, Nov. 5,  issued the following statement on President Obama’s request for emergency funding to address Ebola in Africa and public health preparedness in the United States. “The Ebola epidemic has taken a tragic toll in Liberia, Sierra

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

U.S., Jordan condemn J’lem terror, seek renewed talks

PARIS, France (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh “discussed the increasing tensions recently in areas across Jerusalem, and particularly surrounding the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. We condemn the terrorist attack in Jerusalem this morning that killed at least one person when a car was

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Travel and Food

Humoring the Headlines: November 5, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Somewhere in hell Joseph McCarthy watched last night’s election results.  Not knowing that television networks now designate Republican states as red and Democratic ones as blue, he looked at the electoral map and commented, “I warned them the communists would take over the United States!” * Boko Haram reported that

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

AJC: World should condemn P.A. terror incitement

NEW YORK (Press Release)  — The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, is urging governments worldwide to condemn unequivocally Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, and to press the Palestinian Authority to make every effort to deter, rather than incite, further assaults. “Hamas rockets and missiles may be quiet for the moment, but Palestinian

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Middle East, USA

Anti- Israel faculty take on the ADL

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–Since its founding in 2001, the radical campus group Students for Justice in Palestine has had as its mission to demonize Israel and promote a campaign to accuse the Jewish state of apartheid, racism, brutal occupation, and crimes against humanity, among other accusations. Its radical behavior has created a toxic

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

JNS news briefs: November 4, 2014

3 Arabs from Jerusalem suspected of vandalizing Jewish gravestones (JNS.org) The Jerusalem Central Investigative Unit of the Israel Police on Monday arrested three Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem’s A-Tor neighborhood who are suspected of vandalizing Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives. The police launched the investigation after dozens of headstones were smashed. The oldest

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Middle East

BGU: Autistic brains not physically different

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– In the largest MRI study to date, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the brain anatomy in MRI scans of people with autism above age six is mostly indistinguishable from that of typically developing individuals and, therefore, of little clinical or scientific value.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel to restrict releases of future terrorists

By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)—The Knesset approved a bill submitted by Member of Knesset Ayelet Shaked (Habayit HaYehudi), which effectively prevents the government from releasing prisoners in any future political deals. The bill creates a new charge in murder cases, “murder under extraordinarily severe circumstances.” Prisoners convicted of murder in this category, under the bill,

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Middle East