WASHINGTON, DC. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday, June 18, called for the immediate release of the three teenage boys who went missing in Israel’s West Bank last Thursday. One of the boys, Naftali Frenkel, is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
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Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two prominent Jewish philanthropic families will have their names forever linked to cancer treatment at a hospital being built on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. The hospital is called the Jacobs Medical Center, after the family of
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Sondra Berk of San Diego, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on June 15 for her leadership and dedication to the Technion and the San Diego community. A natural leader and passionate advocate for the Technion, Berk is a long-time member of the American Technion Society
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –That’s really scary, I said to Heather, my forty-six-year-old trainer. I don’t want to do this. Heather insisted, it was not about a new set of exercises that she was promoting, it was for me to get online on a dating site. As I was resisting, stating huge
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) announced on Wednesday, June 18, that Stephan Kramer will be appointed to a newly-created position — Director, European Office on Anti-Semitism. “The rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, which poses a threat to Jewish communities and to the very fabric and fiber of Europe’s democratic societies, demands
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International, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Lung cancer causes more deaths in the U.S. than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast, and pancreatic). The reason for the striking mortality rate is simple: poor detection. Lung cancer attacks without leaving any fingerprints, quietly afflicting its victims and metastasizing uncontrollably — to the point of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Two massive fires broke out Tuesday, June 17, in the Jerusalem area, one in the Giloh neighborhood and one near Abu-Gosh, on the main route between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The fire in Abu Gosh caused the shutting down of route No. 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, met Wednesday, June 18, with the families of the kidnapped boys Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frankel and Gilad Sha’ar. The meeting was attended by the parents of the boys and representatives of the police and the military who are in constant contact with the families. During
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Life on the borders of cultures has been brought again to the fore in the crisis of three boys. We are seeing how far apart we are from Palestinians who celebrate the kidnapping, compare it to Israel’s imprisonment of their heroes who we see as murderers. And how far apart
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East-World Jewish Congress report- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the immediate release of the three teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank last Thursday. “Those who perpetrated this act want to destroy us [the Palestinians],” Abbas said during a visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “The three young men are human beings just like us
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Middle EastGelb explains Simulcast cancellation of “The Death of Klinghoffer” (JNS.org) “I’m convinced that the opera is not anti-Semitic,” New York Metropolitan Opera’s Leslie Gelb said in a statement in which he announced a simulcast of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at AMC theatres would be canceled, but live performances at the Met would proceed. “But
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Middle East
SAO PAULO, Brazil (WJC) —Moise Safra, who died on Sunday at the age 79, was “an extraordinary philanthropist and businessman,” according to World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder. Born into a Syrian Jewish banking family in Aleppo, the Safra family relocated to the Lebanese capital Beirut after the First World War because the city was
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International
By Anav Silverman KALUNSA, Israel — This Arab city in central Israel last week held a fundraising event called ‘A Smile of Hope’ for a leading Israeli disabilities organization, Beit Issie Shapiro and its Sindian Center, which serves the Kalansua community and Arabs from across the Southern Triangle. The event is believed to be
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– With news that the winner of this week’s $259.8 million Powerball jackpot is a Tennessean, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), a strong advocate for making college affordable and the father of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship program, has emphasized the benefits for Tennessee’s students provided by the lottery. The Congressman fought for
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