Donald H. Harrison

Settlers, Haredim both important blocs in Israel politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Settlers and the ultra-Orthodox are  important minorities in Israeli politics. Both are somewhere on the fringe of key decision-makers, but must be taken into consideration even if not part of the A-team. There is no precise measure of either group. “Settlers” are both more and less than the people living in post-1967 […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

JNS news briefs: February 27, 2014

  Palestinian students launch anti-Israel photo exhibit at Hebrew University (JNS.org) Watan, a Palestinian student group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, launched a new exhibit featuring photos whose captions are hostile to Israel, referring to Jerusalem as a “sewer of the Israeli settlements” and to Israeli soldiers as “the occupation army” and “the hunters

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International

Amnesty Int’l says IDF ‘trigger happy;’ IDF says the group is out of touch with reality on the ground

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Amnesty International released a report on Thursday, Feb. 27, accusing the IDF and Israeli police of being “Trigger-happy”, using “reckless force in the West Bank.” “Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West Bank over

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Middle East

ADL congratulates Brewer on veto of anti-gay bill

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Feb. 26,  welcomed Governor Jan Brewer’s veto of legislation that would have been a harmful attack on civil rights.  Arizona’s so-called “religious freedom” bill, driven by opponents of marriage equality, would have provided a legal defense to individuals and businesses who claimed that a “sincerely

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Travel and Food

Faulconer names Jewish woman as S.D. police chief

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer on Wednesday, Feb. 26, named Assistant Chief Shelley Zimmerman to succeed retiring William Lansdowne as San Diego’s Police Chief.  The appointment becomes effective on Monday, March 3, the same day Faulconer will be sworn in as mayor. Zimmerman, who is Jewish, will be the first

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 18, 1957, Part 3

Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy from  the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website,  simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5

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Adventures in SD History

Pre leukemic stem cell may regenerate leukemia

  HAIFA (Press Release)–An Israeli physician-scientist is a member of the Toronto research team that discovered a stem cell that may be responsible for initiating leukemia and triggering relapses in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The groundbreaking study was published in Nature magazine Feb. 12. The findings show that in about 25 percent of

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Titanium Core wins $1 million in JVP competition

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), on Wednesday, Feb. 26, announced that an innovative startup company from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won the first ever “Cybertition.” The winner of the cyber-security startup competition was announced at a JVP co-sponsored event here. Titanium Core will receive a $1 million investment and space in

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Science, Medicine, & Education