By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated that he won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and he’s claiming support for that position from an unlikely quarter: former U.S. president Harry Truman. But a closer look reveals that Truman’s words are being misrepresented. In a Feb. 3 interview with the New York […]
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Middle East
By Debra Rubin/JNS.org Aviva Sufian was just 8 years old when her mother took her to an American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors event in Philadelphia in 1985. She remembers survivor after survivor standing up and announcing, “My name is, and this is where I’m from.” Sufian, whose grandparents had come to this country shortly
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USANEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Thursday, Feb. 6, called on the Greek party Syriza to withdraw a candidate for a regional governorship who made anti-Semitic statements about Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and the country’s new public broadcasting channel NERIT. “Syriza should withdraw the candidacy of Theodoros Karypidis for governor of
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Travel and Food
By Aryeh Savir NETANYA, Israel – President Shimon Peres on Thursday, Feb. 5, set a new Guinness World Record as he delivered the largest online civics class in the world. President Peres delivered the online class using Cisco’s advanced technology from the company’s headquarters in Netanya. Over 6,500 students from 215 classes across the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Ever meet someone who just seems to know how to make lemonade out of lemons? When the glass is half empty, someone that can see the space as free to fill with a fine wine? This very optimism and desire to find humor, promise and possibility is in our
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Travel and FoodU.S., Palestinians condemn approval of new Israeli construction in Jerusalem (JNS.org) The U.S. and the Palestinians on Wednesday both condemned the Jerusalem municipality local planning committee’s approval of construction permits for 768 new residential units, including some units in neighborhoods located beyond the 1967 lines. “Our position on Jerusalem is clear,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A sage cited in the Ethics of the Fathers taught that the world is founded on three things: Torah (sacred study), Avodah (worship, which is also the word for “work”) and G’millut Chassadim (acts of loving-kindness). Law professor Aviad Hacohen, writing in the daily Yisrael Hayom, offers a haredi
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — We’ve all heard metaphors about people judged to be so gentle they “wouldn’t hurt a fly,” but in former Second Lady Joan Mondale’s case, it was literally true, according to her traveling companion during former U.S. Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale’s campaign for President. Elaine Galinson,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Are they or aren’t they threatening Israel? The US Secretary of State and the EU Representative in Israel both said, within days of one another, that the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace talks will increase the economic pressure on Israel. Israeli officials responded to both with counter threats that such language has
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Feb. 5, decried comments about Reform Judaism attributed to Israeli parliament member David Rotem as “inappropriate, offensive and unjustified,” and called on the Knesset member to retract his statements “quickly and unequivocally” and apologize to the Reform Movement. According to news reports, Mr. Rotem,
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Middle East
Editor’s Note: Holocaust Survivor Garry Fabian, on the invitation of several German Foundations, recently returned to his native Stuttgart and other German cities from Australia, where he took refuge after liberation from Theresienstadt. Fabian kept a journal on the trip, excerpts from which we reprint here. By Garry Fabian 21-22 January Departed Melbourne at 10.30pm
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International, Jewish History
By Ryan Scott Karben NEW YORK — There was a political earthquake in Albany on Tuesday, Feb. 4, and its tremors reached Jerusalem. A bill to penalize organizations at New York universities that participate in academic boycotts of Israel was yanked from consideration by the State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education at the last minute.
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USA
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)- Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) joined her colleagues in offering an amendment to let the Secretary of the Interior include climate change in considering decisions on conservation and recreation on public lands. The amendment was an effort to improve a House Majority legislation (HR 3590) attempting to undermine environmental protections for National
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USA
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