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Former N.Z. prime minister to address Israel conference

CAESAREA, Israel (Press Release)–ID² – Israeli Designed International Development, an exclusive three-day gathering of 70 young Jewish innovators, entrepreneurs and international development professionals from Israel and around the world, is scheduled for February 18-20 in Caesarea. Coming together across sectors – private, government and NGOs – they will be looking at how to harness Israeli

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Uruguayan book sheds new light on Jewish Legion

By Randy Fadem MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay–A previously unknown Yiddish book, Zichronot Fun Yiddischen Legion (Memories of the Jewish Legion) by Moshe Krel,  written, published, and printed in Montevideo, Uruguay in May, 1938,  was discovered by this author at the Astor Judaica Library, Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, in the Spring of 2012. The Library donated

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Travel and Food

Incident in Babaeski, Turkey, brings ADL protest

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday, Feb. 12,  expressed alarm at a reported anti-Semitic attack against two Jewish businessmen in a northwestern Turkish city, and called on Turkish authorities to fully investigate the incident. According to reports, the two Jewish individuals were eating at a restaurant on February 6 in the

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International

Bennett, others walk out on EU’s Schultz

  JERUSALEM (WJC) — Several Israeli ministers have accused Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, of spreading lies about Israel in his speech before the Knesset on Wednesday. Industry, Trade, Labor and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett and other members of Bennett’s Jewish Home faction walked out of the Israeli parliament chamber

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Travel and Food

Memories of ‘Commie Camp’

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Hearing  terms like “bug juice,” “arts and crafts time,” “bunks,” and “head counselor ” conjures up one mental picture: Summer Camp.  However, imagine to these terms are added “social action”, “Democratic process” and “nonviolent resistance.”  Filmmaker and stand up comedienne, Katie Halper, described her current offering for the San

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: February 12, 2014

Hadassah medical staff to operate on emergency levels only amid strike (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Medical staffers at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem are intensifying their strike and announced that they will operate at emergency levels only, with even less staff coming to work than the current weekend capacity. “We are leaving only life-saving staff in

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International

JNS news briefs: February 11, 2014

Chinese conglomerate in negotiations to buy Israeli dairy co-op Tnuva (JNS.org) Negotiations for control of Israeli dairy cooperative Tnuva are moving forward, as the company’s controlling shareholders—British investment firm Apax and Mivtach Shamir Food Industries Ltd.—consider selling Apax’s share in the company to China’s Bright Food Group. According to sources close to the negotiations, if

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International

AJC applauds Israel’s admission to U.N. group

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC hailed Israel’s admission to the JUSCANZ regional group at UN headquarters in New York. “JUSCANZ membership is another important step in rectifying the systemic discrimination against Israel at the UN,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “We applaud U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power for her determined efforts to mobilize support among JUSCANZ members to correct this long-standing diplomatic anomaly. Both Ambassador

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International

ADL: Presbyterians should repudiate ‘study guide’

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Feb. 11, voiced “outrage and anger” over the publication of Zionism Unsettled by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  The document, intended as a “study guide” for congregations, may be the most anti-Semitic document to come out of a mainline American church in

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