By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel–Avi Shavit is a native-born Israeli Zionist and peace activist. He is also a respected columnist for Ha’aretz newspaper, Israel’s most left wing newspaper. A leading Israeli author, Shavit published his best-selling My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel in 2013. It has become a bestseller. Here’s an
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A story is told about a self-centered and egotistical man who went on a date with a woman he had just met. As they sat at dinner, he proceeded to tell her of all of his abilities, accomplishments, and fine qualities. He eventually realized that he was dominating
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Jewish ReligionArab MKs attack plan to build new Galilee Jewish communities (JNS.org) The Knesset’s Interior Committee was the scene of heated emotions on Thursday as Arab MKs attacked the Israeli government initiative to build new Jewish communities in northern Israel’s Galilee region. MK Hanna Swaid (Hadash) spoke of the “obsession of the housing and construction minister
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International
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — When words are not only unnecessary but may get in the way of delivering a beautiful, haunting, dark message, they are left out. When a story is so universal that we need not attach a face to the experiences, the camera omits the visage. Such is the
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Archeologists have discovered a network of prehistoric limestone dwellings under Miami Beach. While some of them speculate that the 2,000 year old structures were inhabited by the Tequesta Indians; others believe that they were originally built by one of the lost tribes of Israel because an inscription found in one of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNEW YORK (Press Release) – The Patriot Act’s overly broad definitions of “terrorist activity” and “terrorist group” that have unjustly prevented thousands of refugees — who do not pose a threat to the United States – from receiving protection in the United States, will no longer be applied to certain refugees, according to an announcement
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, Feb. 6, welcomed a statement by Member of Knesset David Rotem in which he apologized for “any misunderstanding and offense generated by the contents of my comments yesterday,” regarding his remarks on Reform Judaism. According to reports, Mr. Rotem, the Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law
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Jewish Religion
NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC is challenging the Presbyterian Church (USA) commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace, following the publication of Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide. This study guide, billed by the church as an educational resource, was produced by the Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), one of the church’s educational arms. “It is a devastating distortion
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
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 Food