Donald H. Harrison

Rabin Centre in Tel Aviv depicts his life and Israel’s history

  TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Yitzhak Rabin, who served as Prime Minister of Israel during two separate periods, 1974-77 and 1992-95, was a figure who towered over his generation. The first native Israeli (‘sabra’) to serve in that office, he was assassinated by an extremist right-wing Jew in November 1995, at the conclusion of […]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

A Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas

By Joel A. Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California — It is common for laypersons to scoff and ridicule the mentally aberrant and to deride those who ‘treat’ such suffering.  Mishegas is the Yiddish label.  Jay Neugebren, Michael B. Friedman MSW and Lloyd I. Sederer MD have crafted (potchkied) a parody of the DSM-5.  (Diagnostic and

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Israeli hospitals accepting more and more Palestinian patients

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — A report published by The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT) shows that 219,464 Palestinian patients received medical treatment in Israeli hospitals during 2012, 21,270 of them children. These numbers include the companions accompanying the patients in Israel. These numbers constitutes a dramatic increase in Palestinians receiving

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Of men and their sex drives in wine country and in politics

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California -While New York’s Anthony Weiner and  San Diego’s own Bob Filner are making front page news for their alleged sexcapades and perfidy, La Jolla Playhouse presents Sideways, the tale of a bachelor party gone most awry.  Sure, sexual misconduct is always titillating, but most especially when it’s so downright

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Eva Trieger

Phasing of prisoner release a test for negotiations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For several days we have heard the pluses and minuses of an apparently simple, but actually complex decision by Israeli government ministers to release some 104 prisoners for the sake of negotiations with the Palestinians. The decision is complex because it was made in principle, with important details left for

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

JNS news briefs: July 29, 2013

Hamas and Iran hold meetings to mend ties (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Despite differences over the civil war in Syria, senior Hamas officials met with Iranian and Hezbollah officials in Beirut last month in an effort to mend ties, the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Sunday. Palestinian sources cited in the report said “Important meetings

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International

Israel-Palestinian Authority talks to commence July 29

  WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)–The U.S. State Department on Sunday issued the following announcement about forthcoming talks between representatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority: “Today, Secretary Kerry spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and personally extended an invitation to send senior negotiating teams to Washington to formally resume

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