Ayatollah Khamenei promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy (JNS.org) On the eve of Iran’s June 14 presidential elections, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on his Facebook profile by featuring the logo of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee accompanied by text reading “the U.S. president is being elected from only two parties
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InternationalSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Local students display their work at the “Dare to Reuse” Art Exhibition being held at the New Children’s Museum running through August 28, 2013. The contest and exhibition are sponsored by the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department, WAXIE Sanitary Supply, Inc., and the New Children’s Museum. “WAXIE Sanitary
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San Diego County
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — While baby boomers expect a Jewish film to deal with Jewish subjects and star overtly Jewish actors and actresses like Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Benjamin, Goldie Hawn, and Barbra Streisand, viewers born after 1980 are more likely to think of raunchy “bromance” comedies featuring Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler,
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Lawrence BaronTEL AVIV (Press Release)— A structure called “the microtubule network” is a crucial part of our nervous system. It acts as a transportation system within nerve cells, carrying essential proteins and enabling cell-to-cell communications. But in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s, this network breaks down, hindering motor abilities and cognitive function. Now Prof.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman BEERSHEVA, Israel — Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) graduated its first class of Jordanian and Israeli students who completed a special joint-emergency medicine BA program earlier this year. The first graduating class at the Israel-Jordan Academic Emergency Medicine Collaboration included 54 graduates who spent three years studying emergency medicine and
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Middle EastWounded Syrian treated in Israel comes with doctor’s note (JNS.org) A severely wounded Syrian rebel carrying a note from the Syrian doctor who treated him was transferred to Israel’s Ziv Hospital in Safed for treatment on Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported. Ziv Hospital has treated 20 Syrians since the onset of the Syrian civil war. The
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International
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? — “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — While screenwriter Michael Reaves may be a household name to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” fans, to
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Eva TriegerBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel is experiencing what may be a painful maturation of its gay and lesbian community. It comes with the unfolding of a long running police investigation into the shooting deaths of two and the wounding of 11, one of whom was seriously disabled, four years ago at a gay and
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By Lloyd Levy LONDON — The Middle East seems to be descending into quite unfathomable turmoil and barbarity. My own country Britain, is seemingly pushing harder than anyone to arm the “rebels” in Syria, hence potentially handing modern armaments to the likes of al-Qaida and other extremists. Why the British Government is so intent on
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastMossad reportedly gives Ankara intelligence (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tamir Pardo, met secretly with the Turkish intelligence agency’s undersecretary, Hakan Fidan, on June 10 in Ankara, with Syria, Iran and the Gezi Park protests on the agenda, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported Wednesday. Pardo claimed to have information
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Everyone has his or her own voice. Some express it loudly and clearly; some just mumble or whisper. There are those who let their voices be heard only in their professional lives and are silent and withdrawn at home. Others use their voices only within their families
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Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Last month, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (SDSO) concluded its Chamber Music Series at the Scripps Research Institute Auditorium with a program featuring an unusual instrument for classical chamber music concerts, the mandolin. That plucked folk instrument, in the hands of the Israeli-born mandolin virtuoso, Avi Avital, combined with string
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Eileen WingardNetanyahu: Construction has ‘no bearing’ on peace deal (JNS.org) Speaking behind closed doors at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if peace negotiations with the Palestinians were entered into, they were expected to “be long and tough, but that the alternative Israel faces is a
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InternationalBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — For Raul De Molina, an Emmy award winning co-host of a top-rated entertainment news show, El Gorda y la Flaca, a recent visit to Israel with a group of Hispanic media personalities rekindled a new kind of appreciation for food. The Latin superstar, who hosts the popular show on America’s
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