By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org It’s all over. Barack Obama has won a second term, and that means a presidential race that has lasted for more than a year has just taken a sharp nosedive. Akin to being suddenly deprived of your favorite reality TV show, you may feel a little lost, and may begin […]
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Jacob Kamaras and Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Capping a race that on a national level was largely defined by the economy but in the Jewish community turned into an extended debate over which candidate would steer the best course for the U.S.-Israel relationship, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to earn a
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USALongtime friends Jessie Streich-Kest and Jacob Vogelman, two Brooklyn Jews in their 20s, were killed by a tree uprooted during the height of Hurricane Sandy. JNS.org interviews Vogelman’s father Lawrence and New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, a friend of Streich-Kest’s family. By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org Jessie Streich-Kest and Jacob Vogelman, two Brooklyn Jews and friends from childhood who
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USABy Lisa Haney SAN DIEGO — Three years after initiating seed funding to increase the diversity of access points to Jewish life and inspire greater engagement, caring and stronger relationships with Israel, 18 projects supported by the Jewish Federation of San Diego County’s Community Innovation Fund are now underway. What have we learned that can
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San Diego CountyBy Sean Savage/JNS.org As the conflict in Syria continues to escalate, there are growing fears of an increasing radical jihadist role in the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad’s government—complicating options for the West and presenting new threats for Israel. Syria’s beleaguered Christian community, which comprises 10 percent of the population, is witnessing the growth of
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Middle EastThree Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza border blast (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Three Israeli soldiers were wounded on Tuesday morning when a roadside bomb exploded near an armored vehicle along the border with the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported. The injured soldiers received medical care at the scene and one was later transported to Soroka
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InternationalBy Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—For Levana Vidal Zamir, it was a “good childhood”—until May 14, 1948. At midnight, she recalls, Egyptian officers rampaged through her family’s house and destroyed everything. They denounced her uncle as a “Zionist,” arrested him, and held him in jail for almost two years. The Egyptian government confiscated the family’s business—the
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Ha’aretz headline of November 5, which my daughter Tamara Schiff forwarded to me, stated: “Yoav Talmi named new director of Israel Chamber Orchestra.” I was excited to read the news. Tamara and I had just returned from a nine-day trip to Israel where we saw the
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Eileen WingardAlan Safier’s one-man show perpetuates the legend of comics George Burns (born Naftaly Birnbaum) and Gracie Allen (Burns’s wife). JNS.org interviewed Safier on his play and author Lawrence Epstein on Burns’s Jewish background. By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Born in Cleveland—where George Burns and Gracie Allen were married—Alan Safier keeps the legendary comedy duo alive. Made up
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Travel and FoodBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in mid-October for their work in market design. Shapley and another researcher, David Gale, came up with the Gale-Shapley algorithm, which showed how 10 men and 10 women could be matched so that no two
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Science, Medicine, & EducationAbbas ignites controversy over ‘right of return’ remarks (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas ignited a firestorm of controversy over the weekend, stemming from remarks that he made on an Israeli television interview that seemingly conceded the Palestinian “right of return.” In an English language one-on-one interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Abbas was asked
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –While a large part of American culture and bio-medicine is taken up with either living forever (or at least to 120 or more) or promoting youth culture at the expense of facing the realities of aging, author Daniel Klein has in mid-70s taken a few steps back in time to
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Imagine a dance highly formalized, without emotion, between partners who don’t even like one another, never mind pleasure or lust. That’s what we’ve been seeing the last few days around an interview given by Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazan, a.k.a. President of the Palestine National Authority, but not recognized as such
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– For years, for over 60 years at least and maybe for as long as 100 years, scholars and graduate students in English-speaking countries have been using a term — “scare quotes” — that has now become embedded in the print pages and online blogs of daily journalism as well. What’s
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