SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Aviva Paley of San Diego, who helped launch Kitchen for Good, which uses unused kitchen produce to feed the hungry, has been selected to participate in the 2016 ROI Global Summit in Jerusalem, an exclusive, high-profile gathering of young global innovators taking place June 26-30. (ROI is a bilingual play on words […]
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Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Every city has its pluses and minuses. They are part of what makes a city, i.e., a mixture of different peoples and their perspectives, along with whatever lays heavily on the current generation due to the history of what happened before them and the precedents created. Jerusalem must be somewhere
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An Orthodox Jewish woman is suing her former employer the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) after it punished her for observing Passover, considered one of the most important holidays in Judaism. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty joined together with the American Jewish Committee, one of the nation’s leading Jewish advocacy
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USAIsrael reportedly strikes Syria for first time under new defense minister (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike over the weekend against a military installation south of Homs, according to a report on Tuesday by the Syrian website Zaman Al Wasl, which identifies with the regime of Syrian President Bashar
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO –Election Central—where results are posted and candidates and their sign-toting supporters parade from television interview to interview—was buzzing Tuesday night, June 7, with two conclusions about the race in which Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination: Having a woman
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Donald H. Harrison, Shor M. Masori, USABernie Nation is taking it on the chin, and if they need to Sanders’ warriors can lean on my shoulder now that their long road is over. I do understand their pain. How it can feel so unfair. Over! California and New Jersey haven’t even finished voting yet! How can it be over? It’s over
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USAWASHINGTON — No matter your preference of candidate, party or ideology, Tuesday marks a defining moment in the United States. For the first time in 240 years, a woman — Hillary Clinton — has locked up a major party’s nomination for president, and is now within shot of winning the White House itself in November.
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USAWASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s attempt Tuesday to roll out an anti-poverty plan was quickly overshadowed by Donald Trump’s impolitic assault on an American-born judge’s Mexican heritage. “Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” Ryan told reporters in
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – President Obama’s national security advisor, Ambassador Susan Rice, delivered a major address to the AJC Global Forum. “Our commitment to Israel, as always, transcends partisanship,” Rice declared. “Israel’s security isn’t a Democratic interest or a Republican interest—it’s an enduring American interest.” Rice spoke to more than 2,700 people at the AJC
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Middle East, USAWarning: Graphic language The federal government has ordered Canada Post to stop delivering Your Ward News, a crude Toronto newspaper that has denied the Holocaust, praised Adolf Hitler and derided Jews, Muslims, women and the LGBT community. Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, who oversees Canada Post, made the decision less than two months
Moscow (dpa) – Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his backing to Turkish and Israeli efforts to reconcile after nearly six years of frosty relations, as Moscow appeared to be warming its own ties to the Israelis despite being a staunch ally of Iran and Syria. “The fewer problems between governments, the better,” Putin said after
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu, addressing the AJC Global Forum, spoke emphatically about U.S.-Mexican relations. “The Mexican-U.S. alliance is unwavering. It has deep, robust roots, and is mature enough to endure any political juncture,” said Massieu. Referring to comments made during the current U.S. political campaign, Massieu said “we cannot dismiss
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International, USA“What happens when idealism becomes power?” –Todd Salovey By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California–When we look at history with the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to dismiss how dire a situation really was. After all, we won. But the storyteller’s art is to bring us back to that moment when all was nearly lost and
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Eric George Tauber, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented its inaugural Campus Courage Award to Winston Shi of Stanford University and Milan Chatterjee of UCLA. The award honors students who have demonstrated unusual courage and moral clarity in standing up to anti-Semitism and the BDS movement. “Winston Shi and Milan Chatterjee are shining examples
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