By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –The statement in my last column that Israel tripled the size of East Jerusalem when it reunited the city in 1967 was a serious understatement. Actually, the Israeli geographers, who, they thought, were drawing the frontier of a state and not just its capital city, enlarged the area […]
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– More than 86% of the news photographs in the Israeli newspapers are archive photos. This is the result of a new and original study that was carried out at the University of Haifa for its Second Photojournalism Conference, “Photojournalism: From Hard to Soft News?” which took place at the University on
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Oceanside Museum of Art …. Photo: OMA _____________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison OCEANSIDE, California—The Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus is best known for the “New Colossus,” a poem that is engraved onto the base of the Statue of Liberty. She expressed the promise that America held for immigrants in 1876, the American centennial year
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Our Graduation in June 1959 took place on a typical hot humid Philadelphia day. I remember the lengthy discussion of what we (the girls) should wear under our graduation gowns, and I think the consensus was – full length slips. And, white heels for sure. There were so many
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Two recent newspaper articles about climate change in the far distant future, say 2500 or so, (titled, respectively, “How much more proof is needed for people to act?” and “Ignoring the future — the psychology of denial”) emphasized the importance of facing major issues that will have an
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WIZO International President Helena Glazer shakes hands with Mayor Alon Schuster of Sha’ar Hanegev, Israel, at ceremonies inaugurating new teachers rooms in two municipalities along the Gaza border. Photo by Kfir Sivan/Israel _____________________________________________________________ By Ulla Hadar SHA’AR HANEGEV, Israel–Eleven upgraded teachers rooms in this municipality and neighboring Eshkol municipality were inaugurated Dec. 21, making them
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–An estate agent told me the other day that many sellers miss opportunities because they don’t accept an early offer which is near enough to the asking price in the hope of getting more by hanging on. In most cases, more doesn’t happen and in the end the property is sold
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release)–A new poll shows that President Barack Obama, who has endured record-low levels of Israeli popularity for any American president, is regarded as pro-Palestinian by three- to-one ratio of Israelis. According to the poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Survey Research this month, only 13% of Israelis regard President Obama’s policy as
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Jewish Agency Director-General Moshe Vigdor was appointed Director-General of the Israel’s Board of Higher Education by Israel’s Minister of Education, and will be leaving the Jewish Agency in February. Since assuming his position as director-general in 2005, Vigdor oversaw the Jewish Agency’s strategic change, during which the organization underwent significant reform
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We see in the health care bills that passed the U.S. House and Senate yet another indication that policy making is, most of the time, incremental. For me, that is another endorsement of a finding that helped establish me as a political scientist. Long ago I published a number of items showing
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Most Orthodox Jews are individuals who wish to serve God in a particular way, often at great sacrifice. I respect them whether or not I agree with them. But there are at least three groups that, though in the diaspora at worst only annoying, are often a menace and worse in
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Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO–The story is told that sometime in the first half of the Twentieth Century, a New York music critic took his seat at Carnegie Hall for a concert of the NBC Orchestra. An elderly lady seated next to him asked, “That man on the podium, Mr. Toscanini, is he also supposed
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Wednesday concerning passage by the U.N. General Assembly of a resolution calling on Iran to improve its human rights record. “The United States welcomes the United Nations’ final passage of the resolution calling upon the Government of Iran to respect its human rights obligations
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are times in politics, and they may be most of the times, when it is best to do nothing. Long ago I learned that the essential rule in policy making is: Don’t make things worse. At about the same time, I heard that America is safest when Congress is
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