Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA), announces that Naomi Adler, a distinguished leader in the nonprofit and Jewish communal sectors, has been named the organization’s new CEO. She will lead the country’s largest Jewish women’s organization, with nearly 300,000 members, donors and supporters and a professional staff of 200. [Hadassah News Release]
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), America’s unified alumni voice on issues of antisemitism, demonization of Israel, and bigotry, released the findings of a survey of Jewish college students and recent alums on campus antisemitism, conducted between March 25 and June 14, 2021. The survey results, compiled into a comprehensive report,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
As ever, the future is uncertain. However, as far as we can see, there seems no chance for a two state solution on our borders. But we can’t see too far into the future. The President of Palestine, West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas, is 85 years old. What comes next, with a civil war or not, is anyone’s guess. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D.]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
B’nai Brith Canada said it wants reassurance from the University of Victoria (UVic) that an upcoming course on anti-Semitism will not become a “forum for antisemitic views” because of its professor. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education
Mark Malyar, Ami Dadaon and Moran Samuel went into the Tokyo Paralympics with expectations of medaling, and they did not disappoint, netting four more medals for Israel over the weekend, bringing the country’s total so far to five. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions
The Israel Defense Forces conducted airstrikes against Hamas targets early on Sunday in response to incendiary balloon attacks and violent riots along the Gaza fence. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
After a number of delays as a result of Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. President Joe Biden managed to sit for two meetings at the White House on Friday morning. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, USA
While public school teachers and their unions demonstrated a shocking obstinacy during the ongoing pandemic regarding opening up of schools to in-person learning for America’s students, they seemed to have found the energy at the same time to continue their activism and advocacy for teaching children to hate themselves because of the color of their skin, distrust law enforcement, blame white supremacy for systemic racism and the victimhood of marginalized people of color, identify their gender fluidity, and a bucket full of other progressive notions that animate what now currently passes for public education. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole Friday. Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, had tried on 15 previous occasions to be released from the life sentence imposed five decades earlier. The vote on Friday by
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USA
A member of the U.S. House of Representatives is under fire for a tweet that compared coronavirus restrictions to the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History, USA
The Denver Police Department announced on Thursday that they have arrested the last suspect in the murder of a Jewish yeshivah student there. [JNS.org]
Fifth Suspect Arrested in Murder of Yeshiva Student Read More »
USA
A prosecutor in Argentina told Israel Hayom he will not stop trying to apprehend those responsible for the 1994 deadly bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, following news that one of the alleged terrorists was named Iran’s new interior minister. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History, Middle East
Published by Azer News By Vugar Khalilov The President of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), Jahangir Asgarov and Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan George Deek have discussed the cooperation in civil aviation between Azerbaijan and Israel in Baku, local media reported on August 25. Asgarov said that AZAL will resume the flights between the two countries after
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Middle East
Published by Reuters By Trevor Hunnicutt and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in White House talks on Friday that he was putting “diplomacy first” to try to rein in Iran’s nuclear program but if negotiations fail he would be prepared to turn to other unspecified options.
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