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Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 28, 2018 (5 items)

December 28, 2018

U.S. State Department supports Israel’s military action against Iranian forces in Syria The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Thursday: “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Iranian regional actions that endanger Israeli national security and the safety of the Israeli people. Iranian support of and supply to terrorist […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Zionism and the pushke ladies

December 27, 2018

By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — The pushke in my grandma’s kitchen, blue and white, with Hebrew lettering, sat in the corner of the counter. It was not remarkable; I saw the same one or similar ones in the houses of most of my relatives. In those days, in the infancy of the State of

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

LeBron James has much to learn about Jews

December 27, 2018

–First in a series– By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The “secret” is out. According to the bigots, the Jews control the world! We own the media! Politicians do our bidding! The Jews “control” Wall Street! Have you heard about the old joke concerning two Jews who were dining at a Vienna

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Sports & Competitions, USA

Vegan lifestyle promotes non- violence

December 27, 2018

By Jeffrey Cohan PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Acts of shocking violence stained 2018, from the beginning of the year to the end. To recall just a few, there was the mass murder of students at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL; the mass murder of Jews at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; and, closer

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The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA

Why U.S. Jews feel alienated from Israel

December 26, 2018

By Rabbi Yotav Eliach LAWRENCE, New York — The very sad truth is that the vast part of American Jewry that has willfully decided not take advantage of the Religious freedoms offered by the USA, and instead decided not to educate their children and now grandchildren in any shape or form to be Jewish, sits

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Jewish Religion, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 26, 2018 (3 items)

December 26, 2018

Knesset passes law forbidding convicted terrorists from being released from prison early The Knesset passed a law on Tuesday night that will prevent the early release of convicted terrorists serving sentences in prison. The legislation, proposed by MKs Anat Berko (Likud) and Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu), will deny terrorists the ability to be released after

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Who will oppose Netanyahu in April 9 election?

December 25, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The day after it was announced that Israelis will go to the polls on April 9, a headline in the Times of Israel read: “Early election timing likely more to do with graft-dodging than draft-dodging.” Though the formal reason for holding the election ahead of time was that the coalition

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Middle East

Most Israelis indifferent to secular New Year

December 25, 2018

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The annual debate in Israel about the placement of Christmas trees in malls or hotels – this year in Ashdod – shouldn`t fool anyone. For most Israeli Jews, the holiday season is celebrated in the Hebrew month of Tishrei, not in December. For a significant majority of Israeli Jews (78%), December

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

The making of a peace activist

December 25, 2018

By Debra Shushan, PhD WASHINGTON, D.C.. — As part of a group of non-Israeli academics assembled by Tel Aviv University, I visited the Temple Mount in July 2017. On the next day, two Israeli border police officers were shot there in a terror attack. I had the opportunity to make a condolence visit to Hurfeish,

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Middle East, USA

Some in Israel consider the term ‘Reform’ an insult

December 24, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A court of law in Israel may soon have to decide whether to call someone Reform is an insult. Adina Bar Shalom – the daughter of the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, the sister of the current incumbent of that office and the wife of a prominent Tel

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 24, 2018 (3 items)

December 24, 2018

DonorBox removes BDS funding campaign from its site Shurat HaDin announced it has “achieved another important legal victory against the BDS movement as we finish the year! We managed to shut down a vital crowdfunding channel for the central boycott organization, the BDS National Committee (BNC), located in Ramallah. Last week, we sent urgent cease

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

A glimpse into Arab life in Israel

December 23, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — About 21 percent of Israel’s population is Arab, and about 65 percent of its murders occur within the Arab population. Some 96 percent of the Arab population is Muslim, and only 4 percent Christian. Christians have, for the most part left, with some of those remaining having housing and education

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Anti- Semitism on campus ~ the Jewish response

December 23, 2018

By H. Applebaum -Second in a Series- SAN DIEGO — If you happen to be Jewish, it’s not just the big things like having to walk by the anti-Israel ‘Apartheid Wall’ every year, or the burning of the Israeli flag, or having the mayor of Jerusalem shouted down as the university chancellor cites freedom of speech.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Why Abbas disbanded the Palestinian parliament

December 23, 2018

By Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch (From Palestinian Media Watch) JERUSALEM — After 12 years, during which the Palestinian Parliament (Legislative Council, PLC) has not met, Mahmoud Abbas suddenly announced on Saturday, that the Palestinian Constitutional Court had dissolved the PA parliament: Abbas: “The [PA] Parliament (Legislative Council), which has not been active for 12

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Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 28, 2018 (5 items)

Zionism and the pushke ladies

LeBron James has much to learn about Jews

Vegan lifestyle promotes non- violence

Why U.S. Jews feel alienated from Israel

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 26, 2018 (3 items)

Who will oppose Netanyahu in April 9 election?

Most Israelis indifferent to secular New Year

The making of a peace activist

Some in Israel consider the term ‘Reform’ an insult

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 24, 2018 (3 items)

A glimpse into Arab life in Israel

Anti- Semitism on campus ~ the Jewish response

Why Abbas disbanded the Palestinian parliament

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