BNEI BRAK, Israel (Press Release) — A few months ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Raphael Elihav Nachshoni was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Hashomer Street in Bnei Brak while he was on his way to respond to a medical emergency. Elihav was critically injured and came very close to death. The doctors who received […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Want to know why Israelis have little patience for Jewish Democrats? First, none of their leaders accepted the invitation to attend the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. Second, Bernie Sanders just agreed with Hamas that they have the right to return to Israel, which would spell
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USASACRAMENTO, California (Press Release)– Amidst disturbing spikes in hate rhetoric and anti-Semitism, the State Assembly on Tuesday will consider a resolution by Assemblymember Marc Levine and the California Legislative Jewish Caucus to renew California’s commitment to Holocaust education and urge Poland to abandon a gag rule that facilitates revisionist history. Assembly Joint Resolution 35 calls
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –When Ronald Reagan proposed the “Zero-Zero Option” for no intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the pundits – and the Europeans – said, “The Russians will never agree to that.” They demanded that Reagan put forward what the Russians could accept – or not aggravate the Russians by putting U.S. Pershing missiles
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
© Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — I took four books with 1939-1942 hooks on our Germany-Prague-Vienna trip, more than I usually take, and no New Yorker. The recent article by Alex Ross, “How American Racism Influenced Hitler,” was an almost take it along, but it’s on line. My wife gave me the usual caring
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International, Jewish History, Oliver PollakBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As befits an English woman living abroad, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on television, and reveled in the pomp and circumstance of each shot and every angle. I loved the sight of the beautiful mixed-race bride, her dress, the bridesmaids and page-boys, the various
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania (Press Release) — Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has issued a statement mourning the passing of Professor Bernard Lewis who died on May 19th in Voorhees, New Jersey at 101. Lewis was born in London, and served in the British army in World War II. He devoted his entire career to
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) on Thursday applauded the introduction of bipartisan legislation to help tackle the rising anti-Semitism plaguing U.S. schools. While anti-Semitism is on the rise across the U.S., the problem is particularly rampant on college campuses. “The spike in anti-Semitic incidents
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USABy Joyce Craig and Michele Gendelman LOS ANGELES — The SJP/BDS disruption of the May 17, 2018 meeting of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) was intolerable, and those responsible deserve the strongest condemnation: the SJP and pro-BDS anti-Zionist students violated the First Amendment rights of the attendees, drowned out any attempts at response by using the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for authorizing a total of $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation and continued authorization of up to $50 million for U.S.-Israel counter-tunnel cooperation in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release). — Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Kay Granger (R-TX), and Marc Veasey (D-TX), co-chairs of the House Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, were joined by 113 bipartisan Taskforce members in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to quickly
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International, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Alan Dershowitz was in Israel last week to attend the opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem. As part of his trip, he visited the United Hatzalah headquarters in Jerusalem, an organization whose international board he sits on. Dershowitz isn’t the type of person who typically rides motorcycles. Yet, on
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Editor’s Note: This is the twelfth in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 By Donald H.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There was pomp and ceremony on Jerusalem Day, celebrated here according to the Hebrew calendar, followed by more pomp and ceremony for the opening the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Some days later were the lesser ceremonies for the new Embassies of Guatemala and Paraguay. The government also decided on major
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East