By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Today (May 14) has already been an historic day and it’s barely 9am here in California. Today truth trumped lies and virtue vanquished evil. Today the great Name of G-d was sanctified in His Chosen Land, in His Holy City, by His Chosen People. No, unfortunately, the Holy […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — This is an unprecedented moment for women – and women’s health. We are part of a sea change spurred by #MeToo, a seismic shift in what Americans will — and will no longer — tolerate. The #MeToo movement has brought to light the proliferation of sexual harassment and violence.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABEER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) –BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced that a research group led by Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz of the BGU Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, is developing a new molecule to treat cancer that inhibits cancer cell
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — On Monday, May 14, as the United States formally relocated its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a plethora of commentary from government officials, supporters, and opponents. Following are comments which reached the editor’s desk of San Diego Jewish World: THE WHITE HOUSE — President Trump kept his promise
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called for a “Day of Rage” to protest the opening of the American Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. “Days of Rage” actually date to the 2011 uprising in Bahrain and have been seen in Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Hawaii is suffering from the destruction wreaked by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano. Israel has its own volcano, Mount Bental, which last erupted about 50,000 years ago. The volcano is now a tourist site with spectacular views of the Hula Valley, Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The State of Israel marks the 70th anniversary of its official creation today, May 14. Blessed is our beloved historical homeland! In 1948, the United Nations was new, the thermal heat of the European Holocaust of the Jews still pressed, and the global Christian conscience was reeling from
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –There’s more tension in the air than usual in Israel these days. Three danger spots come particularly to mind: (1) Nakba anniversary; (2) the opening of the US embassy; (3) the beginning of Ramadan. Each of these increases the risk of terrorist attacks and should make us all very nervous.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When we were in Las Vegas last year, visiting our son and daughter-in-law, on one particular evening they were otherwise occupied. They made sure to seat us comfortably in the living room facing the large TV screen, handed us the remote control, and told us to find something on
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination. A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “Abu Mazen’s Jewish Problem” is the title of an article by Professor Shlomo Avineri in Ha’aretz (May 11, 2018). Avineri is one of the most significant political scientists in Israel with an enviable international reputation. He has also served as the director-general of Israel’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The anti-Jewish
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Aaron Burr is glacial; Alexander Hamilton is overwrought; King George has skinny legs and a hilarious voice; Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton’s deceived wife) is heartbroken and enraged. The unprecedented and prize-winning musical, Hamilton has been touring far and wide—I finally had the chance to see and hear it here
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Steve Kramer, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release)–The California Legislative Jewish Caucus on Monday commended Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. for including in his final budget proposal funds to maintain and restore the landmark Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Governor released his May Revise in the State Capitol Monday, updating his January proposal with revenue totals from the
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Jewish History, USA