International

Neo- Nazi posters spring up on college campuses

DURHAM, North Carolina (Press Release)  – – StandWithUs is outraged at white supremacist flyers found at Duke University and throughout downtown Durham, North Carolina, explicitly targeting Jews and Zionists. Jen Weintraub, Southern Campus Coordinator, commented that, “we are seeing an increase in such hateful displays on college campuses and elsewhere. As someone with family who survived the […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Albania Must Choose Between the EU and Turkey

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — The ‘Sultan’ of an illusionary Ottoman Empire—Turkey’s President Erdogan—is pressuring submissive politicians throughout the Balkan countries to do his bidding to restore the glory of the Ottoman period. For Erdogan, this is not simply an unfulfilled quest; he has been targeting the Balkans for the past

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Alon Ben-Meir, International

Real Tasmanian Devil unlike Warner Bros’ ‘Tazzy’

  Editor’s Note: This is the ninth 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 By Donald H. Harrison

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Donald H. Harrison, International, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Art of Yiddish children’s books on exhibit

AMHERST, Massachusetts (Press Release) – The visiting exhibit Through the Yiddish Looking Glass: The Art of Yiddish Children’s Literature is on view at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. The exhibit will be at the Center’s Brechner Gallery through Fall 2018. Through the Yiddish Looking Glass features Yiddish children’s book illustrations, created by artists who

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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Yad Vashem condemns Holocaust speech by Abbas

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Yad Vashem, the  World Holocaust Remembrance Center, on Wednesday condemned a speech by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestine Authority, about the Holocaust.  Following is the statement from Yad Vashem: In his address on Monday, 30 April 2018, to the Palestinian National Council, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas,

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Jewish History, Middle East

EU should not permit Turkey to become a member

By Gilles Pargneaux, Alon Ben-Meir, and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — The summit held in Ankara on April 4 among Putin, Erdogan, and Rouhani provides an eye-opening depiction of the rapidly changing discourse of 2018’s geostrategic international rivalry. The Syrian conflict, the center of global attention for more than seven years, is now in the

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East

Fears of war in the Israeli air

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — People in the know tell us that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech the other day about Iran’s nuclear ambitions was more of a performance than an evidence-based argument. Though the coup of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency that brought the data to Israel is a remarkable achievement, some experts aren’t

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Middle East

Natalie Portman is a fine actress, but …

First of two articles By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Lately, it seems as though Natalie Portman has transformed herself into a human lightning rod. She created a storm of controversy and gave the Palestinians in Gaza far more respectability than they deserved by canceling plans to receive a prestigious Genesis Award

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Diaspora criticism better than no engagement with Israel

By Kenneth Bob NEW YORK — As a student at the University of California at Berkeley in the post-Six Day War period, our Radical Jewish Union supported much of the left’s US domestic and foreign policy agenda. On the Israeli-Palestinian situation we diverged from both the New Left and the organized Jewish community, stating in our

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International, Middle East, USA