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Charting academia’s movement to isolate Israel

By Roberta P. Seid/JNS.org While the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has officially hit America’s scholarly associations over the last two years, even considering academic boycotts is a dramatic rupture with the past. In 2005, the prestigious American Association of University Professors (AAUP) wrote that it “condemned any such boycotts as prima facie […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish news briefs: January 29, 2015

Israel mourns soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel on Thursday mourned Staff Sgt. Dor Chaim Nini, 20, and Maj. Yochai Kalangel, 25, the two soldiers killed in Wednesday’s Hezbollah attack on northern Israel. Kalangel, a company commander in the Givati Brigade, traveled north from his home near Jerusalem on Tuesday evening,

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International, Middle East, USA

Jewish museum to offer free admission in February

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release)–The National Museum of American Jewish History is pleased to announce that it will be offering free admission to all visitors throughout the month of February. Due to the support of an anonymous donor, the Museum is able to offer this benefit in celebration of a seven-year loan extension for the iconic

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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Surprise attack near Lebanon border kills 2 IDF soldiers

By Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Two IDF soldiers were killed and seven were injured Wednesday, Jan. 28, in a terror missile attack that occurred around noon, near Mt. Dov close the Israel’s’ northern border. The fatalities were Major Yohai Kalangel, 25 years old, from Gush-Etzion and Staff Sergeant Dor Nini, 20 years old from Shtulim.

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Middle East, USA

Jewish news briefs: January 28, 2015

Netanyahu: Israel ‘must speak our mind about the dangers to our people’ (JNS.org) Against the backdrop of the Obama administration’s opposition to his upcoming address before Congress on the Iranian nuclear program and radical Islam, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that Israel “must speak out” against the threats it

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Rubio: Obama policies on Iran, Cuba are failures

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) criticized the Obama’s administration’s negotiation strategies toward Iran and Cuba; said conditions do not exist for the two-state solution sought by the administration for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and called for giving  returning military veterans college credits for what they learned

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Community colleges parlay in Sacramento

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bernie Rhinerson, a member of the San Diego Community College Board, attended a legislative conference in Sacramento last weekend in his capacity as chair of the Community Colleges League of California’s advisory committee on legislation. He moderated a Town Hall meeting with Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego)

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Auschwitz liberation resolution is a bipartisan matter

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Separate resolutions commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz have been introduced in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Statements have been made as well by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-Maryland.) and Mark

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International, Jewish History, USA

Jewish news briefs: January 27, 2015

Leaders gather to commemorate Auschwitz 70th anniversary of liberation (JNS.org) More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders are gathering at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the period, as part of International Holocaust

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Blinken explains Obama’s policy on Iran sanctions

Editor’s Note:  Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, a member of the Jewish community, outlined the Obama administration’s positions on Iran sanctions at a meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.  Following is a transcript provided by the U.S. State Department WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Good morning, Chairman Shelby,

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Middle East, USA

‘Myself Our Israel’: put them together and vote

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Offering Diaspora Jewry the chance to directly impact upon issues relating to Israel and the broader Jewish world, elections are now underway for the US delegation to the 37th World Zionist Congress.  Members of the American Jewish community are encouraged to register and vote. “This election is a unique opportunity for American

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Middle East, USA

What’s really deflated? Obama’s foreign policy!

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — For many of us who happen to be Tom Brady football fans, we read the story about Brady’s alleged deflated football. For those of you unfamiliar with what practical difference this all makes, bear in mind that an under-inflated ball, the legend goes, is easier to

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