“I’m not adding to the vitriol. My goal is to do my small part to help move the HRC away from that and into the effective, on-the-ground work that it was meant to do.” [SDJW staff]
Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, both far-right ideologues in Netanyahu’s cabinet, have never tried to hide their wish to exile the Palestinians from Gaza. In their thinking, such an expulsion of the Palestinian population would allow Israel to return to its biblical borders. Then they would rebuild Gaza solely with Jewish inhabitants. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]
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In 1912, he became a regular at the musical salon of Paul and Muriel Draper, who also nourished the musical talents of Igor Stravinski, Pablo Casals and others. After World War I, his concertizing was widely acclaimed in Spain and South America. He toured the world in the interwar years, moving to the Brentwood section of Los Angeles during World War II. He was naturalized as an American citizen in 1946. [SDJW staff]
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Published by Reuters UK By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed on Sunday to hold to account “any U.N. employee involved in acts of terror” after allegations that some refugee agency staffers were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. But Guterres implored governments to continue
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Published by RBC-Ukraine British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has proposed a long-term ceasefire plan to achieve peace in Gaza, according to the Financial Times. The plan will be utilized to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and for negotiations towards a permanent ceasefire, announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It includes a proposal
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Published by Reuters LONDON (Reuters) -Six European countries paused funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) on Saturday, following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland on Saturday joined the United States, Australia and Canada in
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Amit Mekel — the Los Angeles-based Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest and the first non-Jewish Israeli diplomat in this region — shared that “I feel an even deeper calling to openly share my personal journey at every event since the war’s onset.”[Israel Bonds Press Release]
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Recently, as I was traveling and looking for a shul in San Diego for a few weeks I found respite and much more than that at Ohr Shalom near Balboa Park – joy and inspiration, warmth and hospitality that energized me. [Noam Schimmel]
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The United States is suspending additional funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East temporarily as it reviews charges that 12 UNRWA employees took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel. “The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations,” stated Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman. [JNS]
“We take note of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) appropriate rejection of South Africa’s extreme demand for an Israeli ceasefire – which tacitly recognizes Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas and others in Gaza – as well as the ICJ’s call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. We are, however, disappointed by today’s International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) decision to issue a series of provisional measures against Israel, as it gives weight to South Africa’s preposterous claims.” [J7 press release]
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The anchors of the Festival were the excellent Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, its Music Director, Maestro Omer M. Wellber, its talented Concert Master, Nitai Zori, and Conductor-in-Residence David Sebba. One or more of them was present at nearly every event. [Steve Kramer]
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Published by Reuters By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, warning against what he called an alarming rise in antisemitism after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and efforts to minimize what happened that day. Biden, who launched the first U.S. national strategy to
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Published by Reuters UK By Stephanie van den Berg, Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi THE HAGUE/GAZA (Reuters) -The World Court ordered Israel on Friday to prevent acts of genocide against the Palestinians and do more to help civilians, although it stopped short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by South Africa. While the ruling denied
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During the Holocaust, there was not one but many instances of pogroms and mass murders like what occurred on Oct. 7th. The Holocaust was much bigger, more systematized, and cumulatively far more horrible than the massacre perpetrated by Hamas. [Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg]
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