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Israel Suffers Worst Combat Losses Since October, Diplomatic Isolation

Published by Reuters UK By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Fadi Shana CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened. Intense fighting was under way both […]

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Flouting the Law Should Not Free ‘Palestine’ Defenders of Consequences

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Even harsh critics of U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik were stunned when she trumped “legal scholar” and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill over university policies that can translate into routine criminal laws. Stefanik herself missed a more compelling element that amounts to a serious criminal offense – “terroristic threats.” That

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Home in Israel or U.S.A.? A Couple’s Dilemma

This is a memoir of an American falling in love with a French man who is more traditional in his religious observance than she is.  They marry and live for a while in France, but Israel calls to him.  She wants to live in the familiar U.S. of A.  He wants his family to be raised as traditional Jews in Israel. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, USA

Nowhere Else I’d Rather Be: Santee-Trained Firefighter Volunteers in Israel During Wartime

By Dana Ben Kaplan SANTEE, California — This past September, I was contacted by the Emergency Volunteers Project (EVP) and asked if I would be available for another Israel firefighter training deployment, scheduled for October. I had been participating in these firefighter events in Israel for several years now (after retiring from the Santee Fire

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Israel, Opinion, San Diego County

New Billboards in San Diego Bring Attention to Dangers of Hamas

NEW YORK (Press Release) — JewBelong, a national nonprofit organization that fights antisemitism and makes Judaism accessible, last week put up three new billboards in San Diego reading, “Let’s be clear. Hamas is your problem too.” The new slogan is in response to the antisemitism sparked by the Israel-Hamas war, which led to a 400%

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Israel, San Diego County

Who Are the Houthis and Why Are They Messing With Israel?

By Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) I opened a video on X, formerly known as Twitter, and there’s a fellow in uniform with red beret and camo uniform screaming into a microphone. My Arabic being non-existent, I was glad for the simultaneous translation identifying the screamer as one Gen. Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi

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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Enough is Enough, Say Students Leaders and Israel Advocates

DENVER (Press Release) — Demonstrations outside Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global Conference for Israel November-December 3 appeared to feature supporters of Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in America, displaying placards of photos of the terror organization’s attacks on Israeli civilians accompanied by the text “Resistance by any means possible.” Protesters also defaced public property and etched

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Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Women’s Groups Distressingly Mum about Hamas Raping Israeli Women, Children

Upon reflecting on my work as an advocate for battered women, I realize what drives me is my memory of how Jewish women were once deemed utterly dispensable; they were loathed and discarded after gang rapes by their Nazi tormentors. What I saw last month in the Hamas attack on Israeli women was eerily reminiscent of those atrocities of yesteryear. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]

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Amy Neustein, Israel, Opinion, USA

Biden Could be the ‘Last Zionist President,’ Former Israeli Diplomat Says

By Jacob Kamaras DENVER — Joe Biden could be the “last Zionist president” of the United States, former Israeli diplomat Ido Aharoni Aronoff said in a session at the Jewish National Fund-USA Global Conference for Israel in Denver on Sunday. That is because Biden is “part of that generation that understands the time when Israel

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Israel, Jacob Kamaras, USA

San Diegans Support Beautified Bomb Shelters in the Gaza Envelope

SDJW Staff Report DENVER — Elyasaf Meira, the Israeli artist who beautifies Jewish National Fund-USA’s bomb shelters in the area known as the Gaza Envelope, was present at the JNF-USA Global Conference for Israel in Denver to work on live paintings. Philanthropists in San Diego and nationwide partner with JNF-USA for its bomb shelter beautification

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Israel, San Diego County, USA

Of Heroes and Leaders

By Doron Krakow What to make of a week? What to make of this one? It began with the grudging release of hostages from the clutches of Hamas. Slowly they emerged. Wide-eyed. Traumatized. Haunted. Nearly all of them women and children. They’d been released knowing that others, many from their own families, remained behind. Only

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Doron Krakow, Israel, Opinion, USA