Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 16, 2018 (7 items)

Legislation would create fund for Palestinian-Israeli people-to-people partnerships Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) introduced the Palestinian Partnership Fund Act of 2018 (HR7060). This legislation would help create the conditions on the ground necessary for an eventual end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to facilitate and finance […]

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

2-State solution still the only one practicable

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the one-state solution is simply a non-starter. I also maintain that successive Israeli governments, irrespective of their political leanings, perpetuated the occupation. They created

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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 15, 2018 (3 items)

New device to monitor critical patients’ blood flow Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCH) have developed a new lifesaving monitoring technology called VitalMiner that predicts hemodynamic instability episodes in intensive care patients. Hemodynamic instability in blood pressure, particularly hypotension, is considered one

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Diversity of Israel’s support showcased at SWU gala

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An Egyptian-born Muslim who today calls himself a proud Zionist, an Ethiopian-Israeli who taught herself to sing as a way to relieve the stress of rocket attacks on her hometown of Sderot, and an 11-year-old girl whose answer to anti-Semitism was to become a strong supporter of Israel,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 14, 2018 (3 items)

Jewish TV commentator’s speech ‘postponed’ by Rutgers Lisa Daftari, a Jewish American of Iranian descent, had been invited by Rutgers University to give a speech on Tuesday, but now the appearance is “postponed”–and according to Daftari “cancelled”–by the university after Muslim students charged Daftari with Islamophobia. Daftari, who frequently appears as a commentator on Fox

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 12, 2018 (4 items)

Danes, Israelis, WJC celebrate 75th anniversary of Danish rescue of the Jews World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder took part Thursday in Denmark’s official ceremony commemorating 75 years since Danish Jewry were rescued from the Germans and their accessories and sent to safety in Sweden. In his address, Ambassador Lauder thanked Denmark for its

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 11, 2018 (6 items)

Jewish Federation of San Diego County responds to outbreaks of anti-Semitism Michael Jeser, chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, issued the following statement on Thursday: The past several days have been trying ones for Jewish communities around our state, our country, and the world. This week swastikas were discovered on

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International, Middle East, USA

The case of Laura Alqasem

By Daniel Sokatch SAN FRANCISCO  — I want to talk for a moment about Lara Alqasem. She’s the 22-year-old American who has been stuck at Ben Gurion Airport for nine days now. She arrived in Israel with a visa provided by the Israeli consulate in Miami. The Israeli government, however, refused to honor that visa

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu policies destructive to Israelis, Palestinians

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Much of what Israel and the Palestinians are experiencing today has befallen them under Netanyahu’s leadership. He believes that the Palestinians will always pose an existential threat to Israel, which led him to pursue domestic policies that dangerously undermined the country’s founding principles of freedom and equality. Concurrently, he

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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 10, 2018 (5 items)

$2 Million donation to National WWII Museum to further Holocaust education San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $2 million to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans for the development of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program, which will ensure public remembrance of the atrocities that led to the genocide of more than six million

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The Mideast Piece(!) Process

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “We can’t wait for a Palestinian messiah to come and make peace with us, because that won’t happen. And we can’t wait for the messiah who will give us a clear Jewish majority from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. We’re doing it ourselves. That’s Zionism.” These are the

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Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 8, 2018 (5 items)

Foster care system marred by discrimination based on faith, LGBTQ status The Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies reports that although foster care agencies in the United States are mandated to act in the best interest of the child, some undermine that objective by permitting discrimination against children and potential foster parents based on who

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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA