Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 21, 2018 (7 items)

58 organizations seek sanction of professor who refuses recommendation for Israel-bound student After a University of Michigan (U-M) professor agreed to write a recommendation for a student and then reneged when he realized it was for study in Israel, 58 organizations demanded that U-M President Schissel sanction all U-M professors who engage in that or […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Anti- Israel disruption at UCI under police probe

(c) Edwin Black IRVINE, California — Campus police at University of California, Irvine will in the near future refer anti-Israeli event disruptors of a May 3, 2018 pro-Israel event to Orange County prosecutors, according to a UCI spokesperson. Referral will occur, says the spokesperson, as soon as the campus police investigation concludes. If so, UCI

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Edwin Black, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israeli diplomat: Truth, peace under Palestinian attack

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Eitan Weiss, deputy chief of mission for the Israel Consulate General in Los Angeles, said during a lunch-time interview here on Thursday  that Israel’s Palestinian opponents neither want peace nor have any regard for the truth. Those pushing BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) against Israel “have no problems

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 17, 2018 (4 items)

Terrorist victim Ari Fuld mourned The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America had expressed its great sadness over the death of Ari Fuld zk”l, a U.S.-Israeli citizen who was killed over the weekend in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist. Fuld, 45, was attacked Sunday morning by a terrorist wielding a knife outside a shopping

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

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

World Jewish Congress condemns Neo-Nazi attack on Jewish restaurant The World Jewish Congress vehemently condemns the reprehensible antisemitic attack that took place recently on the sidelines of a neo-Nazi protest in the east German city of Chemnitz, in which masked assailants hurled rocks and bottles at a Jewish restaurant, injuring one person. “It is inconceivable

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

Netanyahu alienates Jews around the world

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “The State of Israel against the Jews” is the provocative title of an article in Friday’s Ha’aretz Magazine by Eva Illuz, professor of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and author of many important books and articles on current affairs. She bases her contention on the highly publicized encounters

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International, Middle East, USA

Failing economy dampens Turkey’s Balkan influence

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra   NEW YORK — As Turkey’s President Erdogan runs out of money, he is now, more than any time before, using religion to exploit the Balkans, especially the states that are more susceptible to Islamic influence. Bosnia is at the fore of Erdogan’s ambitious Islamic agenda, where he is

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East

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

Anne Frank Center releases open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg “We understand it’s not easy keeping 2 billion members happy, much less shouldering the weight for all the nasty things they might say to one another. We genuinely appreciate all the good social media can accomplish: the personal connections, the charity drives, the human compassion,

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

AJWS endorses global campaign to save the forests

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Nine of the world’s leading philanthropic foundations announced their intent to commit at least $459 million through 2022 to the protection, restoration and expansion of forests and lands worldwide and the recognition of indigenous peoples’ and traditional communities’ collective land rights and resource management. These are powerful and under-appreciated climate solutions and

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International, Middle East, The World We Share, USA