Israeli bill would give favorable tax treatment to minority towns with high IDF enlistment rates A proposed bill in the Knesset aims to encourage minority enlistment in the IDF and national service by granting tax deductions to minority towns with a high enlistment rate. According to the explanatory section of the bill, which will […]
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has restored the United States to the position of honest broker – emphasis on “honest” – and taken a hatchet to a series of fantasies underlying the notion of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” Twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords ushered in radical, despotic, kleptocratic Palestinian self-government, the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from a farewell column written by Debra DeLee, the longtime president of Americans for Peace Now, upon her retirement. By Debra DeLee NEW YORK — … The targets of my rage are those who know right from wrong, yet have chosen wrong for personal or political expedience. My rage
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
Princeton Lyman, who helped organize airlift of Ethiopian Jews, is mourned Arthur Stark, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: The Conference of Presidents on Tuesday expressed its deep regret on the passing of the Hon. Princeton Lyman, who, as Deputy
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
The Israel Bible (Hebrew and English Edition) by Rabbi Tuly Weisz; Hardcover: 2212 pages; Publisher: Menorah Books; Bilingual edition (July 10, 2018); Language: Hebrew, English; ISBN-10: 1940516803; Cost: $44.00 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — In today’s world, there are all sorts of different types of commentaries on the Scriptures on a variety
Congressional Gold Medal honors memory of Anwar Sadat’s peace-making with Israel History was made in the US Senate when it unanimously passed a bill to honor former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the Congressional Gold Medal. S.266 is a bill, co-sponsored by 71 Senators, is a bipartisan legislation that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
Story and photos by Sheldon F. Merel SAN DIEGO — Hadassah presented Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik , a visiting Israeli Professor at San Diego State University, at its third annual event on Sunday, July 26. After Prof. Levin-Banchik’s speech , we heard from two guests about why they are offering $10,000 in matching funds to
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of our big mysteries is Donald Trump. Latest news is a report by his former lawyer that Trump ordered payment of silence money to two babes during the 2016 campaign. And assertions that he fathered a child with a cleaning women at his New York residence. For us, hints
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One day last week three young men (a doctor and two nurses working in an Israeli hospital) were on the beach in Haifa, a city known for its serious efforts at Jewish-Arab coexistence. They were approached by another man and asked if they were Arabs. They answered in the
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Middle EastBy Moshe Phillips PHILADELPHIA —Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, following up his March 18 New York Times (“Israel’s Self-Inflicted Wounds”) tirade against Israeli settlers and several other targets doubled down with a second op-ed in the Times on August 13 with an attack on Orthodox Jewish influence on Israeli politics (“Israel, This
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastUpdated August 27, 2018 A variety of Jewish groups issued statements mourning the death of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), who was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 2008 against then Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Texts of their statements follow. American Jewish Committee: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Senator John McCain.
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — American Jews are wondering what’s happened to Israel and why is it straying so far from its original principles, especially as evinced by the recently-passed Nation-State Law of the Jewish People. I wondered whether to write about this law and whether Jews in America even knew about it.
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAThis year’s fellows will research diverse topics at the Center for Jewish History The Center for Jewish History has welcomed a new cohort of fellows to spend the 2018-2019 academic year engaged in research. They will be working with the Center’s Partners’ archives on their original projects. Varying in their disciplinary and chronological scope, the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — One of the first things we encountered when we came to France was the prevalence of do-it-yourself (DIY) shops. Actually, shops would hardly be the right term, as they’re more something of an emporium. On that first visit Yigal thought he had died and gone to heaven. All there was
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Travel and Food