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Movies at sea enhance the cruise

July 26, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the 21st in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Russian Jews, American Jews in Israel

July 25, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There’s more than a million Russian-speaking Israelis, taking account of those born here minus those who have left for what seemed greener pastures. And certainly when taking account of those who came before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It’s a misnomer to call them Russians. Russian speakers is the

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 25, 2018 (6 items)

July 25, 2018

Lawfare Project moves against Holocaust denial posts on Facebook The Lawfare Project filed takedown notices this week against Facebook posts denying the Holocaust and containing anti-Semitic material, successfully leading to several posts being removed or blocked by Facebook in a number of countries. The Lawfare Project’s action followed controversial comments last week by Facebook’s CEO,

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

Israeli woman tells of saving Syrian lives

July 24, 2018

See the video Gal Lusky, an Israeli humanitarian worker who helps provide aid to Syrian refugees, has spent the better part of four years going undercover to give medical supplies and food to families across the border. Only recently did she reveal to the Syrians whose lives she has saved that she is an Israeli,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 24, 2018 (6 items)

July 24, 2018

AIPAC rallies citizen support for U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 On July 10, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in support of the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (S. 2497). This legislation is expected to come to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as Wednesday, July 25. This

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

Jewish trivia quiz: Marriage in Israel

July 23, 2018

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Protests are erupting in Israel and throughout the Jewish world as a result of the detention of a Conservative rabbi in Haifa by Israeli police, in response to a rabbinical court order. The Haifa Rabbinic Court charged the rabbi with “marrying those who are not eligible to be

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Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Pompeo slams Iranian kleptocracy

July 23, 2018

SIMI VALLEY, California (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed Iranian leadership for stealing from that nation’s people, trampling on their rights, and exporting similar abuses around the globe. The Secretary spoke Sunday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, then dialogued with former California governor Pete Wilson. The State Department provided this

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Middle East, USA

Politicians may bluster, but bureaucrats decide

July 22, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I am a political scientist biased in favor of politics. I see it as the essence of civilization. One of the hallmarks is the line attributed to Winston Churchill, that jaw jaw is better than war war. Verbal dispute is better than violence. And a corollary is that dispute followed

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Israel, Jordan team to save ‘White Helmet’ refugees

July 22, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Sunday: “The United States welcomes the safe evacuation of more than 400 members of the Syrian Civil Defense, otherwise known as the White Helmets, and their families from southwest Syria. We are glad that these ‎brave volunteers, who have saved thousands

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 20, 2018 (5 items)

July 20, 2018

Anger over arrest of Conservative rabbi for officiating at a non-Orthodox wedding On the very morning of the day he was to drive to Jerusalem to participate at the President’s residence on a panel on Jewish diversity and unity, Conservative Rabbi Dov “Dubi” Haiyun was awakened by police in Haifa to be questioned about officiating

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

Netanyahu campaigns for reelection by going hard right

July 20, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There’s no date for the next general election in Israel but the prime minister is already campaigning at full speed. Three most current instances come to mind, 1. He has promoted legislation, just passed, that will prove that he and his party are the only authentic custodians of the Zionist

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 19, 2018 (3 items)

July 19, 2018

Ben-Gurion University develops new anti-malware methodology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Malware Lab researchers have developed a new method to detect unknown, malicious emails that is more accurate than the most popular antivirus software products. Email messages are widely used by attackers to deliver dangerous content to a victim, such as attachments or links to malicious websites. “Existing email analysis solutions only analyze specific email elements using rule-based methods, and don’t analyze other important parts,” says Dr. Nir

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

Syrian fighting near Golan worrisome, but not overly

July 18, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The 250,000 Syrians heading toward the borders of Jordan and Israel are a small part of what’s been happening in the Middle East for several decades. It isn’t the equivalent of the population movements that occurred as the result of WW II and the end of colonialism that came along

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Suicide’s memoir indicts the Gur sect of Hassidim

July 18, 2018

Doing His Will (Osah Kirtzono) by Esti Weinstein, published in Hebrew by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2016. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM –The poor woman who wrote this book (and eventually committed suicide) was born into a specific sect, tantamount to a cult, of ultra-Orthodox Judaism known as the Gur Hassidim As a child and teenager the author

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Movies at sea enhance the cruise

Russian Jews, American Jews in Israel

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 25, 2018 (6 items)

Israeli woman tells of saving Syrian lives

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 24, 2018 (6 items)

Jewish trivia quiz: Marriage in Israel

Pompeo slams Iranian kleptocracy

Politicians may bluster, but bureaucrats decide

Israel, Jordan team to save ‘White Helmet’ refugees

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 20, 2018 (5 items)

Netanyahu campaigns for reelection by going hard right

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 19, 2018 (3 items)

Syrian fighting near Golan worrisome, but not overly

Suicide’s memoir indicts the Gur sect of Hassidim

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