Middle East

United Hatzalah adds midwives to emergency service

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – As of July 1st, United Hatzalah of Israel introduced a new division of services that will now dispatch trained midwives and OB-GYN nurses to incidents of  unexpected home births. Midwives and nurses who have joined the program will now be dispatched by United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center to assist birthing mothers

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jennifer Meltzer awarded Sheva Leadership Fellowship

SAN DIEGO — Jennifer Meltzer, Program Coordinator for the Lawrence Family JCC’s Neirman Preschool, has just been awarded a Sheva Leadership Institute Fellowship. Meltzer will join a cohort of 31 fellows from Early Childhood Education programs at JCCs throughout North America. This important honor for outstanding educators involves a three-year commitment, during which there will

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

Holocaust Survivor’s daughter leads StandWithUs

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14.  The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 29, 2018 (3 items)

JCC Association of North America gratified by conviction of Israeli who made multiple bomb threats A Tel Aviv District Court convicted 19-year-old Michael Ron David Kadar, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Thursday on multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, for the hundreds of bomb threats he made against Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the United States

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Four San Diego- Israel academic projects detailed

SAN DIEGO — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative brings together professors and researchers in Israel and San Diego for joint projects. Recently the organization named in honor of the late philanthropist and San Diego Jewish community leader Murray Galinson listed four of these projects in an email advisory. SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rigged election makes Erdogan an absolute dictator

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The reelection of Turkey’s President Erdogan, falsely considered to be free, fair, and representative of the will of the majority of the Turkish population, has dire implications both domestic and foreign. Supporters of Erdogan suggest that the elections only reinforce the democratic nature of the country and that critics

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 28, 2018 (10 items)

Polish mayors pledge themselves against anti- Semitism Mayors of Polish cities, attending the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) Central Europe conference in Warsaw on combating hate, have issued a joint statement urging implementation of a policy of “zero tolerance for prejudice, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.” The statement, signed by the mayors of Bialystok, Gdańsk, Poznań, and Warsaw,

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 27, 2018 (10 Items)

Poland revises its law on Holocaust responsibility The American Jewish Committee has welcomed the action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law. “As long-time friends of Poland, correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish

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

How APN will analyze Trump’s Mideast peace plan

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Tuesday released a new policy paper that provides guidelines to assess the prospects for success of an impending Trump administration plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. “We are gravely concerned that the Trump peace plan will exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than move it toward resolution.

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 26, 2018 (5 Items)

Supreme Court’s 5-4 ‘Travel Ban’ decision saw Jewish justices in the minority In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order Number One which the administration describes as a ban of travel from countries which have insufficient vetting procedures against terrorists, and which opponents describe as a “Muslim ban,” as most

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

Jewish trivia quiz: Beatles in Israel

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Paul McCartney appeared on a Carpool Karaoke segment of the Late Late Show with James Corden, with the two driving around Liverpool while singing Beatles tunes. They also visited sites from Paul’s childhood, and put on a surprise concert in a local pub. McCartney has many Jewish connections, from working

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 25, 2018 (4 Items)

Israeli Reserve Duty to Earn Academic Credits The Knesset on Monday passed in its third and final reading a law that will provide two academic credits to students who serve a minimum of 14 annual days of reserve duty. The measure was a initiated by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), MK Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu),

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

Weighing Trump from an American- Israeli’s perspective

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy writing about the American President. Intellectual honesty requires the admission that there are some plusses among many minuses, or at least some aspects of his behavior that might merit praise, depending on one’s perspective. His recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his criticism of Palestinians compares

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA