JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has released its groundbreaking surveys of the attitudes of American and Israeli Jews, concluded ahead of the opening of the AJC Global Forum in Jerusalem. Many of the identical questions are used in both surveys, allowing a basis for comparison. The surveys reveal sharp differences of […]
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Saturday, June 9. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Sweden’s Per Ahlmark mourned by
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Many American Jews are unaware of the extent of antisemitism on college campuses, or the destructive force of the BDS movement. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions is the most well-known tool of the delegitimization campaign. It is composed of a loosely organized group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals who pressure
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Steve Kramer, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com on Friday, June 8. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Robert S. Langer is
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
HADASSAH-NEURIM, Israel (Press Release) — “Life altering.” When Los Alamos, NM resident Andi Kron says these words, she says they apply to the teens she and her husband Charles Thorn have enabled to visit Ethiopia this past March – and to them as well. Kron, a cartographer and Thorn, an engineer, volunteer three months
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodLOS ANGELES (Press Release) – The Simon Wiesenthal Center (“Center”), a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, devoted to the memory of the 6-million Jewish victims murdered in the Nazi Holocaust, denounced Hamas’ intention to dress up Friday’s Gaza border-riot participants as concentration camp victims. “We urge major international media outlets to reject this macabre and hideous ploy to defame the memory of the victims murdered in the Nazi genocide,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier, the Center’s
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
LONDON (Press Release)–The Lawfare Project and UK Lawyers for Israel on Wednesday filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The complaint outlines ways in which some of MAP’s annual income of £5.4 million may have been spent for political propaganda rather than for its stated purpose of providing medical
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International, Middle EastBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Prolonged stress, such as that experienced during military conflict, can have an adverse impact on sperm quality, according to a new study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The study, which was presented last week at the International Summit on
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala this week caused a serious humanitarian crisis, following which, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered humanitarian aid to the President of Guatemala Jimmy Morales. On Thursday morning, the Israeli delegation, including doctors, nurses and a Paramedic took off to Guatemala. “I am proud to be
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International, Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Chicago natives Devorah ‘Doris’ Levitz, 91, and Norman Levitz, 93, made Aliyah Wednesday at the Nefesh B’Nefesh office in Jerusalem. The couple has one son, Ephraim, living in Israel, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. From the time their son made Aliyah 40 years ago, Devorah and Norman have come to
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The sitting Israeli Knesset has 24 MKs of Zionist Union, which is basically the Labor Party plus Tzipi Livni and a few associates, and 5 MKs of Meretz. That’s the parliamentary representation of the Jewish left. The Labor Party, in one manifestation or another, has not led an Israeli government
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Researchers at Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel have identified “natural killer cells” as a key component in answering the perplexing question as to why each subsequent pregnancy is easier and healthier than the first, according to Ellen Hershkin, President, Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization in America, Inc. (HWZOA). The study results, published
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—The Israeli-American Coalition for Action (IAC for Action) has named Jonathan C. Harris as its executive director. Harris will bring a deep expertise of Israel and Middle East policy—along with significant advocacy and lobbying experience in Washington, D.C.—to his role leading the IAC for Action team and implementing its advocacy agenda. Previously,
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Middle East, USA
By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is already militarily involved in Yemen, with special forces targeting al-Qaeda and Islamic State operatives who are then attacked by American drones. Thus far, however, it has stayed mostly outside the Yemeni civil war, in which Iranian-backed Houthi forces are fighting the Saudi-UAE-supported Yemeni government, although there are reports that
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA