Middle East

$400 million donors honored at Israel’s U.S. Embassy

  WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release)– At the Israel Embassy event Monday night in Washington D.C. marking Israel’s 70th Independence Day, American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) donors, Howard and Lottie Marcus, were posthumously honored among the top 10 of 70 Americans who have made a uniquely valuable contribution to Israel and its alliance […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Four universities where Jewish students are at risk

SANTA CRUZ,  California (Press Release) – Students at Columbia University, New York University, Syracuse University and University of California Irvine are deploying a repeated and deliberate strategy to create a hostile climate for Jewish and Zionist students and, in turn, suppress any and all pro-Israel expression on campus. Today, more than 60 education and civil rights organizations

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Embassy move affirms nation that prefers life over death

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Erich Fromm wondered: How can we account for humankind’s capacity for cruelty and violence? Fromm, like the ethologist Konrad Lorenz, believed that violence is something we share with the animal world—especially when it comes to directing our anger against members of our own species. On the

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA

State Dept. protests Yemen’s treatment of Baha’i

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release) — The U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert issued the following statement on Monday, May 14. The United States is deeply concerned by the harassment and detention of Baha’is by the Houthis in Sana’a, Yemen. The Houthis have targeted the Baha’i community in inflammatory speech along with a wave of detentions,

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$1.15 million raised for Yemin Orde Youth Village

NEW YORK (Press Release) —  Friends of Yemin Orde announced that  $1.15 million has been raised for Yemin Orde Youth Village and Village Way Educational Initiatives at the May 8 Tikkun Ha’Lev Award international gala, co-chaired by Kimberly Taylor Hirschfeld and Jeffrey Hirschfeld o, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. Approximately 420 guests

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BGU develops new approach to fighting cancer

BEER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) –BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced that a research group led by Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz of the BGU Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, is developing a new molecule to treat cancer that inhibits cancer cell

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Comments abound on U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — On Monday, May 14, as the United States formally  relocated its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a plethora of commentary from government officials, supporters, and opponents.  Following are comments which reached the editor’s desk of San Diego Jewish World: THE WHITE HOUSE — President Trump kept his promise

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