Middle East

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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Middle East, USA

$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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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

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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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

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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Middle East, USA

Old Israeli disputes simmer as new ones boil

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Evangelical Christian directs StandWithUs in San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination.  A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s

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

‘Abu Mazen’s Jewish problem’

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “Abu Mazen’s Jewish Problem” is the title of an article by Professor Shlomo Avineri in Ha’aretz (May 11, 2018). Avineri is one of the most significant political scientists in Israel with an enviable international reputation. He has also served as the director-general of Israel’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The anti-Jewish

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Middle East

Russia watches as Israel retaliates in Syria against Iran

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marched in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Immortal Regiment in memory of Russian fighters who died in World War II, Israel was getting ready to retaliate for an Iranian rocket attack on Israeli military units in the strategically sensitive Golan.

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA