WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Dana W. White provided the following readout: Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis met today with Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman to discuss mutual security issues, including Iranian malign influence and destabilizing affects in the region.Secretary Mattis and Minister Lieberman reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S. – […]
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC), a wall-to-wall coalition of Modern Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist communal leaders and organizations, strongly opposes the proposed conversion bill currently under consideration by the Israeli government. J-REC has long believed that the unofficial monopoly enjoyed by the Chief Rabbinate on matters of personal status,
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Representatives Peter Roskam (R-IL), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Kay Granger (R-TX), and Marc Veasey (D-TX), the co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, issued the following joint statement on a recent report by the Kantor Center for the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAARAVA JUNCTION, Israel (Press Release)–Nine teenagers, eight of them girls, were drowned in a flash flood near Arava Junction in Israel’s Negev Desert. Another two youths were lightly injured, and evacuated to Saroka Hospital in Beer-Sheva. Thirteen were unharmed and one girl was missing, according to Magen David Adam. Eitan Shlomo, an emergency medical
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, congratulated Mike Pompeo on his swearing-in as Secretary of State today. The letter from AJC CEO David Harris to Secretary Pompeo follows: As longtime admirers and supporters of the State Department’s defense of American interests and values across the globe,
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International, Middle East, USA
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Press Release)–The Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center is seeking International Criminal Court action against Hamas over the terrorist group’s use of children as human shields in the riots that have taken place over the past month on the Israel-Gaza Strip border. The lawsuit is based on a clause in the Rome Statute, the
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International, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — President Trump’s characterization of the US attack on specific Syrian chemical storage and research facilities as “mission accomplished” is technically accurate, as the intended targets were in fact destroyed. But declaring mission accomplished in the context of the continuing unfolding tragedy being inflicted on the Syrian people is cynical
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Britain’s Jewish leadership met with Jeremy Corbyn, the man who is leading a Labour Party that is drenched in unbridled anti-Semitism, on April 24th and came away “disappointed,” calling the two hour meeting a “missed opportunity.” Their requests were straightforward. They wanted a fixed timetable to deal with the numerous anti-Semitism cases within the
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — “The Dangers of Failing Middle East States,” by Kobi Michael and Yoel Guzansky is an insightful item that describes the spread of failed states, especially among Muslim-majority countries, and applies the lesson to what much of the world aspires to create for Palestinians. You can read it here. A failed state
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–StandWithUs, an Israeli advocacy group headquartered here, is protesting actions at New York University and George Washington University, respectively in New York and Washington, as both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. Fifty-one NYU student organizations on April 9 co-signed a joint statement pledging to boycott Israeli goods, Israeli academic institutions and conferences, and numerous pro-Israel outside
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Sigalit, 40, and Nathan Drassinover, 53, married in 2016, were told they could never have a child together. Sigalit was diagnosed with a chronic gynecological condition in her 20’s, “premature ovarian failure” that typically causes loss of normal ovarian function before age 40 resulting in infertility. Sigalit had suffered for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – A new method for early and accurate breast cancer screening has been developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, using commercially available technology. The researchers were able to isolate relevant data to more accurately identify breast cancer biomarkers using two different electronic nose
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) ─As thousands of people from across the world celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, Jewish National Fund-USA–the organization whose hundreds of millions of trees created the lush green terrain and forests of the Jewish nation and today is developing its north and south–is proud to announce that over 600,000 donors
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This contentious little country could not get through its Memorial Day and its 70th Anniversary Independence Day without political squabbles that qualify for the label of noisome, i.e., stinky. The media of Memorial Day were marked, as is usual, by stories about young people cut down before they could demonstrate
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East