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Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

March 29, 2018

RENO, Nevada (Press Release) – This year the State of Israel celebrates seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. To mark this occasion, the Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli women artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work that are grounded in the […]

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Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

March 29, 2018

PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) – “My son was a hero, not just on the last day of his life but throughout his life.” This is how Linda Schulman spoke of her son, georaphy teacher Scott Beigel, just five and a half weeks after he was murdered protecting students at the Parkland High School in

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jet ski ambulance rides the Sea of Galilee

March 29, 2018

EIN GEV, Israel (Press Release) — Every year during Pesach, hundreds of thousands of people visit the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and Magen David Adom is preparing accordingly by strengthening the forces in the area with an MDA Jet-Ski, which will be in operation from the beginning of the Pesach vacation in the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Political change most likely when incremental

March 28, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flurries swirling around this tiny country are uncertainties about its future. Some see our destiny dependent on reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. However, Palestinians have been saying no for more than 80 years, and are currently on the cusp of another civil war among who knows how

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

March 28, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) –Following a message from a professor on San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas’ (AMED) Facebook page calling the welcoming of pro-Israel students a ‘declaration of war,’ 60 organizations and many concerned citizens demanded an investigation. California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and SFSU President Leslie

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Waiting for the Gaza march

March 28, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Three young men crossed the border at Gaza and were found wandering on Israeli territory in the hope of being jailed here. They reckoned, so I heard a commentator explain, that life in an Israeli prison is better than the life they now have in ostensible freedom in Gaza.

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Middle East

Tel Aviv style beach parties set for 160 U.S. campuses

March 27, 2018

NEW YORK (Press Release) –This April, millions of college students across the country will engage with a coalition of pro-Israel organizations to mark the Jewish State’s 70th birthday with Tel Aviv beach party-style celebrations at more than 160 university campuses across the U.S. and Canada including San Diego State University and UC San Diego. The

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

Israel gets ready for Passover

March 26, 2018

By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — What’s it like to be in Israel where, according to a 2017 Jewish People Policy Institute survey, 97% of Israeli Jews host or participate in a Passover Seder? If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out “alter zachen” (‘old things’) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Pigeon droppings fertilized ancient Negev

March 25, 2018

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Pigeons played an important role in turning the Byzantine Negev into a flourishing region 1,500 years ago. This is the conclusion of a new study held at the Institute of Archeology at the University of Haifa that was published Monday in the prestigious journal PlosOne. The study, which concentrated on

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Palestinian terror, American mass shootings

March 25, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A Palestinian used his car as a weapon and drove into a cluster of soldiers alongside an IDF base in the West Bank. He killed two and injured two others. A few days later, a Palestinian stabbed a security guard in Jerusalem’s Old City. Those were the third, fourth, and

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

OpEd: Why Ronald Lauder is wrong about Israel

March 24, 2018

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Billionaire and philanthropist, Ronald Lauder, a regular and massive contributor to Jewish and Israeli charities, made the most bewildering statement in the New York Times: “…the Jewish democratic state faces two grave threats that I believe could endanger its very existence…The first threat is the possible demise of the two-state

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Middle East

Will there ever be a nation of Palestine?

March 21, 2018

JERUSALEM — Is this another occasion to sit shiva for the idea of a Palestinian state? Or yet another indication that the idea is well within the realm of dreamland, not to die, but not to achieve anything real? Several events qualify for the label of strategic, in the sense that they signal abject failure

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

San Francisco State professor wants Zionists excluded from campus; AMCHA organizes protests

March 21, 2018

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Within hours of San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong’s public apology to Jewish students and affirmation that “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” an SFSU professor shot back with a hateful and discriminatory message targeting Jewish and Zionist students. The message was posted on an official site of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Turkish plans to conquer Israel, Europe

March 21, 2018

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Less than a month ago, in advance of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, the Turkish daily Yeni Şafak, which is considered one of the mouthpieces of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), published an

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA

Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

Jet ski ambulance rides the Sea of Galilee

Political change most likely when incremental

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

Waiting for the Gaza march

Tel Aviv style beach parties set for 160 U.S. campuses

Israel gets ready for Passover

Pigeon droppings fertilized ancient Negev

Palestinian terror, American mass shootings

OpEd: Why Ronald Lauder is wrong about Israel

Will there ever be a nation of Palestine?

San Francisco State professor wants Zionists excluded from campus; AMCHA organizes protests

Turkish plans to conquer Israel, Europe

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