Middle East

Erdogan says efforts to contest Turkish referendum are futile

Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday snuffed critics’ hopes that a referendum result to give his office more powers could be overturned, confirming that any attempts to annul the vote were futile. Opposition parties had filed petitions to annul the outcome of the referendum, which in preliminary counting saw 51.4 per […]

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International, Middle East

Movie review: ‘The Promise’ has real relevance

In the years around World War I, Turkey’s Ottoman government committed genocide against 1.5 million Christian minority Armenians, setting an example for Hitler to follow similar lines to exterminate European Jews. It’s a tragedy rarely observed in feature films but too important to ignore. It receives a powerful, overdue accounting in “The Promise,” a historical

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Poor editing undercuts Israeli cuisine film

In Search of Israeli Cuisine, a film by Roger Sherman, Menemsha Films, 2016; opening April 21 at Landmark’s Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Ave, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Good reporting can be sabotaged by haphazard editing, and that, sadly, is what happened to this film in which host Michael Solomonov, owner of

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Israeli school finds Nazi screensaver on computers

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, cops probe how memes of Hitler, concentration camps appeared on Petah Tikva school’s network By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of school computers (shironosov /iStock by Getty Images) Police are investigating how Nazi images appeared as screensavers on computers in a school in the central Israel city of Petah

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Child Refugees Selling Sex to pay Europe Entry Fee

Smugglers are forcing unaccompanied child refugees to sell their bodies in exchange for money to aid their traveling through Europe, a new report from Harvard University has claimed. There is a “growing epidemic of sexual exploitation and abuse of migrant children in Greece,” say the report’s co-authors, Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, at

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Middle East

Through a photography class, first exposure for Israeli, Palestinian kids

In the West Bank, coexistence program Roots makes for an improbable gathering of teens from Gush Etzion and nearby village Al Khader By Brett Kline The teenagers gather around their instructor Bruce as they begin their photography lesson. The group of 13 to 15-year olds, equal parts Jewish Israelis from local settlements and local Palestinians

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Middle East

U.S. decision to prosecute Pal. terrorists lauded

NEW YORK (Press Release)– ZOA President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America praises President Trump and Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) for bringing murder charges and issuing arrest warrants on Thursday (April 13), against two Palestinian Arab terrorists from the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA),

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Middle East, USA

Nanosatellite built by Israeli high-schoolers blasts into space

‘Duchifat-2,’ a joint venture by dozens of pupils from around the country, will study the lower thermosphere By Stuart Winer Participating high school students hold up the Duchifat-2 nanosatellite that was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2017. (Israel Space Agency/Roi Greenberg) A tiny satellite built by Israeli

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Gel-coated membrane repels water- borne viruses

SEDE BOQER, Israel (Press Release)– Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in water-scarce cities. Current membrane filtration methods require intensive energy to adequately remove pathogenic viruses without

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education