LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –The Gotthelf Art Gallery, part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Cultures, located at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, is proud to announce its new installation, “Eye Connect: Our Global Jewish World”–a photographic show featuring the work of artists near and far as they capture images of Jewish […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) – It doesn’t happen very often that an EMT can be called to one medical emergency and save someone involved in another that takes place at the same location. That is exactly what happened to EMT Aaron Lopiansky last Friday. Lopiansky was making final preparations for Shabbat when the United Hatzalah dispatch
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — My week began with the stranger who walked into the local hairdresser’s where I was sitting and asked if the car parked further along the road was mine. It was. “Well, I’ve caused some damage to the windscreen,” he informed me. In the process of cutting branches off
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Who is the real Donald Trump? Who the hell knows? His responses to questions from picked journalists at the highly staged “press conference” with Benyamin Netanyahu left the impression of a man who was not focused. He wandered around the subjects asked, managed to repeat his doubtful assertions about the
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Middle East, USAHardly historical bedfellows, Saudi Arabia and Israel both lashed out at Iran on Sunday – signalling a growing alignment in their interests. At the Munich Security Conference, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman slammed the Iran nuclear deal. “The Iranian deal…it’s copy paste what we had with North Korea. And we see the results in North
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Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — Israelis had been waiting with bated breath for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s initial meeting with President Donald Trump on February 15. All sorts of fantasies were dreamed up by “Land of Israel” (right wing) advocates, as if the new president were an ultra-Zionist. Left wing “peace” advocates, on the other
Speaking at Munich security meeting, FM Zarif says Islamic Republic proposes discourse ‘only with countries we call brothers in Islam’ By Times of Israel staff Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking at the53rd Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, February 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Christof Stache) Iran’s foreign minister on Sunday
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Behind the scenes, Israel intelligence experts are worried about the consequences of the leaks coming from the US National Security Council and other American intelligence agencies. Israel shares a great deal of covert information with the United States some of which goes through intelligence sources to the National Security
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International, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed his meeting with President Donald Trump this week as “historic”, declaring the beginning of a “new age” in US-Israel relations. The Prime Minister spoke with Fox News” Sean Hannity on Thursday, a day after his first meeting with the president since the inauguration less than a month ago. In the
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Middle East, USAAvraham Burg, a former Jewish Agency chairman and Knesset Member who once served as Speaker of the Knesset, met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday. According to the official PA news agency Wafa, Abbas updated Burg on the difficult situation of the Palestinian Arabs and said that “2017 will mark the
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Middle EastA dormitory built in the West Bank settlement of Beit El with funds donated by David Friedman has an outstanding demolition order against it By Times of Israel staff A lawyer looks over a map of Beit El prior to a High Court hearing in 2012 (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90) David Friedman, US President Donald Trump’s pick
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Middle East, USANetanyahu says Arab states also threatened by Iranian nuclear ambitions but they ‘whisper things in the dark’ By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, February 16, 2017 (Screen capture: Fox News) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he is speaking up on behalf of the whole
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAGallup poll: 71% of Americans view Israel favorably (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Although an increasing number of Americans oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, a new Gallup poll shows the U.S. public is divided over that issue. Currently, 45 percent of Americans say they support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised President Trump for backing off from support of the creation of a Palestinian Arab state, affirming in his joint press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is not seeking to impose any solution, including establishing a Palestinian state,
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