Middle East

This Yom Ha’Atzmaut, I’m Talking to My First-Grader About Palestinians

By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he […]

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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

In Groundbreaking Step, Muslim Delegation Participates in 2022 March of the Living

By David Isaac (JNS) POLAND—A Muslim group including participants from across the Arab world took part for the first time in the International March of the Living, the annual 1.9-mile walk from the concentration camp at Auschwitz to the extermination camp of Birkenau in Poland to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The precedent-setting move

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International, Middle East

Freedom to Live

By Hillel Newman (Jewish Journal via JNS) Last Thursday, April 21, 2022, the eve of the second festival of Passover, the eve of “Good Friday” for Christians and during the Ramadan period for Muslims, a few demonstrators gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles. Watching, I asked myself how ignorant, misled or

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Middle East, Opinion, USA

Jewish National Fund-USA Philanthropic Giant, Inventor of the Implantable Defibrillator Remembered

(JNS) Jewish National Fund-USA mourns the passing of Dr. Morton “Mort” Mower, a legendary member of the organization’s King Solomon Society and World Chairman’s Council, who was also the inventor of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for congestive heart failure. “Dr. Mower loved Israel with a passion beyond words,” said Jewish

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Butterfly Project’ Fuses Holocaust Education and Israel Education, Raises Hope

By Daniela Ben Joseph SAN DIEGO — On the beautiful morning of April 10, The Butterfly Project in collaboration with the StandWithUs San Diego High School Department, held a Holocaust education program at the House of Israel. The International Village in Balboa Park where it is located, receives hundreds of visitors each weekend, making it the

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

Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: The Epicenter of Violence

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — There’s been a lot of mayhem lately at the Temple Mount (the summit of Mount Moriah) in Jerusalem, which is a magnet for religious Jews, especially during Passover. Because this year Passover, Easter, and the Muslim holiday of Ramadan coincided, more violence than usual has resulted. The current

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Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer

Solid Base of Support, But Points of Divergence in New Survey of Millennial Jews

(JNS) An American Jewish Committee survey of U.S. and Israeli Jewish millennials shows that Israel-Diaspora relations remain strong but also indicates points of divergence regarding what role Diaspora Jews should have in influencing Israeli policies, antisemitism in the United States and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first-ever parallel survey of Jews, ages 25 to 40, was

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Middle East, USA

Israel’s Mess

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel is currently in the midst of a mess. But, like others that Israelis have experienced, it is likely to be temporary. The context is made up of several major holidays, the month of Ramadan, plus Pesach, and several holidays around Easter. Those manage to heighten feelings that we

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion

After Persisting During Pandemic, Israeli Theater Can Now Share the Fruits of its Labor

By Toby Klein Greenwald (JNS) Raise Your Spirits Theatre released, on the morning of April 15, on the eve of Passover, the video (for women only) and audio recording (for everyone) of our latest biblical musical, “REBECCA! Mother of Two Dynasties.” It is a story of great faith, love, courage, and the hope of reconciliation

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Toby Klein Greenwald