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Study: Big breakfasts, small dinners for diabetics

March 16, 2015

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Our modern epidemic of obesity has led to an alarming rise in the incidence of diabetes. More than 382 million people on the planet suffer from diabetes, predominantly type-2 diabetes. For these people, blood sugar surges — glucose spikes after meals — can be life threatening, leading to cardiovascular complications. A […]

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Jewish news briefs: March 16, 2015

March 16, 2015

At pre-election rally, Netanyahu blasts Livni/Herzog stances on Jerusalem (JNS.org) At a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square that was attended by tens of thousands of Israelis supporting the country’s right-wing political parties, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—whose Likud party is trailing the Zionist Union alliance in polls ahead of Tuesday’s Knesset election—slammed his rivals’ positions

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International, Middle East, USA

In attacking Bibi, ‘Economist’ may have helped him

March 15, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM —The Economist ranks as one of the best of the English language news magazines, even while calling itself a newspaper. It provides coverage of a wide range of places and issues, recalling the extent of what was once the Empire ruled from the magazine’s home town of London. Among those places favored

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Large Pan mask found at Hippos- Sussita

March 15, 2015

HAIFA (Press Release) — A large bronze mask of the god Pan, the only of its kind, was uncovered at the University of Haifa’s excavation at Hippos-Sussita National Park. According to Dr. Michael Eisenberg, bronze masks of this size are extremely rare and usually do not depict Pan or any of the other Greek or

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel and its prophetic vision

March 15, 2015

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — A few thousand years ago a rag-tag band of shepherds cum runaway slaves were wandering around in a desert wasteland led by an enigmatic figure – Moses. No one is sure from whence he came, the origins of his name or where he went. The people told a story of

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Middle East, USA

The case against the New Israel Fund

March 14, 2015

By Hank Sheinkopf and Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — As President Harry Truman said, “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” Recently, many have stood up and told the truth about New Israel Fund’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, their

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Middle East, USA

Israeli political parties reach out to English speakers

March 14, 2015

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of the last political debates three days before Israel’s general elections on Tuesday, March 17th, took place at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue on Saturday night, March 14. Aimed at the English-speaking community of Jerusalem, the very last English-language debate was hosted by the Jerusalem Post and the Association

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International, Middle East, USA

Kerry praises Iran’s fatwa against nuclear weapons

March 14, 2015

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Press Release) — Meeting with reporters after his economic discussions with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 14, spoke about the “tough” and “intense” P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran that will resume on Sunday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are excerpts from Kerry’s meeting with the

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Middle East, USA

Israeli Arabs, Palestinians diverge in views

March 14, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An opinion poll published in Friday’s Yedioth Aharonoth provides an insight into the Arab population of Israel. Along with surveys of Palestinians, it should be viewed with a bit more salt than is usually taken with survey research. Arabs are less inclined than us blabbermouth Jews and other westerners to reveal their attitudes

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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

The BDS movement and anti- Semitism

March 13, 2015

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org SANTA CRUZ, California — Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) called for the expulsion of all Jewish students from their campus. The very next day, halfway around the world, the student government at University of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Use of children in wartime condemned

March 13, 2015

GENEVA (WJC) — Jacob Turner, a member of the Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), addressed a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the rights of children in armed conflict on behalf of the WJC, condemning the “cowardly use of children to gain military advantage and their tragic

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International, Middle East

Herzog gaining momentum in Israel’s election

March 13, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–What Binyamin Netanyahu sees as a threat many of us consider a promise. Friday’s front page of Yisrael Hayom – the daily freebee that his friend and massive supporter Sheldon Adelson, the American casino tycoon, created for his pal Bibi – quotes the latter saying, “If you don’t vote Likud –

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Jewish news briefs: March 13, 2015

March 13, 2015

IDF outlines defense of southern airport, braces for Islamic State-linked attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces—which is said to be preparing for the possibility of an Islamic State-linked terror attack along the Israel-Egypt border—is outlining its defense of the Timna Airport, the new international airport that is currently under construction in southern

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International, Middle East, USA

Letters: About that big van

March 12, 2015

Anti-Israel Van Driving Around San Diego Editor, San Diego Jewish World I stopped to do some shopping at the NorthPark Market – that’s it’s name, it isn’t in North Park– and I saw this truck pull in and park. Looks like it’s sponsored by some faux Jewish group called Jewish Voice for Peace – e-mail www.jvp-sandiego.org

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Study: Big breakfasts, small dinners for diabetics

Jewish news briefs: March 16, 2015

In attacking Bibi, ‘Economist’ may have helped him

Large Pan mask found at Hippos- Sussita

Israel and its prophetic vision

The case against the New Israel Fund

Israeli political parties reach out to English speakers

Kerry praises Iran’s fatwa against nuclear weapons

Israeli Arabs, Palestinians diverge in views

The BDS movement and anti- Semitism

Use of children in wartime condemned

Herzog gaining momentum in Israel’s election

Jewish news briefs: March 13, 2015

Letters: About that big van

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