Middle East

Willful blindness to academic anti-Semitism

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–As yet more evidence that academics are regularly able to engage in what George Orwell sardonically referred to as “doublethink,” “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them,” this month 40 professors of Jewish studies published a denunciation of a study that […]

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

AJC: U.S. should restore Egypt’s military aid

CAIRO (Press Release)–An American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation, after three days of high-level consultations, urged accelerated steps to normalize strategic relations between the United States and Egypt. “Egypt has been, and remains, an essential ally in the global fight against terror‎ and extremism,” said Jason Isaacson, AJC Associate Executive Director for Policy. U.S. military aid

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Middle East, USA

Plants in Med climate zone adapt to climate change

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Climate change predictions for the Middle East, like other arid regions of the world, are alarming. In an area known for its water scarcity, rainfall is expected to decrease even further in the near future, spelling disaster for the functioning of unique ecosystems — hotspots of biodiversity and rich genetic fodder

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Middle East, The World We Share

JNS news briefs: October 21, 2014

Report: Obama seeks to bypass Congress, suspend Iran sanctions (JNS.org) President Barack Obama “will do everything in his power” to prevent Congress from voting on a nuclear agreement with Iran if one is reached by the Nov. 24 deadline, The New York Times reported Monday. “Even while negotiators argue over the number of centrifuges Iran

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Middle East

Templers, Germans and Nazis

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The German Templers were part of the ‘Christian Zionism’ movement whereby the European powers sought to establish their presence in the Holy Land after 1840. Following their charismatic leader, Christian Hoffman, these adherents of the German Lutheran church, primarily in Wurtemberg, established settlements in Jerusalem, Haifa, Galilee and

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East

4 Israeli institutions receive cash awards

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced more than $9.6 million dollars in grants to four Israeli institutions. These grants are part of a continuing effort to invest in Israel’s leading institutions and critical initiatives toward the goal of strengthening Israel as a successful and secure nation. Since the Helmsley Charitable Trust began awarding

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Daughters rue opera about terror victim

NEW YORK (Press Release) In advance of the opening of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night, Oct. 19, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement by Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, which will be featured in the playbill.　Following is the full text of the statement: Twenty nine years

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA