Middle East

Double lens system developed for Smartphones

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite an addiction to taking pictures everywhere they go, cellphone junkies have not been able to ditch their stand-alone cameras quite yet. Smartphones still don’t possess the sharp zoom capabilities of digital still cameras, so the resulting pictures can be messy and out-of-focus. That won’t be the case for long, however. […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

JCPA: U.S. moral leadership needed around the world

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The failure of the Nigerian government to take immediate and effective steps to rescue hundreds of girls kidnapped from their school with the intention that they be sold into marital slavery highlights the need for more assertive U.S. leadership in protecting human rights, said the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. “For

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International, Middle East, USA

Canadian student wins int’l Bible quiz

  By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –This year’s Intersnational Bible Quiz winner is Eitan Amos from Toronto, Canada. The 18-year-old, who lived in Karnei Shomron until he was 11, competed against 15 other finalists during this year’s International Bible Quiz traditionally held on Israel’s Independence Day.  Seventy-five contestants from 33 countries including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina,

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

AJC thanks Kerry for trying to bring Mideast peace

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) has expressed “gratitude and admiration” to Secretary of State John Kerry for “the noble initiative” for Israeli-Palestinian peace he launched last June at the AJC Global Forum. Kerry’s address to AJC was his first speech in Washington as Secretary of State. “When you spoke to us in Washington

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Middle East, USA

Riot police break up Far Right protests in Belgium

  BRUSSELS (WJC) — Police in the Belgian capital Brussels had to use water cannons to disperse a crowd defying a ban on a gathering of controversial far-right figures including the controversial Frenchman Dieudonné M’bala M’bala which critics called an “anti-Semitic hatefest”. Citing a threat to public order, the mayor of the Brussels municipality of

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International, Middle East

Lowey stresses U.S. support on Yom Ha’ Atzma’ut

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-New York) on Monday, May 5, released the following statement in honor of Israeli Independence Day: “This year, we celebrate 66 years of Israeli independence as well as over six decades of steadfast friendship between Israel and the United States. “When President Truman recognized the state of

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Middle East, USA

Tazpit News Agency founder Amotz Eyal tells of Israelis’ fight for balanced news coverage in Judea and Samaria

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Why do Palestinians seem to get better press than Israelis in Western media?  Journalistic bias is only part of the answer, Amotz Eyal, the founder of the Tazpit News Agency of Israel, told a gathering Sunday night, May 4,  at Beth Jacob Congregation. In a slide and video presentation, Eyal

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

The little things that provide so much happiness

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — “What makes you happy?” A recent survey in England asked people that question and, after obtaining thousands of replies and running the various statistical analyses, came up with the result that on the whole people are happier after the age of 55 than when they were younger. Various explanations

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Netanyahu explains making the ‘Jewish state’ a basic law

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, May 4, began his weekly Cabinet meeting with an explanation of his call for anchoring in the country’s Basic Law a provision recognizing that Israel is a Jewish state.  Following is the text of his comments on this issue: “The State of Israel is a Jewish and democratic

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Jewish History, Middle East