By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Though much suggests that both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority prefer to blame the other than pay the price for peace, and notwithstanding US Secretary of State Kerry’s frustration – seemingly even more with Israel than with the Palestinians – talks are still going on. Whether […]
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –That an Iranian scholar, Abbas Milani of Stanford University, should get it wrong about Israel in a piece in the New York Times of April 11 is understandable. But that his co-author, Israel Weismel-Manor of Haifa University and currently a visiting professor at Stanford should so misrepresent Israel suggests malice,
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Middle East
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylviania (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) congratulates the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) chapter for rejecting the national American Studies Association boycott against Israeli academics passed by the organization’s membership in December. EASA is one of the ASA’s 13 regional chapters. The Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) has joined its
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics is the civilized way of dealing with disputes. Campaigns, voting, and the routine displacement of the losers by the winners is the way of enlightened government. Making policy and managing programs are more complicated than election campaigns. They require professional expertise in the myriad of fields that government touches.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. –As we head into the Passover holiday, the peace initiative launched last summer by Secretary of State John Kerry to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians hangs in a curious limbo – certainly not dead but definitely not bursting with life either. With an April 29 deadline to agree
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations lauded the announcement by White House spokesman, Jay Carney, that a visa to enter the US will not be issued to the proposed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, who was involved in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy
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Middle East, USABy Stephen Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — After the latest collapse of negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’ir Lapid, Israel’s Minister of Finance and leader of the left of Center Yesh Atid (There is a Future) political party, said that the extreme Right prefers to wait for the Messiah instead of reaching a solution. Will it
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
HAIFA, Israel — Students at Technion had an engineering challenge for Passover. They were to build a device that could cross “The Red Sea”–actually a small pool of water–and then fill a glass with wine, in order to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Above is a video of how they approached the challenge. __________________________________________________________________ Click here
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK — On June 1, as it has for five decades, the annual Celebrate Israel Parade (formerly the Salute to Israel Parade)—billed as the American Jewish community’s largest show of pride and support for the Jewish state—steps off along Fifth Avenue in New York City. While the parade’s theme this
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— Everyone knows the feeling. The dreaded “low battery” message sends you on a frantic search for a charge, but you finally lose the last drop of energy, and you’re stranded, out of touch. New technology out of Tel Aviv University may just save smartphone users in the near future. The Tel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) – After seven years of construction and an investment of $150 million, the only internationally branded luxury hotel in Jerusalem, Waldorf Astoria, has officially opened for business right before the Passover holiday. Welcoming its first international guests who reserved rooms for the April opening on Thursday, April 10, the Waldorf
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Middle East, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (TOSD) –As world leaders wrangle with the issue of peace in the Middle East, a San Diego investor and philanthropist is actively pursuing ways to bring the Arab and Jewish communities together in a ground-breaking new venture. Jacobs Investments LLC founder Gary Jacobs’ business incubator NGTᶾ, or Next Generation Technology, reaches out to Arab
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Middle East, San Diego County
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — What is social justice? 30 students and researchers from the University of Haifa and the University of Maryland tried to answer this very question in a bi-national seminar, held in the University of Haifa. Their conclusion: the term is so subjective that in some cases it might split the very
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — When writing about Sheldon Adelson, Thomas Friedman gets some things right, and others very wrong. He’s right to see Sheldon Adelson as an overly friendly threat against Israel. Friedman calls him “Iran’s Best Friend” in a recent NTY op-ed piece. If anyone currently active threatens the image of the Jew
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA