Sherri Mandell In February 1969, Rasmeah Odeh murdered two Hebrew University students and injured nine other people. Leon Kaner was 21 and Edward Jaffe was 22 when they were murdered in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh set bombs in coffee cans that exploded in the grocery, killing the two young men and injuring nine other people. […]
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Middle East, USAIsraeli government votes to decriminalize recreational marijuana use (JNS.org) The Israeli government voted in favor of decriminalizing recreational marijuana use, joining several other European countries and U.S. states that have adopted similar measures. At Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a team of experts had studied the issue and that “this
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Middle EastBy Sam Ben-Meir DOBBS FERRY, New York — The United States is witnessing a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic acts, which are sweeping over the country in wave after wave. In St. Louis, more than a hundred tombstones were tipped over; similar hate crimes have taken place in Philadelphia and New York. Attacks are taking place not
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Sam Ben-Meir, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — White supremacists, emboldened by the 2016 elections and the current political climate, are currently engaged in an unprecedented outreach effort to attract and recruit students on American college campuses. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has cataloged 104 incidents of white supremacist fliering on college campuses since the school year began
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Jerusalem on Monday in an expression of solidarity with the Jewish community, accompanied by the Orthodox Union’s Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. Following a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Cuomo announced the creation of a New York-Israel Commission, charged with assisting in the creation and
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — A new Tel Aviv University study published in Child Development finds that the disruptive behavior of an individual child does not encourage similar behavior in their brothers and sisters. On the contrary, Dr. Ella Daniel of TAU’s Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education finds that siblings, predominantly older siblings,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Because of concerns due to the recent bomb threats at local Jewish institutions, the Anti-Defamation League organized a meeting at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Sunday evening, to address these issues. Tammy Gillies, Director of the San Diego ADL opened the program with a power point presentation, giving
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, USAAttorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to provide amended written testimony on Monday to respond to senators’ questions about his contact with Russia’s ambassador, a move unlikely to please Democratic senators who sought to bring him back before a Senate committee to answer questions in person. “In light of the letter received from Senators late
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International, USANew York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is on a visit to Israel, on Sunday proclaimed the first Sunday in June as “Shimon Peres Day” after Israel”s former Prime Minister and President, who passed away in September. “Shimon Peres was an asset to the world. He was one of the more gifted leaders that this world
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Middle East, USAVice President Mike Pence publicly demanded an apology from the Associated Press (AP) on Saturday for listing his wife’s private email address in a story about Pence’s apparent reluctance to make the records of his tenure as Indiana’s governor public. In a tweet on Saturday evening, Pence alleged that AP had violated his and his
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USANorth Korea fired a projectile into the Sea of Japan east of North Korea early Monday, apparently protesting last week’s U.S.-South Korea joint military drills, the South Korean military said. Yonhap News Agency, quoting a military official at the Defense Ministry, said the projectile might have been an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the
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InternationalFormer White House press secretary Josh Earnest claimed he didn’t know whether or not President Barack Obama’s Justice Department sought and obtained a FISA court-ordered wiretap of President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 during an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.” Obama’s former press secretary responded to assertions Trump made via Twitter Saturday that
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USAFormer Prime Minister Ehud Barak attacked this morning (Sunday) on his Twitter account Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, following reports in Haaretz this morning of a document about a regional peace initiative abandoned by Netanyahu. “Netanyahu’s ignominy. Israel’s future and the lives of soldiers are in the hands of a deceptive and cowardly Prime Minister. Topple
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Middle EastIt is a disappointing election result for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The pro-British party were ten seats ahead of Irish nationalists Sinn Fein heading into the snap poll, and saw that lead shrink to just one as the results were announced. DUP 28, SF 27, SDLP 12, UUP 10, APNI 8, Green 2,
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