The UJA-Federation of New York on Sunday applauded New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who had earlier issued an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. “UJA-Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to […]
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Middle East, USAThe annual Celebrate Israel Parade in Manhattan was attended by over 30,000 Jews and supporters of Israel on Sunday. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon took part, as did New York State and City leaders, dozens of schools, Jewish organizations, synagogues and pro-Israel Christian groups. “It is heartwarming to see tens of thousands of
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Middle East, USAAfter a bill against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) was rejected by the Ontario parliament, Premier Kathleen Wynne plans to work with members of the opposition to draft a new motion on the issue, The Canadian Jewish News reports. Wynne made the pledge in response to the controversy surrounding “The Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism
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International, Middle EastPope Francis has declared Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad to be a saint, in recognition of her efforts to save Jewish families from the Holocaust. Hesselblad was a nurse and served as the mother superior in a Roman convent during World War II. For about six months before the war ended, she hid Jewish families in her
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InternationalIf there’s one wholly unnecessary thing that presidential candidates would love to wipe off their plates, it’s the wrangling over a political party platform. The platform is exhaustively debated, but it doesn’t really accomplish anything. Some may argue that it is a critical statement of important issues for the party, but that’s not true at
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – More than 200 Jewish community members attended a talk on the history of American delicatessens on Sunday afternoon, June 5, many hoping that the turnout at the event would lure more Jewish Community Cente-sponsored programming in the eastern portions of the city.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The headline of this column, letting aspirations for an organized work rest in peace, may reflect more cynicism than reality. However, there is something to the idea. Colonialism began its demise with World War I, when the European powers that could carve up the world and color the maps as
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWith only two full campaign days left before major presidential primaries in California and New Jersey, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hit the trail in the Golden State on Saturday. On the Democratic side, California has 548 delegates up for grabs while New Jersey has 142. Clinton leads the delegate count with 2,316 while
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USAIsraeli security forces arrested a Hamas terrorist involved in tunnel digging who crossed the border into Israel, it has been cleared for publication. The 17-year-old member of Hamas’s military wing was captured upon entering Israeli territory, in a joint operation involving IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police forces in May of this year. Under interrogation
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Middle EastProsecutors in Lod have filed charges against Omar Riyad Abd al-Razak Uda, a 21-year-old man from Qalansawe in central Israel, for contacting a foreign agent and providing services for an illegal organization. According to the statements, Uda periodically visited the al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On three occasions in 2015, he
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Middle EastIsrael on Sunday released a correspondent in the Golan Heights for Iran’s Arabic-language state television after four days of detention, police said. Bassam al-Safadi, a journalist for the Al-Alam news channel, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of “supporting a terrorist organisation and incitement to violence and terrorism,” police said. A court in Nazareth in northern
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Middle East25-year-old Erin Schrode is a rising star in the Democrat Party. She is hoping to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the youngest person in the House of Representatives. But her ambitions have also attracted the attention of neo-Nazi online trolls, who have targeted her in a vile campaign of hate, prompting
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USAWhile the Jewish community in the neighborhood of Silwan (Shiloach) in eastern Jerusalem has elicited fierce criticism from the Israeli left and even the American government, descendants of the original owner of the “Kfar HaTeimanim” (Yemenite Village) area in Silwan celebrated the planned construction of an additional apartment building for the growing Jewish population. Yair
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From Times of San Diego Likely Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said in Oxnard, California on Saturday the San Diego federal judge criticized for being of Mexican ancestry is “as much of an American as Donald Trump.” The presumptive Republican nominee has accused U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit brought by
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