SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners have scheduled an annual community event to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut on May 15 at the San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Road, from 2 pm to 5 pm. This is a free event to celebrate and educate our local community about […]
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarNews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau NEW YORK (Press Release) – In an effort to assist Palau confront its severe water shortage, AJC has made a donation to the Pacific Island nation to help build a new desalination system. Israel will be providing the equipment and technical support.
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — My in-laws got married in a forest in Slovakia during the Holocaust in 1942. They gave birth to a little boy, and about six months before the war was over, went into hiding in a storeroom beneath the home of a non-Jewish woman in a nearby village. Since
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Jewish History, Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldTrump calls Israel ‘great bastion of hope,’ says he will visit Jewish state ‘soon’ (JNS.org) Asked for his message to Israelis on Yom Hazikaron, the Jewish state’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview published Wednesday by the Israel Hayom newspaper that
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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than a week, we’ve been rocked by commentary, partly in support, and sharply critical of a speech that the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Yair Golan, made on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The most complete version in English follows, taken from a report in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Five candidates for U.S. Senate dramatically split on the issue of admitting Syrian refugees to the United States, with two Democrats pleading for compassion, two Republicans citing security concerns, and one Republican saying he has no problem with refugees but the total number of immigrants to this country
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Middle East, USANews of Israel’s friends in Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau (Eagle Bulk Shipping is a Marshall Islands Corporation) STAMFORD, Conn., May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (Nasdaq: EGLE) today announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. First Quarter Highlights: Net reported loss of $39.3 million,
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InternationalA convoy of Hezbollah terrorists and weapons was hit in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, according to Arab media reports. The convoy was reportedly traveling through the village of Anjar, close to Lebanon’s border with Syria, when it was hit. Anjar is located in the Bekaa Valley region, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon. Israel’s
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Middle EastSadiq Khan, London’s newly elected mayor and the first Muslim to hold the office, slammed Donald Trump as “ignorant” after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Mr. Khan could be an “exception” to his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. The mayor told BuzzFeed that Mr. Trump’s “ignorant view of Islam” could
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, May 10, called on Donald Trump to renounce the support of William Johnson, one of the country’s most well-known white supremacists, who recently applied to and was accepted by the Trump campaign as a state delegate to the Republican presidential primary in California. Johnson’s name was reportedly
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Are you an “adherence-to-the-law” person? Do you believe that law and order is to be respected and followed always and in all circumstances? Or are you a “respond to different needs” person? You believe that there are circumstances that permit needs to be considered on an individual basis—not
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAAlmost a year into his surreal campaign for president, the American political class still doesn’t know what to make of Donald Trump. The billionaire mogul’s defiance of all the standard rules of American politics, not to mention the orthodoxy of his own party, has left pundits scrambling to explain his takeover of the Republican Party.
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam is warning American and European companies not to sell airplanes and other products to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, he took to the House floor to continue sounding the alarm bells over The Boeing Company’s ongoing negotiations with government-run airlines in Iran. Last week, he joined
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Middle East, USABernie Sanders surprised Stephen Colbert Monday, a day before the West Virginia Democratic primary, with a simple message: He is not giving up. During the cold open of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Colbert had just gotten his hand stuck in a vending machine trying to retrieve a 100 Grand bar, when in
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