WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. President Barack Obama issued this statement for Yom HaShoah 2016: Today, on Yom HaShoah, we solemnly remember the six million Jews and the millions of others murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. On this day, we honor the memory of the millions of individuals – the mothers and […]
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There hasn’t been Jewish unity since our ancestors began writing some 3,000 years ago. We can guess that Jewish literacy has something to do with Jewish creativity, individual capacity to express oneself freely, tolerance or enthusiasm for dispute, as well as economic success. Roots of self doubt and being disputatious
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on the occasion of Yom HaShoah: Teresa and I join all Americans in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, we pause to reflect on the irredeemable loss of six million Jews and countless Poles, Roma, LGBT people, Jehovah’s
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International, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Students at San Diego State University and a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evidently feel that a strong offense is a good defense. On Wednesday, May 4, at a campus news conference reported on local television, they called for the resignation of SDSU’s President Elliot Hirshman because
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationA delegation of Jordanian students visiting Israel met on Wednesday with Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara (Likud) and director of the ministry, Hashem Hussein. The group is touring Israel at the invitation of the Ministry of Regional Cooperation and the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. The program is part of a
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — General Aviv Kochavi, currently in charge of the Northern Command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), came to see my wife Fredzia the other day. He was one of some two dozen members of the General Staff, led by the Chief of Staff, who visited Beit Mozes, the old
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Joseph Werk embarks on his 20th stint as a Sar-El volunteer Joseph Werk displays the certificate recognizing his service as a veteran Sar-El volunteer. Werk receives his service pin as a Sar-El volunteer in May 2014. Joseph Werk is getting ready for his May 14 departure for Israel, where he will serve for three weeks
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Middle East, USALoss drove her to action to ‘protect the values this country was built on’ Devorah Halberstam, the mother of 16-year-old terror victim Ari Halberstam, said, “I think of Ari as everyone’s child and I think of everyone’s child as my own because organized terror does not differentiate between one belief and another.” Photo by Robert
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USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. Tour companies are suspending trips to the lake because of a lack of golden jellyfish The big question at Palau’s Jellyfish Lake: Where are all the jellyfish? Part of a UNESCO World Heritage area, the saltwater lake has long been a source of
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InternationalIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau Sydney (dpa) – Australia’s foreign aid has been cut to a record low of 0.22 per cent of gross national income in the government’s annual budget, making it one of the lowest in the developed world. Aid agency leaders strongly condemned the cuts announced
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BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut/PRNewswire/ — A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday, May 3, against Rabbi Daniel Greer, a prominent member of the Orthodox Jewish community in New Haven and the former New Haven City Police Commissioner. The other defendants in the lawsuit are Yeshiva of New Haven, Inc. and The Gan School, Inc., both accused of…
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USAThe father of the Palestinian teenager burnt alive in Jerusalem, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, has said that no compensation could bring back his son after an Israeli court on Tuesday ordered his killer to a life sentence and to pay the family 150,000 shekels ($39,000). An Israeli court convicted Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, of 16-year-old Khdeir’s
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Middle EastI came to generous Texas from Karachi, Pakistan to get my graduate degree in June of 1985 in the sweltering, 105-degree heat. I loved it. I met my beautiful wife, a first generation Mexican-American who came from a Catholic immigrant family, in school. And I loved it more. After leaving university, I got my first
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USAAt the height of the recent brouhaha about the U.K. Labour Party’s problem with anti-Semitism—it’s not entirely finished yet—I got an e-mail from an old friend in South Carolina. “You got me thinking I am some sort of anti-Semite. I am a somewhat reluctant Zionist. Help me out here, would you?” My friend is an
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