SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Stav Shaffir, the social justice activist and protest leader who became the youngest female Member of Knesset (MK) in Israel’s history, “is bringing her message of peace and hope to San Diego this month,” according to J-Street. On Tuesday, April 12th, she will appear at San Diego’s Temple Emanu-El […]
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarBy Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — The next chapter in the developing story of the attempt to marginalize Israeli human right activists is now unfolding in Israel. This time, it centers around an “expose” aired on Israel’s Channel Two last week about interviews that Breaking the Silence did with demobilized soldiers. The “smoking gun” is
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Middle East, USAU.S. paid $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran after secret talks, report says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Obama administration spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, with more future payouts likely, according to a U.S. State Department letter
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International, Middle East
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Those maps of the Middle Ages that put Jerusalem at the center of the world are still relevant. They were created by Christians whose faith began with the life and death of Christ in and around this city. Despite surveys in western countries that show declines in religious adherence or literal acceptance of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East(Editor’s Note: Comments on the UC Regents’ decision may be found below from leaders of the AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, StandWithUs, Hillel International, and the Zionist Organization of America.) By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Regents of the University of California (UC) for
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — Dylan Souza wore a Pokémon outfit, including yellow headgear, to the San Diego Convention Center. But his presence Tuesday night at the Bernie Sanders rally wasn’t Comic-Con kid stuff. If the Vermont senator doesn’t win the Democratic nomination, he said, “I’d probably end up voting for Elizabeth Warren” as
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s March 11th rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion was shut down last week by hundreds of leftist protestors, comprised of activists from Moveon.org, Black Lives Matter, Muslim groups, and even unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the morally indignant protestors had
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There seems to be a subtext in the extensive coverage in the Israeli media of the attacks in Brussels this week: liberalism is very laudable but it endangers the security of innocent citizens. Commentators have had much to say about how easy it is for would-be terrorists to hide because
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International, Middle EastIDF soldier collapses, dies during physical training (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A new recruit to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Givati Brigade collapsed and died on Tuesday during physical fitness training at a base in the Negev desert. Private Yehuda Suisa, 19, from the town of Beit Uziel, had enlisted in the army on Monday.
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Middle EastAfter Brussels attacks, Belgian Jews scale down Purim festivities (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Brussels Jewish community is scaling down celebrations for the Purim holiday on Wednesday and Thursday as Belgium recovers from Tuesday’s bombing attacks that killed 34 people. The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. “We are going have
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International
By Donald H. Harrison LAFAYETTE, California – It has been a quarter century since Rabbi Roberto D. Graetz came to this Northern California community after serving as a rabbi in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But the soon-to-retire senior rabbi of Temple Isaiah has remained intimately involved in Latin America as a
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionHouse approves bill to inurn WASP ashes at Arlington WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, a Jewish Democrat from San Diego, praised the passage of bipartisan legislation to restore the inurnment rights for Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) at Arlington National Cemetery. Davis is a lead cosponsor of the WASP Arlington Inurnment
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USABrussels rocked by terror blasts, about 30 believed dead (JNS.org) Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels on Tuesday in the worst terror attack to hit Europe since the Islamic State-organized terror attacks in Paris last November. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Brussels Zaventem airport, and a third detonated his bomb at
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The news on Saturday night and Sunday was of a suicide bombing in Istanbul, with three Israeli tourists among the dead. Some will see a political irony in the death of an Iranian, as well. It’s not clear whether the presence of an Israeli tour group prompted the attack, whether
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