The following organizations are working to support Jewish students and combat the rising anti-semitism and intolerance on college campuses. [Press Release]
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Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], May 16 (ANI/TPS): Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that the Israeli premier will advance contentious legislation for conscripting members of the Orthodox Jewish community into army service. “In order to bridge the disagreements and bring about a broad consensus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
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Local Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is concerned that anti-Israel sentiment may influence decision-making at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And, at UC San Diego and other University of California campuses, unionized graduate student workers, have voted to authorize a strike in reaction to campus officials calling in law enforcement to clear out war protesters’ encampments. [SDJW staff]
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In a significant escalation, more than 30 anti-Israel protesters — from the groups behind the encampment still up at the Ann Arbor campus — early yesterday morning went to the homes of members of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. According to a statement put out by the University, “activities included placing tents and fake corpses wrapped in bloodied sheets on the lawn, marching and chanting, and posting demands on doors.” [Press Release]
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Courtesy of Wikipedia Debra Winger (May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival
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President Biden withheld delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel in part because critics of the Jewish state may abandon him next Nov. 5, denying Democrats another four-year term in the White House. However, a revealing New York Times piece on Sunday suggests that Biden’s prevailing reason was aggravation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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They urged the Administration to continue to issue and enforce sanctions against those complicit in extremist settler violence. [Press Release]
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AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin issued the following statement Wednesday blasting Sonoma State University’s capitulation to the encampment demands of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), including committing the state school to a full academic boycott of Israel … (Press Release0
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Only 10 male-identifying leads, and 10 female- identifying leads are chosen to compete from all the high school theater departments in San Diego County. From there, one student from each category will be chosen to go to New York to compete in the Broadway Jimmy Awards. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Hillel Milwaukee, and ADL Midwest blasted the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee yesterday for capitulating to anti-Israel protesters. [Press Release]
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Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], May 15 (ANI/TPS): Israeli aircraft killed 15 terrorists in a strike on a Hamas command center located inside a UNRWA school on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said. The war room was embedded in a UN Relief and Works Agency school in the central Gaza area of Nuseirat.
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Published by DPA International The Israeli government has unanimously rejected a recommendation adopted last week by the UN General Assembly calling for greater rights within the assembly for Palestine. “We will not reward the terrible massacre of October 7,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday following his cabinet’s decision to reject the resolution. “We
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Special Padres hats bearing the “Chai” (Life) symbol were distributed to them, and they got to hear and cheer Rabbi Jeremy Gimbel of Congregation Beth Israel sing “The Star Spangled Banner” in pre-game ceremonies. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Courtesy of Wikipedia Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage
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