By Hank Sheinkopf and Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — As President Harry Truman said, “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” Recently, many have stood up and told the truth about New Israel Fund’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, their […]
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of the last political debates three days before Israel’s general elections on Tuesday, March 17th, took place at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue on Saturday night, March 14. Aimed at the English-speaking community of Jerusalem, the very last English-language debate was hosted by the Jerusalem Post and the Association
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International, Middle East, USASHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Press Release) — Meeting with reporters after his economic discussions with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 14, spoke about the “tough” and “intense” P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran that will resume on Sunday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are excerpts from Kerry’s meeting with the
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An opinion poll published in Friday’s Yedioth Aharonoth provides an insight into the Arab population of Israel. Along with surveys of Palestinians, it should be viewed with a bit more salt than is usually taken with survey research. Arabs are less inclined than us blabbermouth Jews and other westerners to reveal their attitudes
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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org SANTA CRUZ, California — Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) called for the expulsion of all Jewish students from their campus. The very next day, halfway around the world, the student government at University of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
GENEVA (WJC) — Jacob Turner, a member of the Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), addressed a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the rights of children in armed conflict on behalf of the WJC, condemning the “cowardly use of children to gain military advantage and their tragic
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–What Binyamin Netanyahu sees as a threat many of us consider a promise. Friday’s front page of Yisrael Hayom – the daily freebee that his friend and massive supporter Sheldon Adelson, the American casino tycoon, created for his pal Bibi – quotes the latter saying, “If you don’t vote Likud –
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Middle East
HELSINKI, Finland (WJC)–World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer paid a visit to Finland, Norway and Denmark to discuss the situation of the Jewish communities in Scandinavia in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, which came as a shock to Scandinavian Jews. Singer met with community leaders in Helsinki, Oslo and Copenhagen, as well
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InternationalIDF outlines defense of southern airport, braces for Islamic State-linked attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces—which is said to be preparing for the possibility of an Islamic State-linked terror attack along the Israel-Egypt border—is outlining its defense of the Timna Airport, the new international airport that is currently under construction in southern
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International, Middle East, USA
Anti-Israel Van Driving Around San Diego Editor, San Diego Jewish World I stopped to do some shopping at the NorthPark Market – that’s it’s name, it isn’t in North Park– and I saw this truck pull in and park. Looks like it’s sponsored by some faux Jewish group called Jewish Voice for Peace – e-mail www.jvp-sandiego.org
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – When President Obama announced his Student Bill of Rights this week it contained language from a bill by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California). The San Diego Democrat’s bill helps borrowers pay down their student loans faster by directing extra payments go toward the principal and not toward the interest. “I was pleased
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — This week, Members of Congress (MC’s) Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent
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Middle East, USAATHENS (Press Release)– A senior American Jewish Committee (AJC) leadership group just concluded a two-day visit to Greece. The six-member delegation, led by AJC President Stanley Bergman and Executive Director David Harris, was joined by leaders of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), an AJC partner organization, and Andrew Manatos, a prominent leader
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