WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) on Thursday, March 12, criticized the use of Congressional video footage in a new campaign advertisement released by the Israeli Likud party, which is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On several occasions both before and after the Prime Minister’s speech to a joint meeting […]
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Middle East, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA Initiative co-founder and director, issued the following statement Thursday, March 12, after the UCLA student senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning antisemitism on Tuesday, and UC President Janet Napolitano and UC Regents Chair Bruce Varner publicly condemned campus antisemitism on Wednesday. The UC Berkeley student government passed a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAJERUSALEM (Yated Ne’eman) — It happens with the best intentions. A regular, normative family finds itself turning into the object of a “chessed project,” and they hardly know how it happened! The family’s dignity is compromised and their privacy intruded upon* The way to misguided chessed is paved with good intentions… A class had a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — On March 17, the citizens of Israel will return to the polls less than two years after the previous election. Voting for the 20th Knesset in Israel’s short, 67-year history, Israelis hope that the new government will last the full four-year term, unlike most of its predecessors. Israel, like
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HAIFA (Press Release) — A rare copy of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) that reached Israel in a circuitous fashion and was donated to the University by the late film producer and director Micha Shagrir, was reunited with its “twin,” a copy of the same edition that was already in the Rare Books Department of the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — What do Palestinian Arabs need Israel for? Last week the PLO Central Council decided to end security co-operation with Israel. So I decided to retrieve from my newsletter archives just a few of the hundreds of examples of news articles showing Israeli cooperation with Palestinian Arabs. Here are some
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastNetanyahu responds to criticism, says ‘security cannot be founded on delusions’ (JNS.org) As Israel’s March 17 election approaches, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the recent wave of criticism directed at him by Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad spy agency. In an interview with Israel Hayom published Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel’s security
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An unimportant election? Yes, insofar as it is apparent from recent polls that the real work will come later. The leaders of the two large parties, neither of which may reach a quarter of the total Knesset, and nine smaller parties will make claims to the President. Then he’ll have a week
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – The head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York on Tuesday evening, March 10, that Israel must be “prepared” for new conflicts along its northern border with Syria, whose internal violence seems like
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TEL AVIV (WJC) — The exhibition ‘Tree of life – The Jews of Hungary, 1981-2004’ at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv displays a selection of 40 photographs taken by Andres Lacko. It reflect the changes in the lives of Hungarian Jews from the 1980s to the early 2000s. The exhibition blends past and present. Lacko’s
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Arab party’s official says Islamic State learned terror from Zionism (JNS.org) Raja Zaatra, a public relations official for the Joint Arab List political party in Israel, said the Islamic State terror group learned its actions from Zionism and refused to define Hamas as a terrorist organization. During a panel discussion about Israel’s upcoming March
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There was a modicum of tension before Israel’s Consul -General based in Los Angeles, David Siegel, spoke in the upstairs auditorium of the new Melvin Garb Hillel Center alongside the San Diego State University campus. After all, there were security precautions taken and Resa Levitt Kohn, head
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The partisan divide in Washington D.C. over Iran’s nuclear aspirations has been growing wider, and more bitter, as President Barack Obama, a Democrat, argues with the Republican-controlled Congress over whether any agreement between Iran and the Permanent Five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany—the so
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By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — Our support for liberal democracy, freedom of expression, and human and civil rights have made us a target for the far right in Israel. In this election season — when so many incumbents are running from their records — tarring NIF can serve as a convenient distraction. Several hardline
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