International

Efforts underway to combat anti- Semitism in Europe

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the senior Democratic Senator on the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), has been named as the Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the 57-nation Organization Security and Cooperation in […]

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International, USA

ADL condemns FM Lieberman’s anti- Arab rhetoric

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, March 10, called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments about Israeli Arabs “divisive and unacceptable” and urged all candidates in Israel’s upcoming general election to avoid extremist rhetoric. In a campaign appearance on March 8, Minister Lieberman, who is head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, used

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Middle East, USA

Mouse- tailed bats hibernate in Israel’s Great Rift Valley

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Many mammals and some birds escape the winter by hibernating for three to nine months. This period of dormancy permits species which would otherwise perish from the cold and scarce food to survive to see another spring. The Middle East, with temperate winters, was until recently considered an unlikely host for

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

$23.4 million raised for Israeli- American programs

BEVERLY HILLS, California (Press Release) — More than 1,100 prominent Israeli-American community supporters and philanthropists from across the country raised $23.4 million at the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’S Seventh Annual Gala March 8 in Los Angeles. The gala, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, marked the Israeli-American community’s achievements over the past year. The funds will go

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Middle East, USA

Jewish news briefs: March 10, 2015

Poll: 64% of Israeli Jews say election won’t swing peace process with Palestinians (JNS.org) Almost two-thirds of Israeli Jews (64 percent) believe that the peace process with the Palestinians will not advance no matter which political party forms Israel’s next government, according to the newly released monthly Peace Index poll by the Israel Democracy Institute

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Middle East, USA

In the West, ‘anti- Semitism’ a word now avoided

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The latest news for those dreaming of a Palestinian state is the refusal of the United List, a group of four largely Arab parties, to sign an agreement with Meretz to provide to one of them the excess votes left over to each after the parceling out via Israel’s system of Proportional

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jews, Muslims to have common dining room at UCSD

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –They may not agree on much politically, especially about Israel and the Palestinians, but members of the Muslim Student Association and the Union of Jewish Students at UCSD are planning to regularly eat together in 2016 in a common dining hall that will offer both kosher and halal

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

StandWithUS releases video on campus anti- Semitism

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Narcoelepsy may be an autoimmune disorder

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Narcoleptics suffer from bouts of sleepiness and sleep attacks, which impair their ability to function in daily life. But the precise cause of narcolepsy has long eluded scientists, and the cure for the devastating neurological disorder afflicting an estimated three million people worldwide — and one in 3,000 Americans — remains

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Serge Rozen new head of Belgium’s Jewish community

BRUSSELS (WJC)–The 62-year-old engineer Serge Rozen has been elected president of the Coordination Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations for the next three years. Rozen succeeds Maurice Sosnowski, who led the CCOJB for the past five years, which were marked by a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Belgium and the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in

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International

Conference to probe Allies’ role in Holocaust

JERUSALEM (WJC) — An international conference addressing the question of why more was not done by the Allied Powers to save Jews during the Holocaust will be held at the in Jerusalem next week, bringing together scholars from five countries. Topics to be discussed will include ‘Could the Allies have bombed Auschwitz?’, ‘Chinese reponses to the

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International, Middle East, USA