By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Thousands of books have made their way to Israel’s capital this week, as the Jerusalem International Book Fair opened its doors from February 8-12, in a tradition that has now gone on for 27 years. Since 1963, the Jerusalem book fair has served as a connection point between the […]
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NEW YORK (WJC) — The last several decades saw a sharp decline in the number of Jews living in Europe, according to a report published Monday by the Pew Research Center, which is partly based on 2010 figure. The report estimates that there were 3.2 million European Jews in 1960, which fell to 2 million by
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InternationalTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Rare diseases, those that affect fewer than one in 200,000 people, are often identified early in life. Some 30 percent of children afflicted by these “orphan diseases” do not live to see their fifth birthday. While the US Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was written into law to promote research on
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SANTA CRUZ, California — After the Jewish community suffered two hate crimes at UC Davis in recent days, 23 organizations with hundreds of thousands of members and supporters demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi conduct a formal investigation into registered student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz, also
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Barack Obama burst upon the American political scene in 2004, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, just four months after unexpectedly being elected the junior senator from Illinois. Less than five years later, in his first inaugural speech, President Obama intoned, “We will
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The Israeli election scheduled for March 17 appears to be a close race, with the Likud and the Zionist Camp locked with around 23-26 seats each. Under these circumstances, the center parties play a key role in determining the identity of the Election Day winner. In Israel, citizens don’t
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– No single political party can rule Israel. That’s why party blocks are emerging. On the right, Likud under Netanyahu and Habayit Hayehudi under Bennett are natural coalition partners, despite their reported difficult personal relations. The position of Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu is more complex. He’s the natural ally of the two
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– There is nothing physically imposing about Lou Dunst—a cherubic, dignified man with a sweet smile yet deep sorrowful eyes. At times, when he walks slowly by, it seems that a stiff wind could knock him down. But then you realize that not even the wind could do such a
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USAReport: NGOs involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict get $27 million in foreign aid (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Foreign governments donated some $27 million to 24 nongovernmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2012 and 2014, according to a new report by the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor. According to the report, released Monday, the donations
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The world quickly forgets– almost with blazing light speed… Some of us have short memories and some of us have long memories. This writer in particular will not ignore two noteworthy events that occurred in the last six months. Both of these events involved ISIS executing
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison The rhetoric is heating up over the scheduled March 3 speech that Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahyu is scheduled to give to a Joint Session of Congress. Jeremy Ben Ami, execuitve director of J Street, has taken umbrage at Netanyahu saying that he will give his speech “not just as the
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with members of the Cohen, Braham and Saada families, whose loved ones were murdered in the terrorist attack on the kosher shop in Paris last month. The President spoke with the families and heard from them about their experiences over this difficult time. The President told
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–During a joint press conference Monday, Feb. 9, with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama defined his differences with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. Here is a text of his comments on that subject, as provided by the White House. Q
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (United With Israel) — A Shi’ite Lebanese cleric, in an extremely rare gesture, has reached out to Jews and Christians worldwide, denouncing violence in a Facebook post monitored here in Jerusalem. “We call on rabbis, priests, cardinals and Muslim clerics, Sunni and Shia, to underemphasize the verses, the traditions and the religious texts that
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