By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Thanksgiving is a day when Americans of all faiths sit at one spiritual table with many of the same trimmings and family customs. Thanksgiving liberates us from specific theological claims and allows us to contemplate the common creed of gratitude. It’s the only pure festival and nobody is fighting […]
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Jewish Religion, USABy Michael Ordman HAIFA, Israel — When the regular news is full of distressing events, such as the recent terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, I try to focus my weekly positive news feature on the many life-affirming stories from Israel that barely get any attention in the international media. Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University stumbled
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastIsrael demands NATO response to new Hamas headquarters in Turkey (JNS.org) Israel has demanded that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) take action against one of its members, Turkey, after learning that the country allowed the Gaza-based Palestinian terror group Hamas to set up operational headquarters in Istanbul. Senior political sources in Jerusalem said Hamas
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– A record crowd of over 1,100 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 116th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 23 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 261 student activists from various universities around the country. Rising Republican star and
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Hadassah Medical Organization Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Erez Meltzer, 59, as Chairperson of the Board. He was selected from among top-tier candidates presented by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, to the Government of Israel representatives and was approved by the Ministries of Health and Finance. Meltzer
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM — Lost in the uproar over the proposed Nationality Bill has been the historic recognition of Arameans as a separate nationality in Israel. Israel is the first country in the world to recognize the Arameans. Israel’s historic recognition has empowered and emboldened Arameans to seek better treatment in other countries
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International, Middle EastIsrael protests Jordanian support of synagogue terrorists’ families (JNS.org) The Israeli Embassy in Amman on Monday issued a letter of protest to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry in reaction to Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour’s letter of support to the families of the two Palestinian terrorists behind the Nov. 18 synagogue massacre in Jerusa-lem. The terrorists
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Currently Israeli politicians are wrapping themselves around a high intensity bit of meaninglessness, which is also dangerous, about the country’s self definition of being a Jewish state. The issue was settled 60 years ago when the founders left dangling in the Declaration of Independence the wonderful sounding ideals of being
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)— Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic and currentlyh a columnist for Haaretz, will discuss his insights into recent developments in Israel and the region, the Israel-Diaspora relationship and the changing dynamics around Israel on college campuses at 7 p.m. Monday, December 15th at at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Center Drive,
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USABy Anav Silverman BEER-SHEVA, Israel– According to a Ben Gurion University of the Negev research group, American football players for the first time have been found to have brain damage from mild “unreported” concussions. Published in the current issue of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Neurology, the Ben Gurion study could improve decision making about when an athlete
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & CompetitionsBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Fierce debate, both inside Israel and abroad, has been raging over a piece of legislation that would become a Basic Law. This legislation, dubbed “the Nationality Bill”, would enshrine in law the definition of Israel as a state of the Jewish people. Basic Laws are the building blocks of
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Jewish History, Middle East
BERLIN, Germany (WJC) — The Kunstmuseum Bern on Monday agreed to accept artworks from the collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt, whose son Cornelius Gurlitt willed them to the museum in the Swiss capital shortly before his death last April. The head of the museum’s Board of Trustees, Christoph Schäublin, told a press conference in Berlin that his institution
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InternationalDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel, source of past controversy on Israel, to resign (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a past source of controversy due to his statements about Israel, will resign. The New York Times, citing senior U.S. officials, reported Monday that President Barack Obama decided to push for Hagel’s resignation “as a recognition
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Nov. 23, expressed outrage at a Turkish governor’s threats to turn a century-old synagogue into a museum — as punishment, he says, for Israel’s alleged actions against Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. Dursun Sahin, governor of the province of Edirne, said he was turning the 107-year old Buyuk
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