By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When a funeral was recently held in Washington for the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, his wife Sally Quinn arranged a traditional Episcopal service at the Washington National Cathedral, and according to news reports, over 1,000 people attended. Famous for his role helping to bring down a […]
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The fourth census of Jewish day schools in the United States conducted by Dr. Marvin Schick was released Thursday, Oct. 30, by The AVI CHAI Foundation, which sponsored the research. Conducted at five-year intervals, beginning with the 1998-99 school year, this research provides a clear picture of trends in the day school
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Police statistics were showing a decline in the incidence of violence associated with Jerusalem until a Palestinian activist took upon himself a motorcycle shooting of Yehuda Glick. The immediate response was celebrations in Arab sections of Jerusalem, followed by an uptick of violence when the police and their colleagues in other
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement concerning the aftermath to the shooting of Temple Mount advocate Rabbi Yehudah Glick by a Palestinian terrorist on Wednesday, Oct. 29: “I strongly condemn yesterday’s shooting of a U.S. citizen outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. My thoughts and prayers are
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of Israel’s most influential business meetings, the 12th Go4Israel Conference, was held this week on Tuesday, October 27, at the Hilton Tel Aviv, and paid particular attention to China. Over 1,000 participants took part in the conference including international and local entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders. “The conference reflects
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that incitement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was partly to blame for the shooting of a Temple Mount activist a night earlier. Netanyahu convened a meeting of top security officials on Thursday morning, a day after Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a prominent activist for Jewish
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called Sweden’s recognition of the “State of Palestine” an act of empty symbolism that will not advance the peace process. “Sweden’s misguided act will further complicate the quest for peace by telling the Palestinians they can skip the negotiating table with Israel, while telling Israel
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It approached the mythic stories of conflict between giants. Or maybe between a giant and a midget, or David and Goliath. Perhaps just a street brawl among ruffians. Whatever image, and whoever is defined as giant, midget, David, Goliath or a ruffian, it occupied the pundits until a shooting of a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastALBANY, New York (Press Release)–Applications are now being accepted for the 29th year of the Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel (BYFI) . The Bronfman Fellowships selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel between the summer of Fellows’ junior and senior years of high school.
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Middle East
CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — The Jewish Collaborative of San Diego (JCoSD) has dedicated its offices and temporary sanctuary at 5297 Balfour Ct, Suite 203, with a ceremony affixing the mezuzot on outdoor and inside doorways. Led by Rabbi Josh Burrows and Rabbi/ Cantor Gabi Arad , husband and wife, the new congregation forms chavurot
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) A well-known Temple Mount activist was seriously wounded in a shooting on Derech Hevron Street in Jerusalem late Wednesday night and is being treated for serious wounds in Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital. Rabbi Yehuda Glick, 49, of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation was shot at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leaders stated on Wednesday, October 29: “We are deeply concerned by a number of recent public and private criticisms, personal insults and inappropriate characterizations emanating from official sources. These often anonymous, but no
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Middle East, USA
By Marlene Rissman SAN DIEGO — There is nothing like music to open the heart and awaken quieted passions. And this is what we experienced Tuesday night, Oct. 28, as the powerful and moving voice the chief cantor of the IDF, Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, and the beautiful voices of Cantor Netanel Baram, singer Jonathan
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Middle East, USAMEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Between Gaza and Berlin Those two place names signify so many different views, concepts and even worlds, seeming to encapsulate the distinct worldviews that are so much a part of our life, here in Israel. In a local and very provincial sense these are the names of two roads in Rechavia, the Jerusalem
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East