International

English- speaking immigrants honored for service to Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The 2014 Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prizes were awarded Thursday, May 15 at an official ceremony in the Knesset, hosted by the Speaker of the Knesset MK Yuli (Yoel) Edelstein. Nefesh B’Nefesh works in partnership with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF […]

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Middle East, USA

Recipients of Bronfman Fellowships announced

DELMAR, New York (Press Release)–The Bronfman Fellowships has selected its 28th cohort of high school students, among them a varsity hockey player who founded a popular prayer service at her school; a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer who has performed at Lincoln Center; an avid participant in Revolutionary War reenactments; and a budding scientist who works

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Baird: Canada supports Israel because it is right to do

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told the AJC Global Forum that his nation favors a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,“ but “there can be no constructive discussion with anyone wedded to Israel’s destruction. There can be no bargaining over Israel’s existence.” Addressing the Global Forum closing plenary session, Baird

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Owner of demolished home remains in Ma’ale Rehavam

By Anav Silverman MA’ALE REHAVAM, Israel — Moriya Kaniel and her three children were among three Israeli families who were ordered to evacuate their homes in Ma’ale Rehavam because of a court-ordered home demolition operation carried out by Israeli security forces on Wednesday, May 15. Eight buildings including the homes of three Israeli families were

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Middle East

Stealth anti-Semitism in middle school

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — By this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students to “read and discuss multiple,

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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

AMCHA Initiative to UC Regents: Protect Jewish students

SACRAMENTO, California  (Press Release) – Shocked at UCLA’s recent refusal to protect Jewish students, AMCHA Initiative represented seven organizations at Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting, demanding the Regents, President Janet Napolitano and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block intervene against0000000000000000 the bullying and intimidation tactics of UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). A letter from AMCHA Initiative, the

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Lawyers: U.N. violated int’l law by recognizing Palestine

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM  (TNA) – Lawyers have sent a letter to Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, requesting that the UN review and reconsider any acceptance by the UN of the Palestinian requests for accession to international conventions, pending fulfillment of the legal and moral requirements set out in international law and practice. On

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International, Middle East

JNS news briefs: May 15, 2014

Israel seeking recognition of Yom Kippur as U.N. holiday (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar. The U.N. officially recognizes 10 holidays, including Christmas and Eid al-Fitr. Absent from the official holidays is a Jewish one. A holiday at

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International

Israel’s former PM sentenced to jail, current P.M. may eliminate presidency after Shimon Peres’ term expires

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics being what it is, not every day is a time for celebration. Not even in the Promised Land. A lower court has concluded its work on the files of Ehud Olmert and several of his cohorts in one cluster of the charges pending against the former Prime Minister. There

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Sanders forwards thousands of Internet protects to FCC

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As part of a torrent of criticism pouring into the Federal Communications Commission, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) yesterday delivered to the FCC nearly 19,000 comments from consumers demanding a free and open Internet. In advance of a Thursday meeting of the FCC, Sanders had invited visitors to use a form on his Senate

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USA

Schiff lectures top Turkish officials on Armenian genocide

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) –As part of a Congressional Delegation to the Middle East and Asia focused on terrorism, homeland security and the war in Syria, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) had separate meetings with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gul and other Turkish high government officials. In his meeting with the Prime Minister,

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Middle East, USA

Peres offers sympathy, aid, for Turkish mining victims

JERUSALEM (Press Release) –Israel’s President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, May 14, sent a letter of condolence to his Turkish counterpart President Abdullah Gül in the wake of the mining disaster near Soma, Turkey, where at least 245 people were believed killed following a mine explosion. Peres wrote: “Your Excellency, “I wish to extend my deepest condolences,

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Middle East