International

Hungarian-Born Skier Achieves Israel’s Best Winter Olympics Finish

(JNS) Barnabas Szollos achieved Israel’s best-ever individual finish at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Thursday when he came in sixth place overall in the men’s alpine combined. The 23-year-old Hungarian-born skier, who’s representing Israel in his Olympic debut, finished second in the slalom portion of the race and 11th in the downhill section, which […]

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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

University of Haifa’s US Fundraising Arm Adds 2 Team Members, Including Southern California’s Dahnie Brandes

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — The American Society of the University of Haifa (ASUH) has added two team members who will strengthen its community engagement efforts. Dahnie Brandes brings a unique combination of passion for changemaking, advocating for Israel and promoting marine sustainability to a new role in which he is charged with expanding ASUH’s

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israel Maintaining Delicate Balancing Act Over Russia-Ukraine Tensions

By Israel Kasnett (JNS) The perceived Western European notion that a major war cannot again occur on the continent is quickly dissipating as Russia continues to threaten war with Ukraine. Even with the flurry of diplomatic activity on the part of the United States and Europe to reduce tensions, the threat is not going away

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International, Middle East

German Foreign Minister Assures Israel of Support, Criticizes Settlements

Published by DPA German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock used her first official visit to Israel to assure Israeli leaders of Germany’s determination to fight anti-Semitism and criticize the settlement building backed by the current premier, Naftali Bennett. During a meeting with her counterpart Yair Lapid, Baerbock said that Israel’s security remained of fundamental importance to

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International, Middle East

Not Just in the Bible: Israeli Researchers’ Novel Explanation for Locust Swarming

(JNS) Locust swarms have been a major cause of famine from ancient times right up to the present day. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have shown that locusts’ microbiomes may play a role in their aggregation behavior. Specifically, the researchers found that bacteria called Weissella, almost completely absent from the microbiome of solitary

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust Memorial Says It’s Unlikely Purported ‘Auschwitz Tattoo Kit’ Was Used on Jews

Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A partial tattoo kit offered at auction in Israel as an Auschwitz artefact is highly unlikely to have been used on Jews at the Nazi concentration camp, a court-ordered investigation has found following outcry from Holocaust survivors. The eight fingernail-sized steel dies, each lined with pins

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Holocaust, Middle East

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Feast

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Being able to hear all five Beethoven piano concerti played on two successive evenings was a rare treat. This was provided by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Steven Sloane, and brought Beethoven’s immense oeuvre in this realm into sharp and impressive perspective. On the first evening

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Dissecting the Ongoing Wave of Antisemitism

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Never would we expect Nazis assaulting an American Jew near Disney World. Or anywhere else in this nation. Yet authorities report that Nazis did in Orlando nearly two weeks ago what Nazis commonly did in Germany 85 years ago. Furthermore, the victim – identified as David Newstat, a student

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Bruce Ticker, Holocaust, International, Middle East, Opinion, USA

StandWithUs Thanks Rep. Lieu for Spearheading Bipartisan Letter on Title VI and Antisemitism

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs would like to express sincere gratitude to Congressman Ted Lieu (CA-33) for spearheading a bipartisan letter to the United States Department of Education (DOE), asking the DOE to provide much needed technical assistance to the higher educations community about antisemitism, its various manifestations, and the protections to which Jewish

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USA

Amnesty International’s Pseudo-Scholarship

By Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D  BOCA RATON, Florida — In May, while Hamas was firing more than 3,000 deadly rockets from Gaza with the express purpose of murdering Jewish Israelis, members of academic communities around the world were falling over themselves to express their solidarity, not with the beleaguered citizens of the Jewish state again

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International, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Iran Unveils Long-Range Missile as Vienna Nuclear Talks Resume

Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers on Wednesday, state TV reported, a day after Tehran and Washington resumed indirect talks to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal. Iran, which has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East, says its

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International, Middle East

Special Envoy Nominee Lipstadt Vows to Fight Antisemitism ‘Without Fear or Favor’

(JNS) The Biden administration’s nominee Deborah Lipstadt to lead the U.S. State Department’s office that monitors and combats antisemitism appeared in the Senate on Tuesday for her confirmation. Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lipstadt made the case that antisemitism is on the rise. “Increasingly, Jews have been singled out for slander, violence and

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USA

US Hopes to Seal Israel-Lebanon Maritime Agreement

By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) In recent days, Lebanese President Michel Aoun told a U.N. envoy that his country is ready to return to indirect negotiations with Israel over the maritime border between the two countries. Days later, the U.S. envoy to the maritime negotiations, Amos Hochstein, began conducting shuttle diplomacy, involving meetings with Israel’s Energy

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Middle East, USA

2 Potential Successors to Palestinian President Named to Top Posts

Published by Reuters UK RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Two potential successors to 86-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were named on Monday to top posts in the Palestine Liberation Organization at a meeting boycotted by his Islamist rivals. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the PLO’s 141-member Central Council appointed Hussein Al-Sheikh, 61, an Abbas

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Middle East