International

Blinken Congratulates Israel on 74th Independence Day

(JNS) As Israel celebrates 74 years since its independence, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations in a statement on Wednesday. Blinken said the relationship between the United States and Israel is unshakeable, based on shared democratic ideals. “The United States remains steadfast in its commitment to Israel’s security and deeply values our

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Middle East, USA

An Independence Day Question: Why Do Arabs Riot on the Temple Mount?

By Moshe Dann (JNS) Arab riots on the Temple Mount in opposition to any Jewish presence on the Jewish people’s most holy site have exposed what the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about. It’s not about the lack of a Palestinian state or Israeli concessions to the PLO, Hamas or other terrorist organizations. It’s about what

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Middle East, Opinion

Leading Research Collaboration in Israel Unveils New Name

(JNS) A historic partnership between the University of Arizona, Jewish National Fund-USA and farmers in the Arava Valley, has been renamed as the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, in honor of a $1 million commitment made to the Institute by philanthropists Beth and Mike Kasser. “If you have enough water, then

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book Puts the ‘Land’ in the Land of Israel

Essentials of the Land of Israel, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London, ©2022, ISBN 978-1-91267-686-6, p. 186, plus biography and index, $69.75. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Anyone perusing the table of contents of Essentials of the Land of Israel by Brandon Marlon, a prolific, award-winning Canadian-Israeli author, would correctly conclude the book’s value

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East, Travel and Food

Who Actually Wrote the Harvard Crimson’s Pro-BDS Editorial?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Democracy from the Perspective of a Native of a Totalitarian State: From Kiev to Israel

By Alex Gordon, Ph.D HAIFA, Israel — The Jews came out of Egypt long ago, they came out of the Soviet Union, but they did not go out of fashion at all: at every stage of history someone was bound to seek to throw them into the sea. The Jews, however, had already been to

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Alex Gordon, International, Opinion

This Yom Ha’Atzmaut, I’m Talking to My First-Grader About Palestinians

By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he

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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Assassinated Gay Jewish Political Leader Harvey Milk Is Honored by the U.S. Navy

The “christening” ceremony featured a principal ceremonial address by Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, as well as remarks by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro; Vice Admiral Jeffrey Hughes, deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development; and Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer, commander of the Military Sealift Command. Sponsors of the ship were U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with Milk, and Paula Neira, clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health. Neira shattered a bottle of sparkling wine across the ship’s bow in a time-honored Navy tradition. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Celebrities, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Graduation Day at the Radiation Treatment Center

Today, April 29, 2022, was a bellringing day for me at the Jacobs Medical Center at UCSD Health Sciences.  I completed a 33-day course of radiation in the hope of arresting a meningioma that was growing on top of my brain.  On July 1, I will have an MRI to learn how well the treatment worked. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Can the United Nations Survive the War in Ukraine?

By Ben Cohen (JNS) A recent letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior U.N. officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Such an outcome would mean that “the U.N. becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor,

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International, Opinion

In Groundbreaking Step, Muslim Delegation Participates in 2022 March of the Living

By David Isaac (JNS) POLAND—A Muslim group including participants from across the Arab world took part for the first time in the International March of the Living, the annual 1.9-mile walk from the concentration camp at Auschwitz to the extermination camp of Birkenau in Poland to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The precedent-setting move

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International, Middle East

Jewish World War II Heroes Finally Rest Under the Star of David

By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — Reminiscing about a 2015 visit to the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, in Margraten, I wrote, “Walking among the more than 8,000 white marble crosses and Star of David headstones laid out in long, silent curves across the pristine verdant lawn, we could not be

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA