A new Tel Aviv University study has found that due to the temperature difference across the Mediterranean Sea, species of marine animals such as fish, crustaceans and mollusks (such as squid) are changing their habitats to live tens of meters deeper in cooler waters. [Tel Aviv University]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share
New York state Jews who live in the Bronx’s Riverdale section or Scarsdale and New Rochelle in Westchester County, not to mention their non-Jewish neighbors, almost lost their infrastructure funding thanks to their congressman, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. He and five other so-called “progressive” Democrats would have tanked the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last Friday if not for the intervention of 13 Republicans in the House of Representatives. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — On November 10, StandWithUs, along with Jessica Shafran and Raphi Cooper, current students attending the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and Silberman alumna Morr Mazal Barton, submitted a complaint against the Silberman School and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) The Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command has recently practiced the evacuation of a hospital in northern Israel under a heavy missile attack during a simulated war in order to create space in the hospital for treating wounded civilians and military members. The drill was conducted as part of the Home
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Middle East
Published by DPA A new Holocaust memorial in Vienna commemorating the Jews from Austria murdered by the Nazis was inaugurated on Tuesday. The 64,440 names are inscribed on 160 granite tablets placed in an oval in a park near the University of Vienna. Tuesday marks the anniversary of the Nazi pogroms in 1938 known as
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International
By William Daroff (JNS) This week, Jewish communities around the world remember the 83rd anniversary of Pogromnacht (Kristallnacht), when the Nazis and their supporters carried out an anti-Jewish pogrom throughout Germany, decimating thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, neighborhoods and synagogues, and forcing as many as 30,000 Jews into concentration camps, never to return. Authorities sanctioned and
From Pogromnacht to Now: 83 Years of Antisemitism Read More »
International, USA
A friend in the US recently asked me what I thought about Israel’s new government. My replay: It’s a government! Finally, after four elections in two years, the victory of a wide-ranging coalition government last spring meant that there was a good chance the election frenzy would end. The prerequisite for the government’s survival was to pass a budget before mid-November. If not, new elections would be scheduled and the government would be reduced to “caretaker” status only. [Steve Kramer]
At Long Last, Israel Has a Working Government Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer
There have been several events worth mentioning. We have a budget. For the first time in several years. Bibi’s government couldn’t, or wouldn’t pass a budget bill, and continued with partial enactments, providing moneys needed to continue or expand certain services. Now, with a budget approved, the present government evades a limit on its existence, tied by legislation to having enacted a budget. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
Wall-to-Wall Israeli Coalition Holds Firm on Budget Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, USA
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel stepped up its public opposition on Saturday to a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to reopen a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, suggesting such a mission should be in the occupied West Bank. Under former President Donald Trump, Washington delighted Israelis and outraged
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Middle East
Published by DPA The 84-year-old Rabbi Israel Meir Lau is to remain chairman of the advisory board of the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for another four years. The Israeli government approved a request to this effect by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday, according to his office. Lau is Israel’s former chief rabbi.
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Middle East
Abe Goldberg’s mother, Bronia, and stepfather Harry Sajgeman died within three months of each other in the mid-1980s, but due perhaps to a communications error, most people at Tifereth Israel Synagogue were unaware that he and his wife, Bea, were sitting shiva, alone, at their home. Because the Goldbergs lacked the ten Jewish adults necessary to say kaddish during the seven-day mourning period, they were left feeling forlorn. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, San Diego County, USA
Seacrest Village Retirement Community dedicated a portable Aron Kodesh (Holy Ark) donated by Jeanne Gold in memory of her late husband Rabbi Aaron S. Gold at Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, Nov. 5. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
an Diegan Gary E. Jacobs, chair of the board of JCC Association of North America, and I spent a memorable couple of days in Austin, Texas, this week visiting Shalom Austin, a young and remarkable JCC and one of roughly 35 integrated communities across the JCC Movement. Integrated communities are those in which the JCC is part of a shared corporate structure that includes a Jewish Federation and other organizations and institutions, which vary by community. In Austin, the configuration includes Jewish Family Service and the Jewish Community Foundation. [Doron Krakow]
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San Diego County, USA
Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) San Diego is pleased to announce that local JNFuture President and Community Campaign Chair, Kayla Globerson, has been accepted into the World Zionist Organization’s prestigious Zionist Leadership Academy. A joint initiative of JNF and the World Zionist Organization, the Zionist Leadership Academy is an intensive 10-month program for young professionals widely influential within their respective Jewish communities designed to train and develop a cohesive team of talented Zionist leaders who can play a significant role in their communities. [Jewish National Fund]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA