International

No Time to Dress: Lifesaving Rescue Made in Pajamas

Just after 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, a 92-year-old woman was riding in a car with her daughter and granddaughter near the train station in Modi’in when she suddenly lost consciousness. Her conscientious daughter and granddaughter pulled the car over and called emergency services for help while attempting to perform CPR on the elderly matriarch in the car.  United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Noemie Dray was at her home in Modi’in when the emergency took place. Noemie was asleep after a late-night shift in the Pediatric Ward of Sheba Hospital where she works when she isn’t attending classes. Noemie heard the alert from her emergency communications device, got up, and ran out of the house, without even having time to change clothes.  [United Hatzalah]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Psychologist Advocates for Recognition of The Ghost Army

Bert Edelstein elevated his hand one foot above the table at which he was sitting.  “My correspondence file is almost this thick,” he commented. He sent letters to the House of Representatives and the Senate.  After the House adopted legislation to recognize the Ghost Army with a Congressional Gold Medal, the focus turned to the U.S. Senate.  Under the rules, for the measure even to be considered in committee, it must have at least 67 co-sponsors — two-thirds of the full Senate.  The count is getting closer and closer. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Kansas Republican leaders condemn comparisons of COVID-19 mandates and Holocaust

Published by The Kansas City Star TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Republican leaders rejected comparisons of COVID-19 vaccine requirements to the Holocaust Friday after a former Kansas City, Kansas, mayoral candidate donned a yellow star to testify on the Legislature’s plans to resist federal rules. Two statements, posted to social media by Senate President Ty Masterson

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USA

Jewish Veterans Swap Favorite Stories of Military Times

After raising the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, military veterans at  Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, shared some of the happier stories about their time in the military or just afterwards. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

In Australia, Veterans Day is Remembrance Day

The annual Remembrance Day commemoration on 11th November, not only marks the day when World War One officially ended, commemorating those who served and made the ultimate scarify in a war over a century ago, but is an continuing tribute to all who served in subsequent wars and conflicts in which Australian personal were involved. [Garry Fabian]

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International, Jewish History

‘Progressive Caucus’ Deserted Their Constituents

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

StandWithUs, with Students and Alumna, Submits Title VI Complaint Against Hunter College

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

From Pogromnacht to Now: 83 Years of Antisemitism

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

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International, USA

At Long Last, Israel Has a Working Government

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]

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Wall-to-Wall Israeli Coalition Holds Firm on Budget

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]

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

Israel suggests U.S open consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, not Jerusalem

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