Published by DPA Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived on Thursday in Bahrain, marking the first official visit by an Israeli minister since the two countries established ties last year. The Israeli official was welcomed by his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif al-Zayani. “We arrived in Bahrain. Very proud to repre sent Israel on the first official […]
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Middle East
Published by Miami Herald MIAMI — Before FBI agents and Fort Lauderdale police arrested Paul Miller at his home in March, the U.S. Justice Department says, he made clear he would back starting “a race-based civil war in the United States.” The white supremacist won’t be starting anything soon other than prison jobs and his
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USA
Intrigue, maneuvering, scheming, plotting, and murder highlight the years from Herod’s reign to the Jewish rebellion against Rome, beginning in 66. Herod, the Great, acting more like the King of the Jews than a Jewish king, ascended to the throne in 37 BCE. His rule lasted forty-one years. [Fred Reiss, Ed.D]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History, Middle East
The first time my parents took me on a trip with them I was eight years old and living in Chicago. We were going to Mexico, where I would see, hear, and feel the ocean for the first time (for those that know me, the ocean is one of my favorite temporal experiences in life). But my first memory of this trip — and every trip, henceforth — was sitting before we left. [Danielle Levsky]
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International, Lifestyles
Published by The Moderate Voice by Joe Nalven We know right-wing antisemitism by shouts of “you will not replace us.” Left-wing antisemitism is carefully couched in criticism of Israel for “human rights violations.” Left-wing advocates deny antisemitism by citing free speech to criticize another nation; however, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s examples of antisemitism reveal
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USA
Published by Al-Araby Israel is gearing up to take part in Expo 2020 Dubai when the world fair opens Friday, a spokesman said, a year after the UAE and the Jewish state normalised ties. “We’re very happy to be here,” Menachem Gantz told AFP, the spokesman of Israel’s Pavilion at the six-month world fair. “This
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Middle East
Published by Al-Araby The Czech defence ministry will buy a short- and medium-range air defence system made by Israeli state-owned supplier Rafael, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said it had informed the cabinet it would conclude a government-to-government deal to buy Rafael’s SPYDER Short Range Air Defence/Medium Range Surface to Air Missile
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International
Published by Reuters By Michelle Nichols, Matt Spetalnick and Stephen Farrell NEW YORK (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that Iran had crossed “all red lines” in its nuclear program and vowed that Israel would not allow Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon. In his first speech to the United Nations General
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Middle East
In response to the rise of antisemitism and other forms of discrimination in the United States, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and L’Oréal USA are partnering on an education initiative designed to raise awareness and promote understanding about the Holocaust among thousands of students in American classrooms. [ADL News Release]
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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Thousands of Californians on Monday petitioned Governor Gavin Newsom to veto AB 101, a bill mandating an ethnic studies high school graduation requirement. The California legislature recently voted to advance AB 101, and the bill now heads to Newsom, who has until Oct. 10 to act. [AMCHA Initiative news release]
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
A political candidate in Virginia, a television game show host, and a Washington, D.C. historian seem to think that jokes about “Jewish noses” are funny. They’re not. In fact, they’re dangerous. [Moshe Phillips]
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
Do you worry that Jew-hatred might affect your comfortable American life? Do you think that Jew-haters will ignore you because your “Jewishness” is unimportant for you? If not, why not? Does this worry – if you feel it – fall below your concern for abortion legislation, diversity and gender issues, climate change policies, etc.? With this in mind, it’s time to wake up to the “new” West. [Steve Kramer]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
Do you want to think big? Focus on what Mahmoud Abbas said in a recorded speech delivered to the United Nations in New York. If Israel doesn’t withdraw completely from the West Bank and East Jerusalem (he also said Gaza, but Israel has already withdrawn from there) within a year, Palestine will charge Israel with heinous crimes before the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile, he’s volunteering to negotiate final borders. The 1967 lines, wherever they are, figure in his threat. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Lifestyles, Middle East
During the 1870’s, the population of Nevada’s legendary Comstock Lode, then at the height of mining fever, surged to nearly 25,000. In the canyons and down the slopes, housing was scarce, the noise was unceasing, the air nearly unbreathable and the violence endemic.1 Between them, the towns of Virginia City and Gold Hill were a crowded jumble of miners’ cabins, stamp mills, luxury mansions, hotels, restaurants, saloons, stores and stables, all built over an underground city of mining tunnels, adits and shafts. These underground works ultimately produced over 300 million dollars’ worth of precious ore that built the city of San Francisco and made fabulous fortunes for the fortunate. Among this crowd of fortune-seekers lived a Jewish community of about 500, and one of its most influential members was a butcher from Germany named Mark Strouse (1845-1898). [Susan E. James, Ph.D]
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Business & Finance, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA