International

Plea Deal Will Keep Chabad of Poway Shooter Behind Bars for Life

ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) San Diego Regional Office welcomed Tuesday’s announcement by San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan that they have reached a plea deal with the accused Poway Chabad synagogue shooter, which will see the suspect spend the rest of his life behind bars. [Anti-Defamation League news release]

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Short Story Focuses on IBM’s Business With the Nazis

Short story writer Clive Aaron Gill presents the discovery of the connection between IBM and the Holocaust in a pair of moral dilemmas, faced first by a grandfather and much later by his granddaughter Rebecca, whom we first meet as a school girl and later as a public relations executive for a charitable organization. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Edwin Black, USA

Sub-Saharan African Migration into Morocco

Entering Morocco, Sub-Saharan African migrants find themselves at a crossroads. There is the promise of an economic future waiting for them in Europe, but the path to it is perilous. They require either an assurance of asylum status or some familial relationship with a European in order to enter into Europe without any problems. Unfortunately, many will have neither, forcing them into dangerous and irregular means of entry into Europe, or at times leading them to stay in Morocco. [Max Berengaut]

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International

Journalists, activists ensnared in Israeli spyware scandal

Published by AFP Paris (AFP) – European politicians and media groups voiced outrage Monday over reports that an Israeli firm supplied phone malware used by governments to spy on activists, journalists, lawyers and politicians in several countries. The NSO Group and its Pegasus malware — capable of switching on a phone’s camera or microphone and

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Middle East

Ben & Jerry’s to end to ice cream sales in Palestinian territories

Published by New York Daily News Ben & Jerry’s announced Monday that it would stop selling ice cream in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, calling its business dealings in the region “inconsistent with our values.” The socially progressive ice cream giant did not elaborate on what exactly led to the decision, but the announcement ends the

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Middle East

Novel Portrays Catskill’s Post-Borscht Belt Era

This is an American Jewish novel about two families coming to terms with the fact that the fictional resort that best friends Benny Goldman and Amos Weingold founded in the Catskill Mountains has long passed its prime. The Golden Hotel no longer is booked to capacity, nor even near capacity, and the once famous Borscht Belt resort has quite obvious wear and tear to show its decline. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, USA

Beyond Functionality: Modern and Contemporary Ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Sam Ben-Meir, Ph.D NEW YORK — What are the aesthetic, sensuous, and expressive possibilities inherent in clay as a material substance in all its physicality? How is it possible that ceramics can restore, or rather reconfigure and remake our relationship to the natural world? These are among the fundamental questions posed by “Shapes from

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

US court finds Iranian banks liable for deadly terror attack against American citizens in Israel

(July 15, 2021 / JNS) A U.S. federal court found the Iranian banks — Merkazi, Melli, and Saderat — liable for the murder carried out by Hamas against U.S. citizens Eitam Henkin and his wife Na’ama in Israel in 2015. Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner and MM LAW LLC won the court battle on Monday

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Middle East, USA

Social ties are inherited among spotted hyenas, Israeli research reveals

RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) – Social networks among animals are critical to various aspects of their lives, including reproductive success and survival, and could even teach us more about human relationships. Dr. Amiyaal Ilany, a biologist at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, integrates behavioral ecology,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel redoubles efforts for second attempt to land on moon

By Josh Hasten (July 15, 2021 / JNS) SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit organization that strives to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and dreamers through innovative space missions, announced this week that it has secured crucial funding towards the launch of the “Beresheet 2” Spacecraft mission in 2024 with the goal of sending Israel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Good News from Israel (July 18, 2021)

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — In the 18th July 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:  Israeli tech restores the sense of touch and helps the blind to “see.” Celebrating Israel’s first deaf MK and its first visually impaired doctor. Israel’s second moonshot project gets huge funding boost. Israeli scientists have made

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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA

Congress doubles funding request for assistance to Holocaust survivors

(July 14, 2021 / JNS) The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education recommended a $10 million funding increase on Tuesday for the Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program (HASP) for the fiscal year 2022. According to a news release from the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the program is a public-private

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