International

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 21, 2018 (2 items)

Lawfare Project informs Airbnb it may face a lawsuit for delisting Israeli West Bank properties On Monday, home-rental company Airbnb announced that it was removing Israeli West Bank property listings. The decision follows years of pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which tirelessly advocates for boycotts and other unlawful discriminatory business

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Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 20, 2018 (3 items)

Joint Hindu- Jewish celebration held for respective festivals of lights It was standing-room only for 425 Hindus and Jews who made a bit of history celebrating both Diwali and Chanukah at the Hindu-Jewish Festival of Lights at Temple Beth-El in Northbrook, IL on November 18.  The event not only celebrated the two holidays, which occur

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 19, 2018 (4 items)

Israeli law group demands Facebook remove Hamas account Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin has placed Facebook and its Israeli branch under formal legal notice for allowing Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV to maintain Facebook and Instagram accounts. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Israel general manager Adi Soffer-Teeri, Shurat HaDin claims that Facebook’s continual support

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Veracity questioned of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz’

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — In a personal blog post I published in September I asked my readers if the current bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, a Holocaust sex and romance “novel” concocted by a well-intentioned but somewhat nervy non-Jewish screenwriter in Australia, was ever going to be called in question by literary critics

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

Gaza, not corruption, prompts challenge to Netanyahu

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — More than a week ago, the police recommended indictments of a half-dozen prominent Israelis. The issue concerned the purchase of submarines and other warships from Thyssen Krupp, a German firm in the port of Kiel. Involved in the police recommendation were a cousin and attorney of The Prime Minister, a former

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 18, 2018 (2 items)

Kentucky governor receives StandWithUs plauditsStandWithUs has commended Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin for signing into law an executive order barring state agencies from doing business with companies which boycott Israel. The new executive order prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel and other countries with which the U.S. has free trade agreements. During the

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International, Middle East, USA

Women of the Wall envoy details struggle for equality

By David Ogul SAN DIEGO — It’s all about equality. That was the message from Cheryl Temkin, an executive member of the Speakers Bureau for the Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall, who was the featured speaker Nov. 16 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego following Kabbalat Shabbat services. Just months after Israeli paratroopers liberated Jerusalem’s

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David Ogul, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County

We came to Pittsburgh

By Doron Krakow PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — On Tuesday, more than 100 Jewish community leaders from across the continent gathered in Pittsburgh for a day of solidarity with the beleaguered Jewish community there, just 17 days after the massacre of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Squirrel Hill. We came representing Jewish federations, Jewish family

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Jewish History, USA