International

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 26, 2018 (3 items)

Knesset passes law forbidding convicted terrorists from being released from prison early The Knesset passed a law on Tuesday night that will prevent the early release of convicted terrorists serving sentences in prison. The legislation, proposed by MKs Anat Berko (Likud) and Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu), will deny terrorists the ability to be released after

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 24, 2018 (3 items)

DonorBox removes BDS funding campaign from its site Shurat HaDin announced it has “achieved another important legal victory against the BDS movement as we finish the year! We managed to shut down a vital crowdfunding channel for the central boycott organization, the BDS National Committee (BNC), located in Ramallah. Last week, we sent urgent cease

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

Why Abbas disbanded the Palestinian parliament

By Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch (From Palestinian Media Watch) JERUSALEM — After 12 years, during which the Palestinian Parliament (Legislative Council, PLC) has not met, Mahmoud Abbas suddenly announced on Saturday, that the Palestinian Constitutional Court had dissolved the PA parliament: Abbas: “The [PA] Parliament (Legislative Council), which has not been active for 12

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Middle East

War on Israel’s Syrian front more likely with U.S. pullout

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Trump supporters in Israel seem to have gone silent after his announcement that he’s bringing home the remaining 2,200 American soldiers in Syria which will give Iran a freer hand to attack us here, either directly or by its proxies. All that Trump’s great fan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, could

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 21, 2018 (4 items)

Orthodox Jewish groups support Latin Cross on public property in Maryland In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today with the US Supreme Court, national Orthodox Jewish organizations defended the constitutionality of a governmental war memorial in the shape of a large Latin cross by citing and explaining six historic rabbinic rulings issued between the 13th and

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Pullout from Syria gives Iran freer hand in Mideast

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the midst of the Vietnam War, Sen. George Aiken is reported to have said, “Let’s just declare victory and get out.”  In October, President Donald Trump did “declare victory” over ISIS.  “I want to get out,” the president said.  “I want to bring our troops back home.  I want to start rebuilding

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Yes, Virginia, there are Jews there too

By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — As an ESL teacher who has worked for 35 years with people from all over the world, I was very interested in going to see the presentation at the Gotthelf Gallery at the JCC last Monday evening on December 17th. First, there was the presentation by civil rights attorney

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County

Obituaries and the Greatest Generation

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Holocaust Survivors are our Greatest Generation. Their resilience and immigrant contribution to American life is formidable and compelling. The Bay Area is home to between 210,000, and 350,000 Jews. During 2018, the biweekly J of Northern California published 135 obituaries, 72 men and 63 women, ages 30 to

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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, Oliver Pollak, USA