By Eric Rozenman and Shoshana Bryen The Jewish Policy Center WASHINGTON, D.C. — Psychiatrists tell their patients they have to “name their fears.” A fear that cannot be named cannot be understood or faced. An unnamed threat cannot be defeated. This is particularly true of what is called the threat of “terrorism.” A recent Washington
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International, Middle East, USANorth American rabbis protest Israel’s law forbidding LGBTQ surrogacy Nearly 600 rabbis representing Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish communities from across the United States and Canada signed an open letter that calls on ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel to retract recent homophobic comments and asks the governing coalition of the Knesset to immediately reverse recent
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — There is a lonely purple marker that stands, riddled with bullet holes, near Money, Mississippi. The placard marks the spot where 14-year old Emmett Till, black and doomed, was brutishly dragged, hung, shot, mutilated and then thrown into the nearby Tallahatchie River by rabid white vigilantes. For years
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USABy Steve Kramer YECHIAM, Israel — There’s no end to adventures in Israel, despite it’s relatively small size. The regions of the country are tremendously varied, from the 9,200-foot high Mt. Hermon, to the many valleys nestled between mountains and hills, to the hundreds of miles of beaches at sea level, to the Dead Sea,
Haganah learned an important lesson in Western Galilee Read More »
Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s mid-summer. Lots of people are on vacation. There are several issues bothering us, but perhaps none of them capable of changing things in any drastic way. As the Knesset was getting ready to shut itself down for about two months, it enacted two measures that have continued to cause
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “It’s the economy stupid,” the slogan that helped Bill Clinton to defeat George H. W. Bush to become US President, may help Moshe Kahlon, currently Israel’s finance minister, to become the country’s next prime minister. Whereas Clinton’s inspiration is said to have been James Carville, the American political commentator and
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Middle East
By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — On August 8, 1918, Lieutenant General John Monash in recognition of his leadership in the important battle of Hamel, was knighted in the field by King George V. Military historians claim that this battle shortened the war by 18 months, as the German High Command declared that this underlined that
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International, Obituaries & memorialsBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — If you’d like a comprehensive analysis of Israel’s new Nation State Law, I suggest you contact Professor Howard Adelman about his blog (howarda72@gmail.com). If you’re prepared to settle for only a few impressions, please read on. The question that troubles me is that nobody has ever doubted that Israel
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Middle EastWorld Jewish Congress challenges British Labour party on Anti-Semitism “The World Jewish Congress strongly supports the unified stance of British Jewry in urging the Labour Party, and indeed the government itself, to adopt the working definition of anti-Semitism agreed upon by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance,” said WJC President Ronald S. Lauder. “A solution to
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – We hear often about declining rates of affiliation in the Jewish community, but retailers apparently are not overly concerned. Affiliated or not, many Jews still identify with Jewish traditions, customs, and history, and therein lies some marketing opportunities. For example, Daniela and Gabriela Apeloig have created a new
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA(c) Edwin Black LOS ANGELES –City prosecutor Spencer Hart, who is reviewing the belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel at the University of California-Los Angeles on May 17, has requested additional investigative materials from the UCLA Police, according to a prosecution source. The request on Case 18-1206 was transmitted to UCLA campus Detective
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Edwin Black, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Allie Fischman VALLEJO, California — Ever since last October’s Tubbs fire, which destroyed the majority of our year-around Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, URJ Camp Newman, members of our direct community and the Jewish community as a whole reached out with love and support. They dried our tears with poems, comforted us with
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Travel and Food, USADirect air service on tap between Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv The Israeli-American Council announced Wednesday that it successfully spearheaded a lobbying effort with a broad coalition of organizations to introduce a direct flight between an airport in the greater Washington, D.C. area and Israel. United Airlines will offer nonstop service from Washington Dulles International
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International, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has managed to live next door to it without being part of it. Israel’s relations with Assad the father and Assad the son have been based on deterrence, not peace. Syria knows Israel can eliminate Damascus in an
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA