SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) — On Friday May 25th, in California Superior Court, Judge Richard B. Ulmer, Jr. set a trial date of March 4, 2019 for a lawsuit brought by two Jewish students who allege that San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the Board of Trustees of California State University (CSU), discriminated against them.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — On May 16, about 50 Jewish activists gathered in London’s Parliament Square and, in a public display of phony grief, davened Kaddish. This gathering was less about a genuine empathy for dead Palestinians. It was more an exhibition of Jew hatred for the Jewish state. How do we know
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle EastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli singer Netta won this year’s Eurovision contest singing the song Toy. Though the song was primarily written by Israeli composer Doron Medalie, Netta added some lyrics including a Pokémon reference (according to Medalie, “that’s more her generation than mine”). Netta has spoken about Pokémon characters and what they
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — In 1933 Cologne counted 20,000 Jews. In 1989 it had 1,358 Jews. Today the city of over a million, with the influx of Jews from the Former Soviet Union, has about 4,600 Jews.The Holocaust produced catastrophic trauma. Post-war Germany maintains a leading position in rescuing people from persecution in their homelands, many from majority Moslem
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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In the aftermath of a messy afternoon when some 40,000 Gazans were sent to do havoc on, and if possible over the border into Israel, and IDF personnel killed some 60 and wounded a thousand or two, we’ve been flooded with commentary all over the intellectual map. My Israeli perspective,
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BNEI BRAK, Israel (Press Release) — A few months ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Raphael Elihav Nachshoni was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Hashomer Street in Bnei Brak while he was on his way to respond to a medical emergency. Elihav was critically injured and came very close to death. The doctors who received
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Want to know why Israelis have little patience for Jewish Democrats? First, none of their leaders accepted the invitation to attend the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. Second, Bernie Sanders just agreed with Hamas that they have the right to return to Israel, which would spell
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USASACRAMENTO, California (Press Release)– Amidst disturbing spikes in hate rhetoric and anti-Semitism, the State Assembly on Tuesday will consider a resolution by Assemblymember Marc Levine and the California Legislative Jewish Caucus to renew California’s commitment to Holocaust education and urge Poland to abandon a gag rule that facilitates revisionist history. Assembly Joint Resolution 35 calls
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –When Ronald Reagan proposed the “Zero-Zero Option” for no intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the pundits – and the Europeans – said, “The Russians will never agree to that.” They demanded that Reagan put forward what the Russians could accept – or not aggravate the Russians by putting U.S. Pershing missiles
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© Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — I took four books with 1939-1942 hooks on our Germany-Prague-Vienna trip, more than I usually take, and no New Yorker. The recent article by Alex Ross, “How American Racism Influenced Hitler,” was an almost take it along, but it’s on line. My wife gave me the usual caring
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International, Jewish History, Oliver PollakBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As befits an English woman living abroad, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on television, and reveled in the pomp and circumstance of each shot and every angle. I loved the sight of the beautiful mixed-race bride, her dress, the bridesmaids and page-boys, the various
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania (Press Release) — Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has issued a statement mourning the passing of Professor Bernard Lewis who died on May 19th in Voorhees, New Jersey at 101. Lewis was born in London, and served in the British army in World War II. He devoted his entire career to
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) on Thursday applauded the introduction of bipartisan legislation to help tackle the rising anti-Semitism plaguing U.S. schools. While anti-Semitism is on the rise across the U.S., the problem is particularly rampant on college campuses. “The spike in anti-Semitic incidents
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USABy Joyce Craig and Michele Gendelman LOS ANGELES — The SJP/BDS disruption of the May 17, 2018 meeting of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) was intolerable, and those responsible deserve the strongest condemnation: the SJP and pro-BDS anti-Zionist students violated the First Amendment rights of the attendees, drowned out any attempts at response by using the
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