By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — At seventy, Israel has every reason to celebrate its remarkable achievements that every Israeli can take pride in. Israel’s accomplishments in various walks of life have made the country a global power; it did so with one hand tied behind its back as the country fought wars, battled violent
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastSANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Students at Columbia University, New York University, Syracuse University and University of California Irvine are deploying a repeated and deliberate strategy to create a hostile climate for Jewish and Zionist students and, in turn, suppress any and all pro-Israel expression on campus. Today, more than 60 education and civil rights organizations
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Erich Fromm wondered: How can we account for humankind’s capacity for cruelty and violence? Fromm, like the ethologist Konrad Lorenz, believed that violence is something we share with the animal world—especially when it comes to directing our anger against members of our own species. On the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert issued the following statement on Monday, May 14. The United States is deeply concerned by the harassment and detention of Baha’is by the Houthis in Sana’a, Yemen. The Houthis have targeted the Baha’i community in inflammatory speech along with a wave of detentions,
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — Friends of Yemin Orde announced that $1.15 million has been raised for Yemin Orde Youth Village and Village Way Educational Initiatives at the May 8 Tikkun Ha’Lev Award international gala, co-chaired by Kimberly Taylor Hirschfeld and Jeffrey Hirschfeld o, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. Approximately 420 guests
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Today (May 14) has already been an historic day and it’s barely 9am here in California. Today truth trumped lies and virtue vanquished evil. Today the great Name of G-d was sanctified in His Chosen Land, in His Holy City, by His Chosen People. No, unfortunately, the Holy
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By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — This is an unprecedented moment for women – and women’s health. We are part of a sea change spurred by #MeToo, a seismic shift in what Americans will — and will no longer — tolerate. The #MeToo movement has brought to light the proliferation of sexual harassment and violence.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABEER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) –BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced that a research group led by Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz of the BGU Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, is developing a new molecule to treat cancer that inhibits cancer cell
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — On Monday, May 14, as the United States formally relocated its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a plethora of commentary from government officials, supporters, and opponents. Following are comments which reached the editor’s desk of San Diego Jewish World: THE WHITE HOUSE — President Trump kept his promise
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called for a “Day of Rage” to protest the opening of the American Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. “Days of Rage” actually date to the 2011 uprising in Bahrain and have been seen in Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Hawaii is suffering from the destruction wreaked by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano. Israel has its own volcano, Mount Bental, which last erupted about 50,000 years ago. The volcano is now a tourist site with spectacular views of the Hula Valley, Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The State of Israel marks the 70th anniversary of its official creation today, May 14. Blessed is our beloved historical homeland! In 1948, the United Nations was new, the thermal heat of the European Holocaust of the Jews still pressed, and the global Christian conscience was reeling from
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –There’s more tension in the air than usual in Israel these days. Three danger spots come particularly to mind: (1) Nakba anniversary; (2) the opening of the US embassy; (3) the beginning of Ramadan. Each of these increases the risk of terrorist attacks and should make us all very nervous.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA