By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — It’s done. U.S. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed. In the run up to the inauguration of the deal in 2015, then President Barack Obama promised that the
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –A Florida Jewish congregation again defeated a discriminatory lawsuit attempting to block them from building a house of worship. LateMonday, in Gagliardi v. The City of Boca Raton, Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit protected the Chabad of East Boca Raton’s ability to build a new synagogue
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s President Macron or Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to preserve the deal. Instead, he appears to have taken Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s advice to decertify the
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the United States was withdrawing from the multinational agreement (JCPOA) with Iran that was intended to curb that nation’s march toward nuclear weapon production. Following are his speech plus a position paper issued by the White House in support of the President’s decision. At the
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International, Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology, which rallies support for an academic institution that is at the forefront of empowering women in Israeli society, Sunday night featured “Big Bang Theory” star actress Mayim Bialik as the keynote speaker at its New York City gala dinner. Over 400 people gathered at Lincoln
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The second greatest bike race was replete with significance in 2018. One man deservedly garnered praise for bringing the Giro d’Italia, a cycling race with a 110-year history, to Israel, the first time it has started outside of Europe. Sylvan Adams is an Israeli-Canadian real estate investor with a
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Kever Shmuel and/or Nebi Samwil is one of the sites that includes within its stories the long and controversial history of this place, as well as ongoing disputes about who did what, and its justification or suitability for moral condemnation. The place is the highest point in the area of
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle East
Following are remarks prepared by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, for the opening of that organization’s Leadership Conference in Washington, which began on Sunday, May 6. By Jonathan Greenblatt WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few weeks ago, I was speaking to a friend of mine – catching him up about all we
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The world is full of surprises. I was stunned to read about a New York Times condemnation of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas. The name of the Article was, “Let Abbas’s Vile Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader.”[1] Abbas went on record saying that the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA
By Edwin Black NEW YORK — For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel. His mission was not just to chronicle the dispossession and repossession of a people, as
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Edwin Black, Middle East
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Currently showing at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is an exhibition by Zoya Cherkassky, who was born in Russia and immigrated to Israel with her family in the 1990s. The Cherkasskys were part of the million-strong influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia who were finally able to leave
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is the story of a green banana. I like green bananas, not so green that they taste bitter, but not so yellow that they are mushy. When I came into our dining room this morning for breakfast at 6:45 am, which is when a small group
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev(BGU), and the United States provided significant evidence that sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone (BP3) causes coral bleaching at sites in Hawaii, Eilat, Israel, and the Caribbean, leading to a ban which passed Thursday in the Hawaii state legislature, Under the new legislation, which
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release)—Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), a national commemoration of the contributions that Americans Jews have made to the fabric of our nation’s history, culture, and society. The theme for the May 2018 celebration is American Jews and Music, which focuses on the rich and deep influence of American Jews on American music
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA