WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. President Barack Obama issued this statement for Yom HaShoah 2016: Today, on Yom HaShoah, we solemnly remember the six million Jews and the millions of others murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. On this day, we honor the memory of the millions of individuals – the mothers and […]
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There hasn’t been Jewish unity since our ancestors began writing some 3,000 years ago. We can guess that Jewish literacy has something to do with Jewish creativity, individual capacity to express oneself freely, tolerance or enthusiasm for dispute, as well as economic success. Roots of self doubt and being disputatious
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on the occasion of Yom HaShoah: Teresa and I join all Americans in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, we pause to reflect on the irredeemable loss of six million Jews and countless Poles, Roma, LGBT people, Jehovah’s
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Joseph Werk embarks on his 20th stint as a Sar-El volunteer Joseph Werk displays the certificate recognizing his service as a veteran Sar-El volunteer. Werk receives his service pin as a Sar-El volunteer in May 2014. Joseph Werk is getting ready for his May 14 departure for Israel, where he will serve for three weeks
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Middle East, USALoss drove her to action to ‘protect the values this country was built on’ Devorah Halberstam, the mother of 16-year-old terror victim Ari Halberstam, said, “I think of Ari as everyone’s child and I think of everyone’s child as my own because organized terror does not differentiate between one belief and another.” Photo by Robert
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BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut/PRNewswire/ — A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday, May 3, against Rabbi Daniel Greer, a prominent member of the Orthodox Jewish community in New Haven and the former New Haven City Police Commissioner. The other defendants in the lawsuit are Yeshiva of New Haven, Inc. and The Gan School, Inc., both accused of…
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USAI came to generous Texas from Karachi, Pakistan to get my graduate degree in June of 1985 in the sweltering, 105-degree heat. I loved it. I met my beautiful wife, a first generation Mexican-American who came from a Catholic immigrant family, in school. And I loved it more. After leaving university, I got my first
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USANEW YORK (AJC)– In observance of Yom HaShoah, which begins Wednesday evening, May 4, the American Jewish Committee issued the following statement: WE REMEMBER In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 69 years
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International, Jewish History, USARepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said Israel should continue building in Judea and Samaria, insisting the Jewish state should “keep moving forward” in response to Arab terrorism. Speaking to the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump emphasized his support for the State of Israel, and appeared to veer away from previous comments in which he declared
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Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAEvery election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presidential election, the big question was whether America could elect a non-white man — in this case, an African-American — as president. Up until then, all U.S. presidents had been white Christian males
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International, USARepublican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday said he would love to broker a peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, The Jewish Insider reported. Trump”s comments came during a campaign rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, where primaries will be held on Tuesday. Trump said that seeing Israel and the Palestinians sign on a
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BOSTON — When teacher Mary Beth Donovan prepared her students to read Anne Frank’s diary 10 years ago, she screened a selection of the famous newsreel clips shot during the liberation of Nazi camps in 1945. Astoundingly, after watching the films, some of Donovan’s students began referring to the genocide and Anne Frank as “fake”
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