By Abraham H. Foxman NEW YORK — As someone who has been critical about the sometimes overheated reaction to what is taking place regarding Jews on campus, I also believe it is vital to monitor the situation closely and to be able to reevaluate as things may change. I still believe that the vast […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — It’s difficult to prove that the demonstration in Jerusalem last night was inspired by what has been happening in Baltimore in recent days, but it had too many similarities for us not to make the connection. A large number of Israelis of Ethiopian origin demonstrated in the centre of
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Middle East, USAIsraeli unemployment rate remains at historic low (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s unemployment rate for March was 5.3 percent, remaining at a historic low for the second consecutive month, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said Thursday. A CBS survey held among 21,900 Israeli adults said that during the first fiscal quarter of this
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Every once in a while I feel a need to revisit what I wrote years ago, describing the US as a developing country. Read that as a place with elements of the Third World. Inspirations came from my youth in Fall River where the average adult hadn’t finished 9th grade, and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For reporters and photographers covering groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, such events can tend to blur together in that there often is little to differentiate one from the other. For the participants however, these events can be important milestones marking the beginning of new chapters in their corporate lives
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power testified to Congress that Israel couldn’t rely on the United States to veto anti-Israel resolutions in the U.N. Security Council, but she tried to soften the blow by saying, “We have a record of standing when it matters with Israel.”
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAKulanu and United Torah Judaism join Netanyahu’s governing coalition (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud party, signed the Kulanu and United Torah Judaism parties into his governing coalition. Likud’s remains in negotiations with three other potential coalition partners—Habayit Hayehudi, Shas, and Yisrael Beiteinu—a week before its deadline to establish a
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Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It appears that world powers are closer than ever to a nuclear deal with Iran, which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry described to the UN on Monday as a “good, comprehensive deal,” and if accomplished, one that “will make the entire world safer.” Hosting South Korean Deputy Prime
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International, Middle East, USAHundreds of Israelis rescued from earthquake-battered Nepal arrive home (JNS.org) A special El Al Airlines flight brought 216 Israelis, including 15 newborn babies, to Israel from earthquake-devastated Nepal on Tuesday afternoon. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal last weekend left untold ruin in its wake. Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said Tuesday that the death
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel’s interests are ranging these days from Nepal to Ethiopia, to a bit of heating up in the north and among the Palestinians. And yes. There is still politics, with senior Likudniks in high fever at having to scrounge for the jobs left over by Bibi’s effort to create a government.
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It should have been a normal trend of thought for the untold thousands of African American soldiers, sailors, and air corpsmen: having served with valor and shed their blood against the forces of the Axis, they aspired to share in the spoils of victory. Black men helped save
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USAPalestinian driver indicted in fatal Jerusalem car-ramming attack (JNS.org) The Jerusalem District Court on Monday indicted Palestinian driver Khaled Koutineh, 37, for the car-ramming and murder of 26-year-old Jewish man Shalom Yohai Sherki in Jerusalem on April 15. Shira Klein, 20, was seriously wounded in the alleged vehicular attack. The judges wrote in their indictment
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, part of the negotiating team on Iran’s nuclear program, said Monday the agreement sought by President Barack Obama’s administration will help “make the world safer.” She spoke to the Religious Action Committee of Reform Judaism. The State Department released the following transcription of
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