TEL AVIV (Press Release) – Despite tensions surrounding the war in Gaza, 338 new Olim (immigrants) from the United States and Canada arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning, August 12, on an Aliyah charter flight to Israel. The special Nefesh B’Nefesh flight was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and […]
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Middle East, USA
DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A generous gift from Colorado resident Francine Lavin Weaver has funded the first kosher retreat center in the Rocky Mountains, as part of Camp Ramah in the Rockies. Ramah announced the opening of the new Beit Kesher Retreat Center, which was dedicated on Sunday, August 3, with a festive opening
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As part of $300 million in grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) announced that $1.02 million would go to fight homelessness among veterans in San Diego. Vietnam Veterans of San Diego will be the recipient of the VA grant. “I have seen first
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San Diego County, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release) – San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis joined Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego) on Monday, Aug. 11, to urge passage of a bill to treat human trafficking crimes committed by gang members with the same severity as 33 other gang offenses and another measure
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San Diego County, USANEW YORK (WJC) –Former American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is identifying anti-Semitism as an important motivation for the international criticism of Israel’s incursion in Gaza, according to a new interview. “It is striking … that you have more than 170,000 people dead in Syria. … You have Russia massing battalions—Russia, that actually annexed
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Hamas resumed rocketing Israel on Friday, August 8, one surety was that Israel’s office of “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)” [COGAT] would continue operating as it has through gruesome acts of terror against Jews, “intifadas,” rocket attacks and kidnappings through tunnels.
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
s -Nineteenth in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison THE DALLES, Oregon — Today, there are few Jews living in this city, but it is not surprising that at one point in its history, Jewish merchants found it a very attractive place to do business. “The Dalles” was given its name by French Canadian
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One should applaud, perhaps with one hand, the wisdom shown by Barack Obama in his efforts to withdraw the United States from active involvement in the Middle East. At the same time, we should note that he is at least partly responsible for the present chaos. That Nobel Peace Prize
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABOCA RATON, Florida (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is shocked and horrified by the murder of a rabbi on his way to synagogue Saturday morning, Aug. 9, in North Miami Beach. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Rabbi Joseph Raksin’s family and the surrounding community. ADL has been in close contact with the
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USA
-Eighteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison SPOKANE, Washington – During an all-too-short visit with grandson Shor to this eastern Washington city, I sensed that the civic leadership of Spokane values the city’s diversity and attempts to promote inter-group harmony. From a vantage point for viewing Spokane Falls, for example, Shor and I noticed
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Larry Wilske, California Congressional candidate and retired Command Master Chief of SEAL Team Seven, issued a statement on Friday, August 8, calling for solidarity in support of Israel. Wilske is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams. He served with distinction on SEAL Teams SDV-1, Three and Seven and oversaw
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Middle East, USA
-Seventeenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison MOIESE, Montana — In 1908, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, a formidable conservationist, laid aside the National Bison Range to help bring the American bison (often mislabeled as a ‘buffalo’) back from the precipice of extinction. Today, to paraphrase the lyrics of “Home on the Range,” the bison
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, reported that Israel spied on Secretary of State John Kerry’s phone calls while Kerry was in Paris with representatives of Qatar and Turkey, trying to arrange a ceasefire for Gaza. It appears straightforward. Kerry, says Der Spiegel, was using “open,” non-encrypted
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Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USANEW YORK (Press Release)… Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said, “We view with growing alarm the condition of Alan Gross, who has been held for over four years in a Cuban prison. His health has been deteriorating and he has reportedly lost vision in his
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International, USA