By Howard Wayne SAN DIEGO — The 2018 elections will determine what legislative actions can be taken over the next term, and will set the stage for the 2020 presidential race. All seats in the House of Representatives and more than a third of the seats in the Senate are up for grabs. Background: An Unpopular […]
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Legislation would create fund for Palestinian-Israeli people-to-people partnerships Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) introduced the Palestinian Partnership Fund Act of 2018 (HR7060). This legislation would help create the conditions on the ground necessary for an eventual end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to facilitate and finance
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the one-state solution is simply a non-starter. I also maintain that successive Israeli governments, irrespective of their political leanings, perpetuated the occupation. They created
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USA
New device to monitor critical patients’ blood flow Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCH) have developed a new lifesaving monitoring technology called VitalMiner that predicts hemodynamic instability episodes in intensive care patients. Hemodynamic instability in blood pressure, particularly hypotension, is considered one
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An Egyptian-born Muslim who today calls himself a proud Zionist, an Ethiopian-Israeli who taught herself to sing as a way to relieve the stress of rocket attacks on her hometown of Sderot, and an 11-year-old girl whose answer to anti-Semitism was to become a strong supporter of Israel,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about what the Nazis did to him and his family. Despite prodding by his
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USA
Jewish TV commentator’s speech ‘postponed’ by Rutgers Lisa Daftari, a Jewish American of Iranian descent, had been invited by Rutgers University to give a speech on Tuesday, but now the appearance is “postponed”–and according to Daftari “cancelled”–by the university after Muslim students charged Daftari with Islamophobia. Daftari, who frequently appears as a commentator on Fox
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USADanes, Israelis, WJC celebrate 75th anniversary of Danish rescue of the Jews World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder took part Thursday in Denmark’s official ceremony commemorating 75 years since Danish Jewry were rescued from the Germans and their accessories and sent to safety in Sweden. In his address, Ambassador Lauder thanked Denmark for its
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USATrump on the Stump Translations By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−For those who don’t understand Trump Speak, here is what he says and what his base hears. * “It’s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of.” This means boys can
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Jewish Federation of San Diego County responds to outbreaks of anti-Semitism Michael Jeser, chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, issued the following statement on Thursday: The past several days have been trying ones for Jewish communities around our state, our country, and the world. This week swastikas were discovered on
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International, Middle East, USABy Daniel Sokatch SAN FRANCISCO — I want to talk for a moment about Lara Alqasem. She’s the 22-year-old American who has been stuck at Ben Gurion Airport for nine days now. She arrived in Israel with a visa provided by the Israeli consulate in Miami. The Israeli government, however, refused to honor that visa
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Middle East, USA
$2 Million donation to National WWII Museum to further Holocaust education San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $2 million to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans for the development of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program, which will ensure public remembrance of the atrocities that led to the genocide of more than six million
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Lawfare Project fights pro-Israel battles in Spain, Germany The Lawfare Project is now celebrating a string of major victories in Spain. A court in Barcelona last week voided a BDS measure passed by the city’s council of arts, a court in Andalusia last month suspended a large city’s boycott of companies that engage in free
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, USA
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Press Release) — A new world premiere special exhibition has launched at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Israel: Then & Now is a first of its kind special exhibition that invites visitors to see the landmarks, learn the history, explore the culture, and meet the people of Israel — without leaving Cleveland.
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Middle East, USA