By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — “Candidate X is soft on crime!” We’ve all read that during an election cycle. But what they don’t say is who paid for this glossy paper junk mail? Why would experienced incumbent Republican lawmakers suddenly be the targets of vicious attack ads in normally quiet, local primaries? This […]
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Martin Barillas NEW YORK — Human rights advocates are awaiting a response from New York University President Andrew Hamilton after writing letters urging him to take firm action regarding what the advocates regard as a discriminatory joint statement issued in April by 53 NYU campus student groups. On Monday, the Louis D. Brandeis Center
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASanctions against Burmese military welcomed American Jewish World Service welcomed the U.S. Government’s announcement Friday that it is imposing sanctions and visa restrictions on Burmese military leaders and divisions responsible for horrific violence against the Rohingya people in Burma,” said Robert Bank, President and CEO of AJWS. “Sanctioning the Burmese military for the atrocities against the Rohingya people
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International, Jewish History, USAFormer FBI special agent to head security for San Diego Jewish Academy San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA), an independent Jewish day school located in the Carmel Valley community of San Diego, has announced the hiring of Gabriel Ramirez as Director of Security and Safety. “Following a very competitive interview process, we have hired Gabe Ramirez
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Ben Gurion University has a new president (5 items) Professor Daniel (Danny) Chamovitz, dean of the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University (TAU), was today elected as the seventh president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The University’s executive committee, headed by Asher Heled, confirmed the recommendation of the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – U.S. Presidents, past and present, are part of America’s national conversation. Yes, we talk about politics and governmental affairs, but that is not all. The names of our Presidents are woven into our conversations in many other ways. We name streets, buildings, educational institutions, cities, and states for
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Herzog, in first North American trip as Jewish Agency chairman, stresses need for unity On his first trip abroad since assuming office last week, Isaac Herzog, The Jewish Agency for Israel’s new Chairman of the Executive, visited Jewish Federations in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Herzog, who assumed office on August 1, is due to
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The nearly three months of demonstrations by Palestinians along the Israel-Gaza border under the banner of the “March of Return,” turned violent and has remained as such as of this writing. This provides another manifestation of how wrong and astray the Palestinians have been led, believing that there is
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) –In its annual report on anti-Semitic activity on U.S. campuses, released today, AMCHA Initiative found that Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents were considerably more likely to contribute to a hostile environment for Jewish students than incidents involving classic anti-Semitism. And a close analysis of incidents from 2015 to the first half of 2018 revealed that
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Eric Rozenman and Shoshana Bryen The Jewish Policy Center WASHINGTON, D.C. — Psychiatrists tell their patients they have to “name their fears.” A fear that cannot be named cannot be understood or faced. An unnamed threat cannot be defeated. This is particularly true of what is called the threat of “terrorism.” A recent Washington
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International, Middle East, USANorth American rabbis protest Israel’s law forbidding LGBTQ surrogacy Nearly 600 rabbis representing Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish communities from across the United States and Canada signed an open letter that calls on ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel to retract recent homophobic comments and asks the governing coalition of the Knesset to immediately reverse recent
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — There is a lonely purple marker that stands, riddled with bullet holes, near Money, Mississippi. The placard marks the spot where 14-year old Emmett Till, black and doomed, was brutishly dragged, hung, shot, mutilated and then thrown into the nearby Tallahatchie River by rabid white vigilantes. For years
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USAWorld Jewish Congress challenges British Labour party on Anti-Semitism “The World Jewish Congress strongly supports the unified stance of British Jewry in urging the Labour Party, and indeed the government itself, to adopt the working definition of anti-Semitism agreed upon by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance,” said WJC President Ronald S. Lauder. “A solution to
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – We hear often about declining rates of affiliation in the Jewish community, but retailers apparently are not overly concerned. Affiliated or not, many Jews still identify with Jewish traditions, customs, and history, and therein lies some marketing opportunities. For example, Daniela and Gabriela Apeloig have created a new
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA