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Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

March 29, 2018

RENO, Nevada (Press Release) – This year the State of Israel celebrates seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. To mark this occasion, the Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli women artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work that are grounded in the […]

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Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

March 29, 2018

By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

March 29, 2018

PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) – “My son was a hero, not just on the last day of his life but throughout his life.” This is how Linda Schulman spoke of her son, georaphy teacher Scott Beigel, just five and a half weeks after he was murdered protecting students at the Parkland High School in

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Political change most likely when incremental

March 28, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flurries swirling around this tiny country are uncertainties about its future. Some see our destiny dependent on reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. However, Palestinians have been saying no for more than 80 years, and are currently on the cusp of another civil war among who knows how

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

March 28, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World likes to present a broad spectrum of opinion, and for that reason we published a column today by Michael Hayutin in which he takes issue with protesters, including those students who have been organizing marches around the country to demand serious efforts be made

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

March 28, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) –Following a message from a professor on San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas’ (AMED) Facebook page calling the welcoming of pro-Israel students a ‘declaration of war,’ 60 organizations and many concerned citizens demanded an investigation. California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and SFSU President Leslie

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

OpEd: Virtue signaling

March 28, 2018

By Mike Hayutin SAN DIEGO — Activists will tell us that protest is the purest form of patriotism. Sounds pretty noble doesn’t it? Academics, primarily agenda driven leftists, encourage kids to march as a symbol of commitment. I suggest a more profound form of patriotism as a predicate before protest. How about gratitude? The former

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USA

As VP, he would have been on call 24/6?

March 28, 2018

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The first Orthodox Jewish member of the U.S, Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who ran for U.S. Vice President in 2000, has just published a book of philosophical essays related to counting the Omer. The book, With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day From Egypt to Sinai, (Maggid/OU Press),

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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, USA

Palestinian terror, American mass shootings

March 25, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A Palestinian used his car as a weapon and drove into a cluster of soldiers alongside an IDF base in the West Bank. He killed two and injured two others. A few days later, a Palestinian stabbed a security guard in Jerusalem’s Old City. Those were the third, fourth, and

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Australian rabbi grew up in secular Los Angeles home

March 22, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY,

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA

San Francisco State professor wants Zionists excluded from campus; AMCHA organizes protests

March 21, 2018

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Within hours of San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong’s public apology to Jewish students and affirmation that “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” an SFSU professor shot back with a hateful and discriminatory message targeting Jewish and Zionist students. The message was posted on an official site of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Turkish plans to conquer Israel, Europe

March 21, 2018

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Less than a month ago, in advance of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, the Turkish daily Yeni Şafak, which is considered one of the mouthpieces of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), published an

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA

Lieberman writes book about U.S., Jewish basic laws

March 19, 2018

With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Senator Joe Lieberman with Rabbi Ari D. Kahn, Maggid Books and OU Press, New Milford, CT, © 2018, ISBN 978-1-59264-501-5, p. 165, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – An ancient midrash explains that just after the Israelites left Egypt, Moses told

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, USA

U.S. should make NATO- like pledge to Israel

March 15, 2018

This is the second part of an article examining the volatile Iran-Israel relationship. To see Part I, please click here. By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The recent violation of Israel’s air space by an Iranian drone and Israel’s retaliation against Syrian and Iranian targets prompted many observers to suggest that the growing regional

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA

Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

Political change most likely when incremental

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

OpEd: Virtue signaling

As VP, he would have been on call 24/6?

Palestinian terror, American mass shootings

Australian rabbi grew up in secular Los Angeles home

San Francisco State professor wants Zionists excluded from campus; AMCHA organizes protests

Turkish plans to conquer Israel, Europe

Lieberman writes book about U.S., Jewish basic laws

U.S. should make NATO- like pledge to Israel

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