By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–This Middle East is new. It’s much different from a decade ago, and even more so when compared to years earlier. It may not look like the dream and slogans made popular by Shimon Peres and Barack Obama. They can quarrel who owns the label. Both have urged economic, social, and political […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) denounced the American Anthropological Association (AAA) for supporting a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The boycott resolution was adopted by a vote of 1,040 to 136 at the group’s annual meeting in Denver. “The AAA’s mission is ‘advancing knowledge and solving human problems,’”
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By Jacob Gardenswartz PHILADELPHIA –For most of my life, I found the idea of “inspiration” to be nice but quixotic; it was something that happened to other people, artist or musicians maybe, but not to me. To students my age who spoke about how they were inspired to do X or Y, I gave a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANew resources for teaching about the Holocaust unveiled NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2015 — The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) and USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education on Nov. 16 launched the IWitness-CIJE Jewish Day School initiative. Held at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, New York, the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on college campuses, perhaps none is more contradictory to what should be one of higher education’s core values than the suppression of free speech. With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down, booed, jeered, and barraged with vitriol, all at the
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABritish MP bombarded by anti-Semitic tweets, says Twitter slow to respond (JNS.org) British Jewish lawmaker Luciana Berger criticized Twitter’s slow response to the tweet campaign of abusive and threatening anti-Semitic messages leveled against her. Berger spoke at a British Parliament meeting about the threat of digital crime. She said the tweets targeting her “were incredibly
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InternationalJonathan Pollard released after 30 years in prison (JNS.org) After spending 30 years in a U.S. federal prison, American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was freed on parole Friday, one day ahead of schedule to allow him to observe Shabbat. “The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
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Middle East, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Is there another city in the world that draws as much controversy as Jerusalem? I-max film director Daniel Ferguson spent five years making Jerusalem and “nothing came easily.” The first challenge was to get their mixed crew of Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians to work through their distrust of one another
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Eric George Tauber, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauded a United Nations committee’s adoption of a resolution expressing serious concern about persistent human rights violations in Iran. The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee resolution was adopted by a vote of 76 to 35, with 68 abstentions. It is expected to be adopted by
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Islamic State supporters stab Jewish teacher in France (JNS.org) A Jewish teacher in the French southern city of Marseille was reportedly stabbed by Islamic State supporters on Wednesday, days after the jihadist terror group took credit for the killing of 129 people in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. According to reports, the suspects allegedly made
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InternationalPalestinian terrorist kills 2 Israelis during afternoon prayers in Tel Aviv (JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist killed two Israeli Jews in a stabbing attack during afternoon prayers (mincha) on Thursday in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported. The Shin Bet identified the attacker as a 36-year-old Palestinian from the village of Dura, near Hebron. The prayer service
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Just as a plane had left the gate at the Baltimore Airport for a flight to Chicago, one passenger saw a “Middle Eastern looking” woman looking at a video that appeared to be associated with the Islamic State. The alert passenger told an attendant, the plane returned to the gate,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The war against terror is not about semantics We are all struggling to create some mental headroom for this new wave of terror that has come to us now from the hallowed streets of Paris. The unwelcome knowledge of it, hurling through media and cyber space, affects our basic
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Middle East, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — Diplomats, elected officials, interfaith and intergroup partners, and American Jewish Committee (AJC) leaders gathered at AJC headquarters Wednesday evening, Nov. 18, to pay tribute to the victims of last Friday’s ISIS terror attacks in Paris, to express solidarity with France, to recommit to the shared values of democracy and freedom, and to
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