By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org TEL AVIV — “This is how I want to be—without fear. Independent. I want to be like a bird. I want to spread my wings.” So reads part of the description beneath one of the 30 paintings on display until the end of May at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv. The
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most important feminists fighting for women’s rights in the Islamic world is a woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This remarkable woman was born in Somalia where she was raised as a Muslim. She spent her youth and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylviania (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) congratulates the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) chapter for rejecting the national American Studies Association boycott against Israeli academics passed by the organization’s membership in December. EASA is one of the ASA’s 13 regional chapters. The Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) has joined its
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Editor’s Note: Zev Hurwitz, editor of The UCSD Guardian, recently responded to an article by AMCHA Initiative’s Tammi Rossman-Benjamin that was headlined “Insider’s guide to campus bias faced by Jews” in the March 31 online edition of San Diego Jewish World. Here is his response which was printed April 10 in “New Voices,” a national publication for Jewish
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HAIFA, Israel — Students at Technion had an engineering challenge for Passover. They were to build a device that could cross “The Red Sea”–actually a small pool of water–and then fill a glass with wine, in order to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Above is a video of how they approached the challenge. __________________________________________________________________ Click here
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Everyone knows the feeling. The dreaded “low battery” message sends you on a frantic search for a charge, but you finally lose the last drop of energy, and you’re stranded, out of touch. New technology out of Tel Aviv University may just save smartphone users in the near future. The Tel
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HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — What is social justice? 30 students and researchers from the University of Haifa and the University of Maryland tried to answer this very question in a bi-national seminar, held in the University of Haifa. Their conclusion: the term is so subjective that in some cases it might split the very
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Wednesday, April 9, welcomed a decision by Brandeis University to withdraw its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree at commencement ceremonies on May 18 and attributed the “victory over hate” to a unified community response. CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — A 3,300 year old coffin was exposed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) containing the personal belongings of a wealthy Canaanite, possibly an official of the Egyptian Army. Among the items discovered is a gold signet ring bearing the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I. The rare artifacts
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ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — The Leichtag Foundation has announced that Daron “Farmer D” Joffe will assume the position of Ranch Development Director effective April 29, 2014. A nationally recognized organic/biodynamic farmer, educator, speaker, and eco-entrepreneur, Joffe has consulted with the Foundation for the last 18 months on the development of the former Paul Ecke Ranch in
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) is spearheading a drive in the House of Representatives to boost federal funding for medical research. In a bipartisan letter to House appropriators, 190 Representatives signed the Davis letter urging $32 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health. “San Diego is the cornerstone of medical
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By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org The controversy over the Harvard University students who recently posed, smiling, at Yasser Arafat’s grave sent a shot of pain through every one of us who has lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks that Arafat and his allies have waged over the years. But it must have been
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ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — There are action heroes, superheroes, and everyday heroes. Then there are those, like Eli Beer, founder and head of United Hatzalah of Israel, who seem to embody a little of all three. Beer, 40, traveled from Israel at the end of March to visit Bergen County as part of an ongoing
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By Hen Mazzig/JNS.org On March 31, I attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. BtS is known
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