JERUSALEM (WJC) — Several Israeli ministers have accused Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, of spreading lies about Israel in his speech before the Knesset on Wednesday. Industry, Trade, Labor and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett and other members of Bennett’s Jewish Home faction walked out of the Israeli parliament chamber […]
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Hearing terms like “bug juice,” “arts and crafts time,” “bunks,” and “head counselor ” conjures up one mental picture: Summer Camp. However, imagine to these terms are added “social action”, “Democratic process” and “nonviolent resistance.” Filmmaker and stand up comedienne, Katie Halper, described her current offering for the San
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Travel and FoodThanks to Harry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, who forwarded this 1951 video of the Weavers singing a song “from the new land of Israel.” Pete Seeger is playing the banjo.
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—In response to the escalating number of seniors struggling to put food on the table, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger (MAZON) has launched a new initiative, in partnership with the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies (AJFCA), designed to help low-income, food-insecure seniors get the nutrition assistance they need. More
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By Robert Gluck/JNS.org On Feb. 14 each year, many Americans attend screenings of “Casablanca,” rent the movie, or view it in another way for Valentine’s Day. As time goes by, the Jewish influences on the Oscar-winning 1940s romantic film become more apparent. Jews involved in the production of “Casablanca” include Murray Burnett, the author of
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By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The new George Clooney film, The Monuments Men, tells the thrilling story of U.S. military personnel who during World War II risked their lives to rescue paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Picasso, and Chagall that the Nazis had stolen. But for Connecticut civil rights attorney Bill Bingham, the story is
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC deplores the abominable treatment of gays in Nigeria. The harassment, imprisonment and torture of gays, sanctioned by a Nigerian law enacted last month, was the focus of a major front-page story in the New York Times of Sunday, Feb. 9. “Nigeria’s unforgiving attitude towards gays violates the most basic human rights
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By Roberta R. Seid, Ph.D and Roz Rothstein LONG BEACH, California — The recent California State University (CSU) Trustees bimonthly meeting took an odd turn. Amid pressing discussions about budgets, improving student success, and other education issues, anti-Israel boycott activists at the January 29, 2014 meeting interjected the subject of Jews and Israel. They made up almost
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– “Jewish Poets – Jewish Voices” will continue in the Astor Judaica Library for the sixth year with three Tuesday evenings—beginning on Tuesday, February 18 at 7 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC), 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. The three featured authors
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — When words are not only unnecessary but may get in the way of delivering a beautiful, haunting, dark message, they are left out. When a story is so universal that we need not attach a face to the experiences, the camera omits the visage. Such is the
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Thursday, Feb. 6, called on the Greek party Syriza to withdraw a candidate for a regional governorship who made anti-Semitic statements about Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and the country’s new public broadcasting channel NERIT. “Syriza should withdraw the candidacy of Theodoros Karypidis for governor of
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Ever meet someone who just seems to know how to make lemonade out of lemons? When the glass is half empty, someone that can see the space as free to fill with a fine wine? This very optimism and desire to find humor, promise and possibility is in our
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Travel and FoodBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–A study carried out by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture found that the cost of fruits and vegetables in Israel are lower – sometimes even significantly lower — when compared to prices of fruits and vegetables in the United States and Western European countries including France, Germany and Britain. Eleven fruits and
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