JERUSALEM (TNA)- Following a resolution unanimously adopted at the 169th session of the CERN Council, Israel was admitted on Wednesday, Jan. 15 as a full member of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at a special ceremony in Geneva, at the end of which the Israeli flag was added to the line of flags representing […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a remarkable summary of the Holocaust years, as seen through the compassionate eyes of survivor Lou Dunst. In My Bargain With God, Kamin follows Dunst’s journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee, the latter concentration camp being where Dunst came within
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC)–The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has dramatically improved its missile capabilities and can now pinpoint targets anywhere in Israel, a senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard’s aerospace division, said Israelis would see Hezbollah’s new might should a war break out.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — American culture, having turned over from social justice to narcissism, has now become a fertile field for the self-glorification that attends many birthdays. Like the cavalcade of grades of iPhones, this one is “better” than that one; here is a “milestone” event and there is “just another one.” The
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — Remember when our nation’s leaders could laugh together? Here are President Ronald Reagan, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker attending a performance by comedy juggler Michael Davis at Ford’s Theater. How we out in the hinterlands would love to see such friendships among our leaders again! Thanks to
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The President of EL AL Israel Airlines recently met with Israeli Mayors whose cities’ names adorn the airline’s fleet. At the meeting, EL AL President Elyezer Shkedy presented each mayor with a model of the plane that bears the name of their city. As the national airline of Israel, every plane is
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COLOGNE, Germany (Press Release) — Authorities have charged an 88-year-old former member of an SS division with 25 counts of murder over allegations that he took part in the largest civilian massacre in Nazi-occupied France. Cologne state court spokesman Achim Hengstenberg said suspect Werner C., whose last name wasn’t given in accordance with German privacy
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International, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer NETANYA, Israel — Michal and I recently attended a fascinating lecture by Genie Milgrom, an American citizen of Cuban heritage. Although raised as a Roman Catholic, Milgrom had an affinity towards Jews and the Jewish religion from an early age. She described her conviction for Judaism as something that you don’t know
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — About 3.54 million tourists traveled to Israel in 2013, half a percent more than the previous record year of 2012 according to a report by the Israel Tourism Ministry. Jerusalem was the most popular city to visit , with 75% of all incoming tourist traffic visiting the capital. Tel Aviv
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PHILADELPHIA (Press Release) — The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced on Thursday, Jan. 9, the acquisition of one of the nation’s leading private collections of contemporary art, formed by Keith L. and Katherine Stein Sachs. Ranging in date from the 1950s to the present, the promised gift of 97 works from the Sachs Collection represents
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC condemned a Bangladeshi court decision to sentence Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz, to seven years in prison for attempting to visit Israel more than a decade ago and for “harming the country’s interests” through his articles. The paper is the largest tabloid English-language weekly in
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned actress Emma Thompson and three dozen other British actors, for seeking the boycotting of Israel’s celebrated Habima Theater troupe, which is to perform later this year in a six-week theatrical festival taking place at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Thompson and her colleagues
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JERUSALEM– Israel’s Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) movement on Wednesday, Jan. 8, sent a letter to the Israeli government, demanding that it “enforce the law and remove Esh Kodesh, a West Bank settlement that was established in violation of Israeli law, whose residents have repeatedly attacked neighboring Palestinians,” according to a press release from the organization.
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan. 8, urged the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to hold the El Palestino Club soccer team accountable for violating FIFA regulations and its Code of Ethics during a soccer game on January 4, when its players replaced their standard uniform with jerseys imprinted
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