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AMCHA Initiative database tracks anti- Semitic incidents

January 19, 2016

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California– As a resource to current and prospective students, parents, university administrators, elected officials, researchers, and donors, AMCHA Initiative has unveiled a database that chronicles anti-Semitic incidents that occurred over the past academic year by state and university. The incidents are organized into three categories: Targeting Jewish Students and Staff, Anti-Semitic Expression and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]

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Jewish History, USA

Extremist settlers strain U.S. – Israel relations

January 19, 2016

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Netanyahu government is getting under the skin of the United States Administration. US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro echoed it earlier this week when he spoke in Tel Aviv at a conference organized by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. We can safely assume that what he said had been

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Middle East, USA

Anachnu: Ruth Messenger

January 17, 2016

Editor’s note: Anachnu, which means “we” in Hebrew, is a new column by San Diego Jewish World editor and publisher Donald H. Harrison, in which he will tell about the Jews he meets–those who are famous, and those who are not. All of them have interesting and worthwhile stories. By Donald H. Harrison The farther away the event, the

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Donald H. Harrison, International, USA

AJC speaks out on church vandalism, Iran deal

January 17, 2016

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is outraged by the overnight attack, Jan. 16-17, on the Church of the Dormition in Jerusalem. “Christians to Hell” and other hateful, threatening graffiti were scrawled in Hebrew at the Benedictine Monastery. “Once again, we are compelled to condemn vandalism of Christian holy sites

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International, Middle East, USA

MLK was a man, not a postage stamp

January 17, 2016

By Rabbi Ben Kamin BERLIN, Germany—Not lost upon me is the irony of commemorating Martin Luther King Day while visiting here in the one-time capital of the Third Reich. My daughter Sari is posted here for a work assignment; I have come over during a sojourn in Israel. Dr. King would be pleased with this

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International, USA

Even if stock market is crazy, you don’t have to be

January 16, 2016

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — The stock market is going crazy. When it bumps up, we’re all happy. When it drops, especially more than one day in a row, we panic. We can’t control the market; all we can do is react – or not. Rather than act rashly, let’s take a look of

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Sheryl Rowling, USA

Open Hillel seeks to install enemies in the tent

January 16, 2016

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Winston Churchill could have been observing the sorry state of academic free speech today when he observed that “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USA

The remaking of Cons. Judaism

January 14, 2016

By Eitan Arom/JNS.org NEW YORK — Conservative Judaism has always had something akin to middle-child syndrome: squeezed on both sides by the Orthodox and Reform movements. But lately, its identity crisis has become acute. This week, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)—an umbrella body that represents Conservative congregations across North America—is set to receive

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Jewish Religion, USA

AJC meets with leaders in Lithuania, Estonia

January 13, 2016

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK– An AJC leadership delegation has concluded visits to Lithuania and Estonia. The seven-member group, led by AJC Chief Executive Officer David Harris and including lay and staff leaders, had meetings with Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius. The delegation also met with U.S.

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International, USA

European & U.S. Jewish news: January 13, 2016

January 13, 2016

Marseille Jewish leader: avoid wearing kippah due to terror threats (JNS.org) The head of the Jewish community in the southern French city of Marseille has urged local Jews to avoid wearing a kippah in public, a day after an attack on a Jewish teacher by an Islamic State-inspired Muslim. “Not wearing the kippah can save

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International, USA

President Obama’s final State of the Union address

January 12, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)–Following is the text of President Obama’s final State of the Union message as released by the White House. It was delivered on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, before a Joint Session of Congress: By President Barack Obama Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year

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USA

Can radical Islam be defeated or moderated?

January 12, 2016

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In one of the episodes of the TV drama, Homeland, a CIA operative reports to a meeting of senior officers about his experience in Syria. The discussion proceeds something like this. There are too many militias to count, and more than a few considered important. The US has no strategy guiding

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

U.S. fails to understand Iran – Saudi rivalry

January 11, 2016

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Obama administration appears surprised by the sudden eruption of Saudi-Iranian hostility after the Saudi government executed Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the Iranians responded by organizing/sponsoring/approving an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Both sides have walked the rhetoric back just a bit in the last day

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

AJC condemns cemetery vandalism; hails AHA vote

January 10, 2016

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Sunday, Jan. 10, condemned the desecration of the Catholic cemetery in Beit Jamal (near Beit Shemesh), Israel. In another action, the AJC welcomed the rejection by the American Historical Association of an anti-Israel resolution. Concerning the desecration of the cemetery, in which dozens of

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Middle East, USA

AMCHA Initiative database tracks anti- Semitic incidents

Extremist settlers strain U.S. – Israel relations

Anachnu: Ruth Messenger

AJC speaks out on church vandalism, Iran deal

MLK was a man, not a postage stamp

Even if stock market is crazy, you don’t have to be

Open Hillel seeks to install enemies in the tent

The remaking of Cons. Judaism

AJC meets with leaders in Lithuania, Estonia

European & U.S. Jewish news: January 13, 2016

President Obama’s final State of the Union address

Can radical Islam be defeated or moderated?

U.S. fails to understand Iran – Saudi rivalry

AJC condemns cemetery vandalism; hails AHA vote

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