NEW YORK (Press Release) – EL AL Israel Airlines and JetBlue Airways have signed a code share agreement, providing travelers to Israel with expanded options and easier connections. Travelers living in 38 cities in the U.S.A. can now experience convenient connections to their EL AL nonstop flight to/from Israel. Luggage is automatically transferred between the JetBlue and […]
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USABEVERLY HILLS, California (Press Release)– Over $33 million was raised at the annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala Wednesday night, Jun 6, breaking all records at the event where more than 1,200 supporters from the United States and Israel gathered to support the brave men and women of the IDF. Those
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– Over 30,000 U.S. citizens living in Israel cast their vote in this week’s U.S. elections. iVoteIsrael, the leading organization facilitating the ability of Americans in Israel to vote in US elections, has successfully completed its 2014 campaign making voting from Israel more accessible to as many Americans in Israel as
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the 5th Anniversary of the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA). Next week, Henderson will head a delegation including Jewish, Muslim, Latino, African-American, Asian-American,
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International, USAReport: Obama sent letter on Islamic State to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-October expressing their shared interest in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq. The Wall Street Journal reported that the letter—which left Israel
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Middle East, USAWASHNGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, issued the following statement on President Obama’s request for emergency funding to address Ebola in Africa and public health preparedness in the United States. “The Ebola epidemic has taken a tragic toll in Liberia, Sierra
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, is urging governments worldwide to condemn unequivocally Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, and to press the Palestinian Authority to make every effort to deter, rather than incite, further assaults. “Hamas rockets and missiles may be quiet for the moment, but Palestinian
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Many readers of San Diego Jewish World live outside the United States so for them, principally, I thought I would provide some insight into how an American election works. Traditionally, today, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day, but for weeks preceding the election we
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–Since its founding in 2001, the radical campus group Students for Justice in Palestine has had as its mission to demonize Israel and promote a campaign to accuse the Jewish state of apartheid, racism, brutal occupation, and crimes against humanity, among other accusations. Its radical behavior has created a toxic
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — In a profoundly emotional and sincere “open letter” video to the late Brittany Maynard, another brave victim of glioblastoma–the devastating brain cancer–Maggie Karner, pleaded with Brittany not to end her life. Karner, whose own suffering is beyond words, begged Maynard to “squeeze every bit of
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past Friday night, we rejoiced when we heard the news about Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was finally released from having spent 214 days in a horrible Mexican prison. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this story, Tahmooressi was arrested on March 31 after
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Fielding more than 50 questions in half an hour from Supreme Court Justices, Alyza D. Lewin presented the case for enforcement of a 2002 law that gives American citizens born in Jerusalem the right to list their place of birth in U.S. passports as “Israel.” She argued alternatively (1) that “what goes
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Israel’s Peace Now movement, in strongly condemning the Israeli authorities’ decision to proceed with an East Jerusalem construction project that has triggered deep disapproval among the international community, including in Washington. A spokesperson for the Department of State in Washington said
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Avraham was a model of chesed (kindness) and rachamim (mercy). His tent had a door on each side so that he could invite geusts wherever they might come from. These beautiful traits have been hallmarks of the Jewish people, handed down from generation to generation ever since, as
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