USA

Venezuela threatens its Jews over Gaza War

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government to end immediately their incendiary statements against Israel, which have led to attacks on the Jewish community. The climate of fear experienced by Venezuela’s Jewish community over the past decade has been heightened still further since […]

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International, Middle East, USA

The moral corruption of the political left

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge some three weeks ago, the streets of American and European cities have been crammed with activists

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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USA

Senate approves extra funding for Iron Dome

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the  Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, on Friday, August 1, lauded the Senate leaders and the Administration for the passage of the supplemental funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system which has saved countless

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Middle East, USA

Na’amat helps maintain day care in Israel

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—NA’AMAT has sent more than $100,000 to its sister organization in Israel to support caregivers in its 233 Day Care Centers serving 18,000 children there, Elizabeth Raider, National President, NA’AMAT USA, announced Friday, August 1. “Our NA’AMAT day care centers are operational only if they have suitable ‘safe rooms’, and the required

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Middle East, USA

Naivete causes strains in U.S. – Israel relations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Political analysis is best with moderation. Objectivity is not in the cards, insofar as information is partial and bound to be partisan. It helps to recognize differences in perspective. Extreme partisanship might win applause in some circles, but invites ridicule in others. Also important is to recognize sources of power,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

West abdicates to terror in M.E. conflict

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–Samuel Huntington correctly defined the bloody conflicts of our time as a “clash of civilizations.” But all “clashes” are not equal: there are the intra-Arab and intra-Muslim clashes and there are clashes where one side is a Western Democracy. What distinguishes between them is that the former’s actions and exactions, however cruel

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International, Middle East, USA

Campus thugs threaten Jewish students

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Boxer, Davis introduce college sexual assault bill

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –  U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced the Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act (S.O.S. Campus Act), legislation that would require colleges and universities to establish an independent, on-campus advocate to support survivors of sexual assault. “Survivors of sexual assault deserve an advocate who

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USA

House proposes reward for capture of Fraenkel killers

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), the Ranking Member of the terrorism subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the unanimous passage of H.R. 5041, the Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice Act of 2014 in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, July 30. Sherman is the chief democratic cosponsor of this

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Middle East, USA

Jewish presence diminishes in Butte, Montana

-Thirteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison BUTTE, Montana – In this old west city where the very first mayor was Jewish, Montana’s oldest synagogue may be on the verge of dying. Meanwhile, at the city’s annual Montana Folk Festival, the klezmer music of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews is periodically reincarnated. Thus summer visitors

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USA