USA

Ron Dermer on Israeli Independence Day: ‘From Powerlessness to Power’

By Ron Dermer (JNS) Israel was not established because of the Holocaust. In contrast, it is because of the modern State of Israel that there has not been another mass Jewish genocide, according to former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Speaking on this week’s “Diplomatically Incorrect” podcast with JINSA’s David Makovsky, Dermer […]

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Middle East, Opinion, USA

Jewish Groups React Strongly Against SCOTUS Leak to Overturn ‘Roe vs. Wade’

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) The unprecedented leak of an initial draft majority opinion by the Supreme Court in the challenge of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy—has caused a firestorm of opinions on both sides of the abortion debate, no less so among Jewish organizations that for

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USA

Blinken Congratulates Israel on 74th Independence Day

(JNS) As Israel celebrates 74 years since its independence, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations in a statement on Wednesday. Blinken said the relationship between the United States and Israel is unshakeable, based on shared democratic ideals. “The United States remains steadfast in its commitment to Israel’s security and deeply values our

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Middle East, USA

Leading Research Collaboration in Israel Unveils New Name

(JNS) A historic partnership between the University of Arizona, Jewish National Fund-USA and farmers in the Arava Valley, has been renamed as the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, in honor of a $1 million commitment made to the Institute by philanthropists Beth and Mike Kasser. “If you have enough water, then

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Who Actually Wrote the Harvard Crimson’s Pro-BDS Editorial?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

This Yom Ha’Atzmaut, I’m Talking to My First-Grader About Palestinians

By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he

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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Assassinated Gay Jewish Political Leader Harvey Milk Is Honored by the U.S. Navy

The “christening” ceremony featured a principal ceremonial address by Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, as well as remarks by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro; Vice Admiral Jeffrey Hughes, deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development; and Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer, commander of the Military Sealift Command. Sponsors of the ship were U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with Milk, and Paula Neira, clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health. Neira shattered a bottle of sparkling wine across the ship’s bow in a time-honored Navy tradition. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Graduation Day at the Radiation Treatment Center

Today, April 29, 2022, was a bellringing day for me at the Jacobs Medical Center at UCSD Health Sciences.  I completed a 33-day course of radiation in the hope of arresting a meningioma that was growing on top of my brain.  On July 1, I will have an MRI to learn how well the treatment worked. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish World War II Heroes Finally Rest Under the Star of David

By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — Reminiscing about a 2015 visit to the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, in Margraten, I wrote, “Walking among the more than 8,000 white marble crosses and Star of David headstones laid out in long, silent curves across the pristine verdant lawn, we could not be

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA

Seacrest Village President/CEO Elected to Lead Board of Directors of the Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS)

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Pam Ferris, President and CEO of the San Diego Hebrew Homes (d.b.a Seacrest Village Retirement Communities) has been named by Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS) as their new Board Chair. Her installation took place at the 2022 AJAS Annual Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., on April 5. Ferris, a

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San Diego County, USA

Freedom to Live

By Hillel Newman (Jewish Journal via JNS) Last Thursday, April 21, 2022, the eve of the second festival of Passover, the eve of “Good Friday” for Christians and during the Ramadan period for Muslims, a few demonstrators gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles. Watching, I asked myself how ignorant, misled or

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Middle East, Opinion, USA

Jewish National Fund-USA Philanthropic Giant, Inventor of the Implantable Defibrillator Remembered

(JNS) Jewish National Fund-USA mourns the passing of Dr. Morton “Mort” Mower, a legendary member of the organization’s King Solomon Society and World Chairman’s Council, who was also the inventor of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for congestive heart failure. “Dr. Mower loved Israel with a passion beyond words,” said Jewish

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA