LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWith Us has announced its support for Senate confirmation of Kenneth Marcus, an outstanding defender of civil rights for Jews and many other communities, who was recently nominated for assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education. “Now he is under attack by anti-Israel extremists seeking to […]
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Middle East, USAAdditional commentary may be found below from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. NEW YORK (Press Release) – More than 1,100 religious leaders across the United States have joined with the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in calling for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to appoint a new State Department Special Envoy to
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International, USA
WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release)– At the Israel Embassy event Monday night in Washington D.C. marking Israel’s 70th Independence Day, American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) donors, Howard and Lottie Marcus, were posthumously honored among the top 10 of 70 Americans who have made a uniquely valuable contribution to Israel and its alliance
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy David A. Harris NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel at this difficult time on the Gaza border. There should be total clarity. The latest round of violence was triggered by Hamas, a terrorist organization as designated by both the United States and European Union, whose charter and rhetoric are
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) –On Thursday night, May 3rd, L’ag Ba’Omer on the Jewish Calendar, more than 700 young leaders of the Jewish community gathered together at Sony Hall in the Paramount Hotel in New York City for a gala event in support of Israel’s national volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization, United Hatzalah.
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Middle East, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Students at Columbia University, New York University, Syracuse University and University of California Irvine are deploying a repeated and deliberate strategy to create a hostile climate for Jewish and Zionist students and, in turn, suppress any and all pro-Israel expression on campus. Today, more than 60 education and civil rights organizations
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Erich Fromm wondered: How can we account for humankind’s capacity for cruelty and violence? Fromm, like the ethologist Konrad Lorenz, believed that violence is something we share with the animal world—especially when it comes to directing our anger against members of our own species. On the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert issued the following statement on Monday, May 14. The United States is deeply concerned by the harassment and detention of Baha’is by the Houthis in Sana’a, Yemen. The Houthis have targeted the Baha’i community in inflammatory speech along with a wave of detentions,
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Today (May 14) has already been an historic day and it’s barely 9am here in California. Today truth trumped lies and virtue vanquished evil. Today the great Name of G-d was sanctified in His Chosen Land, in His Holy City, by His Chosen People. No, unfortunately, the Holy
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — This is an unprecedented moment for women – and women’s health. We are part of a sea change spurred by #MeToo, a seismic shift in what Americans will — and will no longer — tolerate. The #MeToo movement has brought to light the proliferation of sexual harassment and violence.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — On Monday, May 14, as the United States formally relocated its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a plethora of commentary from government officials, supporters, and opponents. Following are comments which reached the editor’s desk of San Diego Jewish World: THE WHITE HOUSE — President Trump kept his promise
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination. A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Aaron Burr is glacial; Alexander Hamilton is overwrought; King George has skinny legs and a hilarious voice; Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton’s deceived wife) is heartbroken and enraged. The unprecedented and prize-winning musical, Hamilton has been touring far and wide—I finally had the chance to see and hear it here
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Steve Kramer, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA