Israelis grow new skin for toddler burn victim from P.A.

RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) —  After barely escaping a house fire that burned 50% of her small body, 18-month-old Shams Ismail was rushed from the Palestinian town of Rantis to Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer in Israel,where she received life-saving treatment in the hospital’s renowned National Burn Unit. With the care and innovative treatment […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Sloppy media become Hamas mouth pieces

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Accuracy is essential when reporting claims of Palestinian casualties during Palestinian-induced wars.  But accuracy is always the missing ingredient in the mainstream media when covering Palestinian wars against Israel. Instead they offer bland reporting damaging to Israel with such recent examples as a story about 20 Palestinian killed in

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Barry Shaw, Middle East

Yom HaZikaron: The pain and privilege of memory

Editor’s Note: Following are remarks delivered at the Yom HaZikaron observance Tuesday evening, May 7, at the Lawrence Family JCC. By Yiftach Levy LA JOLLA, California — We typically think of memory as a purely mental exercise – we remember in our heads and our imaginations – but remembering is a fully multisensory experience. We

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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County

Lori Kaye, Pittsburgh victims mourned in Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Tributes to the 12 Jews killed in the synagogue shootings of October 2018 in Pittsburgh and April 2019 in Poway took center stage Wednesday during The Jewish Agency for Israel’s memorial service for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s annual day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. The special guests

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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Review: ‘A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir’

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel’s A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir reads like an engrossing novel. It describes the transition of the Angel family from an immigrant Sephardic community into an Americanized group over several generations. In the process, it “reminisces” about the immigrant generation,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

State Senate adjourned in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye

She was murdered during gunman’s attack at Poway of Chabad East County Magazine SACRAMENTO, California — In the wake of the shooting in Poway, Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) adjourned the Senate floor session on April 28th in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye, a Chabad of Poway synagogue congregant who died during the synagogue shooting on

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA

SWU assails college’s bias against pro-Israel group

Editor’s Note: Following is a letter written by Roz Rothstein, StandWithUs co-founder and CEO and Yael Lerman, Director StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department to the top administrators of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.. By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — We write on behalf of StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-profit, Israel education organization. We are alarmed and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA