Jewish Democrats ask White House to tone down criticism of Netanyahu (JNS.org) In a meeting with deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, a dozen Jewish Democrats serving in the House of Representatives asked the White House to tone down its criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his statements on the peace process. The […]
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) –The Prime Minister’s Office’s Israel-China task force, led by the National Economic Council and the Israel Export Institute, will be launched at the China-Israel Cooperation Conference at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv. For the first time, there will be a dialogue on China combining the business sector, academia and government in
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the outline of a nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers as even “worse” than he had feared. “While [world powers] convene to sign this deal, Iran’s proxies in Yemen are seizing large swaths of land with an aim to overtake Bab al-Mandab strait so that they
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza. The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today,
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy–it may not be possible–to identify the real Barack Obama. We can say the same about other–perhaps all–politicians who reach the top of a steep climb. Yet the Obama puzzle is especially daunting, given his position at the head of the most powerful country of them all. His
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
{Eulogy delivered March 29, 2015 at the Home of Peace Cemetery, San Diego} By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–At the Seder table we read a special book which has an unusual name. The name is derived from the answer to the question posed in the Bible where we are told that the day would come
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release)– Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a telephone discussion with Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, that she thinks “we need to all work together to return the special US-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared concerns and
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–It goes without saying that countless families in Israel are unable to afford the Passover Seder meal but two charitable organizations, Leket Israel and Colel Chabad are working to change that reality. Colel Chabad, the oldest continuously running social services organization in Israel, founded in 1788, has been charged by the
NGOs to distribute food for Pesach in Israel Read More »
Jewish Religion, Middle East
Here is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Leslea Newman and illustrated by Susan Gal; Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014, with reinforced binding, ISBN 978-141-971-1855; $18.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This richly illustrated book, intended to familiarize young Jewish children with the annual cycle of holidays, tells in verse
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Arieh Deri is something of a political genius. Born in Morocco in 1959 he came at an early age to Israel with his family. To save him from the squalor in which they were then forced to live, his parents sent him to a yeshiva where he shone. He soon joined
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Middle East
By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization known as SHATIL, have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political change, reform, and activism in the Middle East. The government program, Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), has
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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — With nearly 50 years of history behind Israel’s parliament building, the Classical stone structure has seen countless historical changes and events. But a new kind of revolution is making its way through the halls of the Israeli parliament with the “Green Knesset Project,” a unique environmentally friendly initiative spearheaded
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
The Rabbi’s Daughter, A Memoir by Reva Mann, (Dial Press, 2008) By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Writing an unhappy review is never an easy or pleasant task. Reva Mann makes the point (from the title onward) that she is the daughter and granddaughter of well known and respected rabbis. Her constant reiteration of how
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