By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Here’s the choice we all have. We can either be a part of the 80% of Americans who don’t eat properly, sleep enough, make time for healthy relaxation, don’t spend quality and quantity time with friends and loved ones, and simply live in the illusion of health. This group […]
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Michael Mantell, Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York on Tuesday evening, March 10, that Israel must be “prepared” for new conflicts along its northern border with Syria, whose internal violence seems like
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TEL AVIV (WJC) — The exhibition ‘Tree of life – The Jews of Hungary, 1981-2004’ at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv displays a selection of 40 photographs taken by Andres Lacko. It reflect the changes in the lives of Hungarian Jews from the 1980s to the early 2000s. The exhibition blends past and present. Lacko’s
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Arab party’s official says Islamic State learned terror from Zionism (JNS.org) Raja Zaatra, a public relations official for the Joint Arab List political party in Israel, said the Islamic State terror group learned its actions from Zionism and refused to define Hamas as a terrorist organization. During a panel discussion about Israel’s upcoming March
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There was a modicum of tension before Israel’s Consul -General based in Los Angeles, David Siegel, spoke in the upstairs auditorium of the new Melvin Garb Hillel Center alongside the San Diego State University campus. After all, there were security precautions taken and Resa Levitt Kohn, head
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The partisan divide in Washington D.C. over Iran’s nuclear aspirations has been growing wider, and more bitter, as President Barack Obama, a Democrat, argues with the Republican-controlled Congress over whether any agreement between Iran and the Permanent Five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany—the so
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — Our support for liberal democracy, freedom of expression, and human and civil rights have made us a target for the far right in Israel. In this election season — when so many incumbents are running from their records — tarring NIF can serve as a convenient distraction. Several hardline
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized President Barack Obama for appointing veteran anti-Israel diplomat, Robert Malley, as White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region. Malley is an Israel-basher, an advocate of U.S. recognition of major, unreconstructed terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah, and a proponent
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Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Maestro Murry Sidlin is the creator of The Defiant Requiem, a concert-drama depicting the musical life of Terezin and integrating the entire Requiem by Guiseppi Verdi within its narration. The innovative American conductor will be on hand to introduce the documentary film, The Defiant Requiem at its screening this
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the senior Democratic Senator on the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), has been named as the Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the 57-nation Organization Security and Cooperation in
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, March 10, called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments about Israeli Arabs “divisive and unacceptable” and urged all candidates in Israel’s upcoming general election to avoid extremist rhetoric. In a campaign appearance on March 8, Minister Lieberman, who is head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, used
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Middle East, USABy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Remember when the technology experts tried to sell us on the notion that all of their gadgets would free us up, give us more leisure time and make life so much more enjoyable? We’ve been fooled into thinking that being offered the opportunity to “telecommute,” or work from anywhere
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Michael Mantell
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Many mammals and some birds escape the winter by hibernating for three to nine months. This period of dormancy permits species which would otherwise perish from the cold and scarce food to survive to see another spring. The Middle East, with temperate winters, was until recently considered an unlikely host for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education