The Jewish comedians: Moshe Kasher
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Travel and FoodPolls indicate election will not be conclusive
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An unimportant election? Yes, insofar as it is apparent from recent polls that the real work will come later. The leaders of the two large parties, neither of which may reach a quarter of the total Knesset, and nine smaller parties will make claims to the President. Then he’ll have a week
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastQ&A for those considering a transplant
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Bonnie and Raymond Schwartz are an unusual couple, although probably not unique in this regard: One is a transplant donor, the other is a transplant recipient, and their benefactor and beneficiary were not each other. Today, the couple often lectures about the emotions, the procedures, and the “how
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationWays to join the 20% of Americans who are healthy
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 FoodIsrael prepares for conflict along Syrian border
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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Middle East, USAHungarian Jewish experience probed in exhibit
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, USAJewish news briefs: March 11, 2015
Israeli 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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Middle EastCampus tension evaporates for Israeli diplomat’s talk
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, USAPartisan rift widens over Iran
By 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, USANew Israel Fund CEO responds to attacks from the right
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, USAZOA tells objections to Robert Malley
NEW 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, USA‘Defiant Requiem’ screening to be concert prelude
By 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 FoodEfforts underway to combat anti- Semitism in Europe
WASHINGTON, 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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