By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– The concept of failed states has been around for a while, and has recently been morphed into the notion of fragile states. Perhaps the change is an expression of what is deemed politically correct in the halls of organizations that worry about such things, and claim to provide ranked lists of […]
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JERUSALEM (SDJW) — An arsonist set fire on Thursday, Feb. 26, to a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem, prompting condemnation from the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin and others. Rivlin spoke by phone with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and expressed his sadness and shock at the arson and graffiti attack on a building within the Greek
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By Boaz Bismuth/Israel Hayom/JNS.org Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-debated March 3 address to a joint session of Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat, former U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the focus on protocol and the speech’s venue, rather than on the content of Netanyahu’s message, “plays into the hands”
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — The Medrash tells us about the wicked king, Yerovom ben Nevat, who began his career as a righteous king but turned evil. Hashem had ordained him to split from the Kingdom of Judah, and form a separate kingdom called Kingdom of Israel of which he would be the
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV (Press Release)– It’s a fact: Women are vastly underrepresented in the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. But less clear are the trajectories — academic and otherwise — that lead young women toward other professions. Higher education has already opened the door to equal opportunities for women and minorities in the U.S. —
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — There are rare occasions when a concert seems so perfect, so moving, so beautiful, that we cannot imagine hearing the works played any better. Such was the definitive, pinnacle performance of the Jerusalem Quartet at Sherwood Hall last Saturday night, Feb. 21, presented by the La Jolla Music Society.
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–As part of the first cooperative venture of its kind between the University of Haifa and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Institute, a festive cornerstone laying ceremony was held launching the construction of the deep sea research labs for the Harry and Leona Helmsley Mediterranean Sea Research Center at the University
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JERUSALEM (WJC) — In a speech before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, Enver Hoxhaj, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations of the Kosovo and former minister of foreign affairs and of education, spoke about Kosovo’s desire to achieve recognition by the
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The major divide in past elections in Israel is said to have been between being Jewish and being Zionist. The Right claimed Judaism and left the Zionist rhetoric to the Left. That’s why in previous campaigns, the Labor Party had to persuade voters that it was also on the side of
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – How do you teach about the Holocaust to young people, whom, on the one hand we’d like to protect from learning how brutal the world can be, and whom, on the other hand, we know have to be prepared to live in a world where once again
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAUC Berkeley student gov. unanimously passes bill condemning anti-Semitism (JNS.org) Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), the student government at University of California (UC), Berkeley, on Wednesday passed a bill condemning anti-Semitism in a unanimous 20-0 vote. The bill details a history of anti-Semitic incidents in the 10-school UC system over the past
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Even more so than the Civil Rights movement, second-generation feminism changed the cultural, economic, political, and social dynamics of American life. Despite the persistence of sexism, we are more aware today about how it can be eliminated or reinforced in child rearing, government, health care, language, the mass media,
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, February 25, applauded the introduction of a Senate resolution, which condemns anti-Semitism and urges measures to prevent and combat anti-Semitic attacks and incidents. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are leading the effort with the support of more than
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