LONDON (WJC) — The People’s Republic of China and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will, for the first time, be hosting an event in Shanghai later this year to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto and the end of World War II in China in September 1945. The event was […]
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International, Jewish HistoryIsrael Educates for Life By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — Having read so many recent stories of schoolchildren around the world being radicalized by Islamic extremists, here is a collection of contrasting education-related activities and news articles I’ve collected over the past few weeks concerning the Jewish State. I will begin in the Israeli school
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael’s Arrow 2 missile interceptor upgraded after failed test (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s Arrow 2 missile interceptor has recently undergone a series of upgrades and improvements following a failed test held last September, during which it was able to acquire its target but failed to neutralize it, a defense official said Tuesday. The Arrow
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — By all accounts, all political parties that can afford it use polls; they may publish only those that benefit their campaigns, but they study all of them very carefully. Commenting on results that appear elsewhere, often in newspapers, politicians who’re doing badly are anxious to tell us not to take
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– There are many–some of them well placed, and some of them Jews–who feel that on the short list of the most worthy causes is to create a Palestinian state and to downsize Israel, perhaps down to the size of nothing. Against them are several instances that question such grand aims, either
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League will confer the “Helene & Joseph Sherwood Family Prize for Combating Hate” to three individuals and two law enforcement units at an awards ceremony on March 10, 11:30 a.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Honorees include a deputy district attorney from San Diego County, Oscar Garcia.
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USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–On Monday evening, February 23, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid a condolence visit to the parents of Adele Biton, 4, the toddler who was critically injured by a Palestinian rock attack on her family’s car two years ago, and passed away last week from respiratory complications from a lung infection. “I
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Middle East
Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death by Debra Gordon Zaslow; 192 pages. White Cloud Books. $9.45 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — When Debra Gordon Zaslow visited her grandmother in a nursing home in Los Angeles, she quickly realized that, despite being 103 and showing some signs of dementia, her bubbe’s
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Feb. 24, issued a statement in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on March 3. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who plans to attend the prime minister’s speeches to both AIPAC and to members of Congress, said: While the original decision by
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (SDJW) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted Monday’s decision in a federal district court in New York City to find the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the victims of bombings and other attacks during the Second Intifada with the following comment: The US
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ First, it was Brian Williams lying about his experiences in Iraq. Next it was revealed that Bill O’Reilly hadn’t reported from a combat zone during the Falklands War. Now Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has admitted that he did not serve in the Special Forces as he once claimed. Doctors
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego has provided a grant to the MidraShow (www.midrashow.com), a joint project of The Orthodox Union’s NextGen Department in San Diego, OUNext, to be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego. Prior to the performance hors d’oeuvres and a beer
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Many Israelis and others are worried that Prime Minister Netanyahu has created a crisis in relations with the American president, and by extension, with the United States. But disagreements between Israel and its chief ally have been common ever since Israel declared its independence in 1948. It can
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA