ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Press Release) — White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, en route to Miami where President Obama was to meet with the Latino community, answered questions on Wednesday, Feb. 25, about U.S. policy differences with Israel over Iran, and the nature of the President’s dispute with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here […]
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin received two delegations on Wednesday, Feb. 25– one from the makers of Apple Computers from the United States, the other representing Bedouin peoples of Israel. The Apple delegation was led by CEO Tim Cook, currently on a visit to Israel. Rivlin warmly welcomed Cook and his team. He said,
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Middle East, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — The limited Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank) is labeled by its enemies, and unfortunately by many media outlets, as an “occupation.” In reality, this limited presence is dictated mainly by Israeli security needs, and costs Israel significant resources and sometimes the lives of its
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Middle East, USAENCINITAS, California – The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities held its 37th Annual Gala, “Emerald City” at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla last Saturday, February 21st with Rusti Bartell Weiss serving as Gala Chair. The event was attended by more than 300 guests and raised over $425,000 to be used for the provision of
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Travel and Food
Memoirs of a Comatose Brain Surgeon by Dr. Charles Benedict Lewison; © 2013, ISBN 978-148-4880-272; 605 pages By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—My wife Nancy likes police detective shows and hospital dramas. In the latter category, I can remember sitting with her watching episode after episode of Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, ER, Macus Welby MD,
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — When warm air comes into contact with a cool surface and chills to saturation, fog materializes. It blankets open roads and runways and dramatically reduces visibility — often causing devastating accidents. A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, by Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Pinhas Alpert and
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Hamas security forces stopped Palestinian writer, Atef Abu Saif, from attending a book fair in Morocco recently where the noted writer and the fiction award finalist had been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to a report in Al-Monitor, Hamas stopped Abu Saif at the Erez
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Aharon Levi KIBBUTZ LAVI, Israel — Today, there isn’t a single hair on his head, just like the day he was born, but what they went through until he was born… Fifteen years, an ongoing story of suffering, branded its mark. They almost collapsed from all the disappointment, worry and hope, so anxious
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe Genius: Eliyahu of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism by Eliyahu Stern, Yale University Press, New Haven; ISBN 978-0-300-20592-3 ©2013, $27, p. 171, plus notes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The eighteenth century rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer held the moniker “the Genius of Vilna,” or simply the “Vilna Gaon,” for
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish HistoryBy Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Although the vast majority of Ethiopian Jews immigrated to Israel during the 1980’s and 1990’s, economic and social problems related to the hardships of immigration are still evident in their lives today. Moshe Selomon, a social entrepreneur, spoke to Tazpit News Agency about the actions he thinks should be
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Birthright Israel Foundation (BRIF), the organization that provides and builds the base of financial support for Taglit-Birthright Israel in North America, has tapped 14-year non-profit executive, Sarah Raful Whinston, as its first director of talent development. In her new role, Whinston will focus on recruitment and career development for
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
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, USA