AJC urges Virginia State Bar to reconsider Israel trip

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging the Virginia State Bar to reconsider its decision to cancel plans to hold its 2015 Midyear Legal Seminar in Israel. The cancellation, according to the Washington Post, came in response to a petition by some state bar members protesting Israeli security procedures regarding visitors.

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Middle East, USA

Computer screen? Roll your own!

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — From smartphones and tablets to computer monitors and interactive TV screens, electronic displays are everywhere. As the demand for instant, constant communication grows, so too does the urgency for more convenient portable devices — especially devices, like computer displays, that can be easily rolled up and put away, rather than requiring

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

How the P.A. pays for murder, terror

By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional legislators were astonished last year to learn that the Palestinian Authority was issuing monthly payouts totaling $3-7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to specific terrorists and their families. The money was channeled, in part, through the Ministry of Prisoners pursuant to the Law of the Prisoner. The

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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA

Reform’s Rabbi Jacobs offers distorted view of Mideast

By J. J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO — On March 21, 2015, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Reform movement gave a speech at the 5th J Street National Conference in Washington, D.C.  (see http://tinyurl.com/nc6ffrk). This was an astonishing, not to say disturbing speech.He started off by reciting the usual obligatory mantra, without even seemingly realizing how absurd it

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu: Emerging N-deal worse than feared

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the outline of a nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers as even “worse” than he had feared. “While [world powers] convene to sign this deal, Iran’s proxies in Yemen are seizing large swaths of land with an aim to overtake Bab al-Mandab strait so that they

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International, Middle East, USA

2014 saw 912 anti- Semitic incidents in U.S.

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza. The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today,

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Jewish History, USA

Decoding Barack Obama

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy–it may not be possible–to identify the real Barack Obama. We can say the same about other–perhaps all–politicians who reach the top of a steep climb. Yet the Obama puzzle is especially daunting, given his position at the head of the most powerful country of them all. His

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Hillary Clinton: Return Israel- U.S. relations to normal

NEW YORK (Press Release)– Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a telephone discussion with Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, that she thinks “we need to all work together to return the special US-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared concerns and

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Middle East, USA

NGOs to distribute food for Pesach in Israel

  By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–It goes without saying that countless families in Israel are unable to afford the Passover Seder meal but two charitable organizations, Leket Israel and Colel Chabad are working to change that reality. Colel Chabad, the oldest continuously running social services organization in Israel, founded in 1788, has been charged by the

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Jewish Religion, Middle East