By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — Long-awaited winter rains, plus my recent trip to the Arava in southern Israel are the inspiration for this week’s report. The Arava region in Israel’s Negev “desert” now produces 60% of Israel’s exports of food crops, right alongside massive fields of solar panels. It is a microcosm of Israel’s […]
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsraeli High Court proposes compromise for Charlie Hebdo distribution (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday discussed a petition filed by the Yisrael Beiteinu political party that requests the lifting of an injunction against distributing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In late January, after receiving threats, Israel’s Steimatzky bookstore chain
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By Miriam Raftery East County Magazine SAN DIEGO’S EAST COUNTY (SDONA)—Last week, a young Jewish man was shot and killed outside a Copenhagen synagogue. In Paris, as many as 250 Jewish graves were desecrated. At the University of California in Davis, California earlier this month, swastikas were sprayed on a Jewish fraternity houseafter a demonstration by
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Also transliterated from the Hebrew as Beth Shean, this is the biblical city where King Saul and his sons met their demise in a battle with the Philistines. Their bodies were displayed on the walls of the city, according to I Samuel 31:10, 12. Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets the credit for spotting
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israelis and their government’s policies, not with Jews themselves. But
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ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– With growing demand from eager 20-somethings passionate about creating Jewish community for their peers, Moishe House, which has a branch in this San Diego suburb, is expanding its presence around the world. Due to significant interest from young Jewish communities, Moishe House opened 16 houses last year, including several across Europe
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International, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison House Speaker John Boehner says that Congress had “every right” to invite Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session. “I wanted the prime minister to come here,” Boehner told an interviewer on Fox News Sunday. “There’s a serious threat facing the world, and radical Islamic terrorists
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Donald H. HarrisonNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Feb. 17, harshly criticized remarks by Roland Dumas, a former foreign minister of France, who in a televised interview claimed that Prime Minister Manuel Valls was “under Jewish influence” because his wife is Jewish. Dumas made the remark in a televised interview on BFMTV on Monday.
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International, USABy Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California — Above and Beyond, produced by Nancy Spielberg (the youngest sister of her famous brother Steven) and deftly directed by Roberta Grossman whose film Hava Nagila screened at the 2014 San Diego Jewish Film Festival, dramatically tells the miraculous story of how Israel’s ragtag Air Force was created and
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has appointed Heather Wolfson as Senior Director of Community Partnerships. She will work closely with the CEO, Board of Directors, partners and Federation staff to implement mission-driven initiatives in three strategic areas: “building a vibrant and long-lasting Jewish community for future generations, broadening and
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San Diego CountyBy David Strom LA JOLLA, California — Congratulations to the San Diego Jewish Film Festival for the success of its 25th anniversary presentations. On the final day of the Festival, February 15, 2015 I was privileged to view two excellent films that were unified by a common theme, as expressed in Deuteronomy 16:20 “Justice, justice,
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One in five Israelis are still undecided about for whom to vote in the March 17 elections. All the parties are after them. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Washington two weeks before the elections is ostensibly about saving Israel from a nuclear Iran by persuading the Americans not to
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Increasing its commitment to help those affected by the crisis in Syria, the United States is providing an additional $125 million in humanitarian assistance to the UN World Food Program (WFP), which feeds nearly six million Syrians and refugees from Syria every month. The announcement was made Tuesday, Feb. 17, by Kelly Clements,
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