Israeli-issued Passover travel warnings include Egypt and Turkey (JNS.org) In its biannual report for Israeli tourists, the Counterterrorism Bureau at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday warned that after Islamist terror attacks in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Denmark, and France over the past year, there is a possibility of further jihadist attacks against Israeli and
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International, Middle East, USAMELVILLE, New York — This week’s question comes from RASHI, RAMBAM and HAGGADAH-LAMADINGDONG: A Quiz Haggadah of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun. Readers may obtain a free copy by visiting http://rrrjewishtrivia.com/rashi-rambam-and-haggadah.html. Which of the following are all real Haggadot? A. Sixty-Minute Seder, Reudor’s the Doodled Family Haggadah, and Fifty Shades of Haggadah. B. Sammy Spider’s First Haggadah, Haggadah in Another Dimension, and The Celebrated
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Child sex abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community, indeed in any community, is not an easy topic to discuss. It isn’t an easy topic to write about either, especially in a Jewish publication. But when Judy Bloom Friedel called and asked if I would moderate a panel
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC has praised the bipartisan group of 367 members of the House who sent a letter to President Obama underscoring key conditions for a nuclear agreement with Iran. The letter was initiated by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-California) and Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-New York). The letter
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is saddened by the death of Lee Kuan Yew, who served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. He was 91 years old. Lee led Singapore’s separation from Malaysia and independence in 1965. He oversaw the country’s transformation from a fairly underdeveloped colonial outpost
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SAN DIEGO — Israeli Food Critic Gil Hovav, who is a great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, will be the featured speaker at an event showcasing Israeli foods. At 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 25, he will lecture at the Bottles & Wood, 5039 Shawline Street in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The State Department has announced the withdrawal of its personnel from Yemen. It issued this statement on Sunday, March 22: Due to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen, the U.S. Government has temporarily relocated its remaining personnel out of Yemen. We have informed President Hadi of this step as part
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Netanyahu won Israel in last week’s elections, but did he lose America in the process? Panicking not long before polling stations opened, the prime minister made two statements to woo voters: warning that Israel’s Arab citizens would vote “in droves” for their own and, second, that there would be
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Gevalt! This is not meant to mourn the election results, but the month or more of haggling and babbling that will surround us until there is a new government. Several times a day we’ll be hearing commentators speculating about who gets what ministries. Just as often we’ll hear the self-appointed “ranking”
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 1937, Mendel Cohen, a Jewish carpenter living in Jerusalem met Abdullah, the King of Jordan, at the home of the High Commissioner of the British Mandate Authority in Palestine. The Commissioner was leaving for England and Cohen was helping him to pack. Many of the items were delicate
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) became an original cosponsor of the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act to allow borrowers with high interest rates on their existing student loans in both the public and private markets to refinance these existing loans to lower interest rates. This would make these existing loans
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)–From computers, tablets, and smartphones to cars, homes, and public transportation, our world is more digitally connected every day. The technology required to support the exchange of massive quantities of data is critical. That’s why scientists and engineers are intent on developing faster computing units capable of supporting much larger amounts of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationLAUSANNE, Switzerland (Press Release)–Following is an excerpt of the comments made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 21, on the status of the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran: SECRETARY KERRY: … I also want to thank particularly the Swiss Government. I’d like to thank Didier Burkhalter for his personal generous welcome to
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