TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at his Tel Aviv office on Thursday evening, Feb. 12, with IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz ahead of the latter’s stepping down and the IDF Chief-of-Staff changeover ceremony, which is due to be held on Monday, Feb. 16, in Jerusalem. At the start of the meeting, Prime
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)–The winners of the 2015 Dan David Prize, which annually bestows three awards of $1 million each. The announcement of the winners was made on February 10 by Tel Aviv University President Prof. Joseph Klafter, chairman of the Dan David Prize Board of Directors, and Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Chairman of the Dan
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego has selected three teens, Lily Greenberg Call, Joshua Kahn and Noah Levinson, to receive the Peter Chortek Leadership Award. Presented annually, the Award recognizes three exceptional teens who demonstrate excellence in community service, philanthropy and leadership. This year, the recipients have all positively impacted the
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San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–An early election poster on behalf of the Zionist Union had a picture of its two leaders, Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, over the caption: “It’s us or him!” The voters were to be given the option of either more of the same or a very different, better government. The mood
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — According to the Torah, Jews are forbidden to charge other Jews interest when they loan them money: “If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor: exact no interest from him.” (Ex. 22:24) In the Talmud the
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Jewish ReligionIsrael’s Steinitz says Iran not compromising on 7 of 8 nuclear issues (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Iran is refusing to compromise on seven out of the eight key points in its nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 powers, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Thursday. Steinitz said that if the two sides are indeed
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Middle East, USABy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — There is no such thing as stress. Got that? Good. Then why are you wasting so much of your time with “stress management” programs, lectures, coaches, books, articles and websites? Could it be because you really don’t believe that there’s no such thing as stress? Oh, I
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Michael MantellBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It took Barack Obama less than six months between his inauguration and a policy initiative that sought to put the Middle East on the path to democracy, equality, and religious tolerance. Those were the themes of his Cairo speech, and you all know where we are now. After dealing with
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison The White House finds itself in another flap over whether it is insensitive to Jewish suffering. Previously, President Obama referred to the shooting of four people in the Hyper Cacher market in Paris as “random,” notwithstanding the fact that the market was a kosher one and all four murdered victims
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Run Boy Run follows the harrowing odyssey of a Polish-Jewish youngster named Srulik who evades betrayal by anti-Semitic Poles and capture by the Germans for three years. Through flashbacks, the audience learns that his father had him smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto after he promised that he would survive
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Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin hosted at his residence on Wednesday, Feb. 11, Ambassadors to Israel from Latin American countries. At the beginning of the meeting, the President said he was delighted to welcome the ambassadors to his residence. He said, “These are not easy times, when we are across the region, dealing with the
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— The principle of adaptation — the gradual modification of a species’ structures and features — is one of the pillars of evolution. While there exists ample evidence to support the slow, ongoing process that alters the genetic makeup of a species, scientists could only suspect that there were also organisms capable
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press-Release) –In response to the murders of Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha in Chapel Hill, NC, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement: We are deeply saddened by the murders this week of Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat
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