TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Children of the Information Age are inundated with written words streaming across smartphone, tablet, and laptop screens. A new Tel Aviv University study says that preschoolers should be encouraged to write at a young age — even before they make their first step into a classroom. A new study published in […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday welcomed publication of the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report, which documented the lowest hate crimes since the enactment of the record-keeping law in 1991. The FBI HCSA report is the most comprehensive national snapshot of hate crimes in America. At the same time ADL
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–Both Houses of Congress last week approved a bill aimed at shutting a loophole that has allowed suspected Nazis to be paid millions of dollars in benefits. Under the bill, benefits would be terminated for Nazi suspects who have lost their American citizenship for lying about their Nazi past during World War II.
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy to summarize the career and current standing of Benyamin Netanyahu. His seven years in two separate periods as Prime Minister make him the longest serving head of government except for the founding Prime Minister David ben Gurion, whose own two periods as prime minister amounted to 13
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastReport: U.S. accuses Iran of violating nuclear sanctions (JNS.org) The U.S. informed a United Nations committee last month that Iran has been illicitly seeking to acquire components for its heavy-water reactor at Arak, Foreign Policy magazine reported Monday. According to the report, a U.S. delegation told the U.N. Security Council panel of experts monitoring sanctions
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International, Middle EastEditor’s Note: San Diego State University student Anthony Berteaux told about 400 people at a StandWithUs dinner on Sunday night, Dec. 7, why he changed his position from anti- Israel to pro- Israel. As we reported in our story on Monday, he received a standing ovation. Berteaux graciously has give us permission to reprint the text
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — When May Lee Davis was looking for a pizzazzy name to reflect her ascending career as a standup comedian, she was suddenly inspired by a large neon sign that identified the Santa Monica Pier. She added a well-placed P, and just like that, May Lee Davis became Monica
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The following is the text of a joint statement issued December 8 by the United States of America and France. “Today, France and the United States have signed an agreement in Washington to establish a compensation fund for those Holocaust victims deported from France who had not been able to
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) – Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools has brought its first mission of board members and prominent supporters to survey the newest initiatives and niche institutions from the charter school network. This is the first time that a large group of donors toured the institutions, equipment, facilities and programs which they have
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Following last week’s UAW 2865 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) vote, 22 education, civil rights and Jewish advocacy groups want to know whether University of California (UC) policies that prohibit UAW 2865 graduate student instructors from promoting BDS and anti-Israel, and often anti-Semitic, propaganda in the classroom also apply to
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– In the University of Haifa’s Community Ecology Lab, headed by Prof. Leon Blaustein, researchers have found a salamander tadpole which has two heads. Researchers at the lab, Dr Ori Segev and Antonina Plavikov, noted that while they had observed an incidence of deformity, especially among the limbs of salamanders, in the past
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationCRETEIL, France (WJC) — The French government on Sunday vowed to make the fight against anti-Semitism a “national cause,” following an attack on a Jewish couple last week. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve spoke at a rally in the Paris suburb of Créteil where the attack took place last Monday. Three assailants forced their way into an
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International
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)– Jim Joseph Foundation based here recently announced grant awards from its Fall 2014 Board meeting, totaling more than $5 million to a variety of Jewish education organizations. Grants were awarded to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, American Institutes for Research, Birthright Israel Foundation, and Kevah.The Foundation focuses on creating effective and compelling Jewish
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Solange SAN DIEGO – With Islamist terrorism striking globally and Palestinians and their supporters attempting to intimidate Jewish college students across America, StandWithUs put together a multi-religious line-up of speakers Sunday evening, Dec. 7, whose message, taken in the aggregate, was that the Jewish community is not alone,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA