Above: Bedouin girl at Al Sayed Technological High School. Below: Bedouin boys in electronics class at same school (Photos: Anav Silverman) By Anav Silverman BE’ER SHEVA, Israel — In the sandy dunes of the northern Negev desert between Arad and Be’er Sheva, 130 students who belong to a local Bedouin tribe, study at the Al-Sayed Technological
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHamas bans Gaza orphans from peace-building trip to Israel (JNS.org) The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has barred a group of 37 orphans in Gaza from visiting Israel as part of a peace-building trip meant to heal wounds between the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to trip organizers, the group, which included children ages 13-16,
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron January –The Russian police have alerted spectators at the Sochi Olympics to be on the outlook for several “Black Widow Terrorists, women from Dagestan whose husbands were killed by Russian anti-terrorist squads. There are posters throughout the Olympic venues informing spectators how to identify these women: If you meet a woman on
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ZIKHRON YA’AKOV, Israel –The tragic and sudden death in a traffic accident of our daughter’s father-in-law, Eli Goldstein, brought an abrupt and untimely stop to the life of a man who was born on the land and worked the land throughout his life. His funeral, which was attended by what seemed to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Get ready for our already ugly and violent 21st century to be the century of soft targets for terrorists. The number of places where people feel safe will diminish as terrorists pick new venues to increase body counts — and grab more of that new and mainstream media publicity
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Joe Gandelman, Middle East, Travel and Food, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced its public schedule for 2015: • Its Spring lecture series “Israel in the 21st Century: New Hopes, New Challenges,” will feature noted scholars: Dr. Mark A. Heller, Principal Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv; Dr. Mohammed Wattad,
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) – Want to determine how a couple falls in love? In Israel? A group of Tel Aviv students is utilizing the latest interactive video technology to tell a love story and give Israeli tourism a boost. The Tel Aviv University students are part of the StandWithUs Fellowship, an Israeli campus
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Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a victory for those seeking political limits on art and speech in communal institutions, Washington’s Jewish Community Center has fired the artistic director of the acclaimed Theater J. His ouster caps a successful campaign by a small group of activists to shutter the theater over the content of its
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The political situation in Israel is volatile, particularly before a general election. Only a few days ago I could speculate about Avigdor Lieberman not only as a kingmaker but as a potential king. He had spoken about his readiness to be prime minister. At the end of the piece
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–Jeremy Dauber, is a professor of Yiddish literature at Columbia University, Director of Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, teaches in the American Studies program and has written several books within these special areas of study. The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: the Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man who
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Avigdor Lieberman is Israel’s Foreign Minister, as well as the ruling head of Israel Beitenu (Israel our Home), a political party originally focused on immigrants from the former Soviet Union with campaign posters in Russian and Hebrew. Lieberman began his political career as an activist in the Likud student organization at the
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By Caren Besner BOYNTON BEACH, Florida–Fratricide is an ugly word. It evokes the image of siblings in conflict with one another. The Old Testament is replete with stories of such disharmony, that serve both as a lesson in morality and a warning for future generations. The story of Cain and Abel, the enslavement of Joseph in
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Richard Quest is a popular news reporter and desk anchor for CNN, and while his name doesn’t sound Jewish, the British lawyer and journalist is Jewish. I once asked him a few years ago by email what kind of of ethnic name ”Quest” was, and he told me
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Travel and FoodBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the 19th century, Wilhelm Marr , known as “the father of modern antisemitism,” coined the word “antisemitismus.” But the pathological hatred of Jews has a long history. In the antiquity, the Pharaoh who ‘didn’t know Joseph” decreed to kill all the Jewish newborn males; and Haman
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