By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Bob Corker (R-TN) on Friday, Jan. 9, released a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to defund the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). At the same time,
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Middle East, USABy Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — If I expected it to be comfortable to watch and contemplate and evaluate Ava DuVernay’s artistic triumph as director and un-credited screenwriter of Selma, then I devalued the deeply nuanced—and brave—realization of this unexpectedly brooding and appropriately disturbing movie. With imaginative, nimble performers who become, rather than play the
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USA
By Patricia Bennett SAN DIEGO– The headlines ache our hearts and race our minds: Carnage at Charlie Hebdo; kosher market killings. What can we do? Alienated youth are joining radical groups for meaning and identity in the face of social instability and lack of opportunity. When their sense of self is not developed because they lack
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International, USA
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO–Full Disclosure: I met Abbie Hoffman at a party in Mexico City when he was hiding out there as Barry Freed. He had had a nose job, but I knew who he was as I had been following his antics since 1968 and had read his books. We hit it
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Travel and Food
Compiled by Donald H. Harrison WASHINGTON, DC – It’s nice to know that there can be fun in Congress, and not only partisan wrangling. The U.S. Senators from Oregon are betting their colleagues from Ohio on the big college football game, with the winners of the bet to collect their due on the steps of
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Travel and Food
By Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit) – Over 1,000 people took part in a solidarity rally for the French people organized by the Jerusalem municipality. The rally was held Sunday, Jan. 11, at the city council hall. Officials expressed support by the city of Jerusalem, for the French people and the Jewish community in France, in light
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International, Middle East
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–In the summer after she graduated from college, my daughter Dena volunteered for a short stint with the Israel Defense Force. She was posted to a naval base outside Haifa, but because she didn’t speak Hebrew she was assigned to applying bright red paint to the curbs on the edge of
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Travel and Food
CHICAGO (Press Release)– A week ago, Dr. Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, Deputy Associate Chief of Staff and Clinical Neuroscientist at the Edward Hines JR VA Hospital, was ready to give up. For months, she had been attempting to secure medical air transport for U.S. Army Sergeant Jordan Adams, who was languishing in a coma in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin LAGUNA HILLS, California’– The woman in the center was celebrating her 100th birthday; the one to my right stepped into the photo and reminded me, “I’m older than her!” That’s the kind of moxie and strength that compels me to dedicate today (Jan. 11), my 62nd birthday, to the boomers and
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Travel and Food
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — When handed lemons some people complain, others make lemonade and one or two create Chateau Lafite Rothschild. In the late 1700’s when the ghetto gate slammed shut at night, the Jews of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were locked into an urban prison. The inhabitants of that horribly crowded ghetto
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Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Nothing is more boring that someone else’s weather. However, this is Jerusalem. And there is a policy angle to every story. Snow is a rarity. Until last year, it had only amounted to a 3-5 inches once every 5-10 years, with a dusting once or twice between then. Even a dusting frightens
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence on Thursday, Jan. 8, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson that left 6 people dead and injured 13 others, including then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona). She also released this
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Natan Sharansky is by no means the only Israeli who says that Europe is doomed, at least as far as the Jews are concerned. In view of what has happened in Paris this week, one headline I saw described his words as prophetic. But it’s not only France that Sharansky has
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International, Middle East, USA