Tax status challenge to Presbyterian Church USA

NEW YORK (Press Release)– Shurat HaDin, a civil rights organization based in Israel, has filed a whistleblower action against the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  In its 38 page complaint, the group provides substantial evidence that PCUSA violated its non-profit tax-exempt status for engaging in a range of prohibited activities

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Advocate exposes true face of BDS

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin BERKELEY, California — “Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers.” These words were spoken by Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, at a Nov. 12 panel discussion at U.C. Berkeley organized by the BDS Caucus of UAW 2865,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

CBI’s Rabbi Jodie Gerson to be installed Dec. 5

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Congregation Beth Israel will officially install Rabbi Jordie Gerson as its assistant rabbi in a Shabbat celebration on Friday, December 5 at 6:15 p.m. Rabbi Gerson started as assistant rabbi of Beth Israel in July. Rabbi Gerson’s father, Rabbi Gary Gerson, rabbi emeritus of Oak Park Temple in Oak Park, Illinois

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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Protecting Jewish student rights on college campuses

By Melanie Goldberg/JNS.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. (JNS) — It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year that featured Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement. You’d expect that of any student opposed to the speaker’s anti-Israel views. I planned to challenge Barghouti

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

French National Assembly seeks recognition of Palestine

PARIS (Press Release) – The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, adopted today, by a vote of 339 to 151, a resolution urging the French government to recognize the state of Palestine as a step to achieve a resolution of the conflict. “The path to sustainable, permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace is direct bilateral negotiations, and not

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Middle East, USA

45 shorts among offerings at S.D. Jewish Film Festival

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Celebrating the San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Silver Anniversary, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 5-15, 2015.  Sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. On February 9th, 45 short films beginning at 10:00am to 7:30pm

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: December 2, 2014

Report: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made

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Middle East, USA

Surviving the Holidays?

Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–In .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” Millions of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many

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Michael Mantell