Affiliation choices often depend on time and $$$

Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel U. Chiswick, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA; ISBN 978-0-8047-7605-9 ©2014, $22.95, p. 201, plus Reference material By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Words to an old folksong read, “If religion were a thing that money could buy, then the rich would live and the poor […]

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Davis praises new regs on service personnel finances

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) praised the Obama Administration for its new regulations to boost financial protections for military families – an issue that Davis has championed in Congress. “These added protections will help end the vicious cycle of high interest rates, high debt, and allow servicemembers to get their

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USA

AJC: Abbas speech ‘work of verbal arsonist’

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the UN General Assembly a rhetorical cocktail of hatred, deceit and distortion. Once again, as in his previous UN speeches, Abbas undermined prospects for advancing peace. “President Abbas today offered no fresh ideas, indeed no hope for peace,” said AJC Executive Director

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Travel and Food

Israeli leaders, experts, focus on cyber- security

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that cyber defense solutions will serve as the essential basis for human development and economic growth in this century — I think it’s happening before our very eyes,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told leading policymakers and cybersecurity experts at the 4th Annual International

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

U.N. peace keepers don’t live up to their name

By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view

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International, Middle East

Forgotten Jewish music and art subjects of grant

LEEDS, England  (Press Release) –A major international research project led by the University of Leeds in the UK has attracted significant funding to shine new light on forgotten works by Jewish artists. Performing the Jewish Archive has been awarded £1,534,076 (US$2.5 million) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Care for the

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