Brigitte Bardot opposes kosher, hallal animal slaughter

PARIS (WJC)–The European Jewish Congress (EJC) on Tuesday expressed outrage after the publication of an open letter by former French actress Brigitte Bardot in which she called for a ban on religious slaughter of animals. EJC President Moshe Kantor said Bardot’s text was “deeply offensive and a slur against the Jewish people.” It also showed […]

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International, Jewish Religion

Faulconer: San Diego trains for terrorist attack

SAN DIEGO (SDONA)–Mayor Kevin Faulconer, interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” show Sunday, said thwarting terrorists requires a partnership with law enforcement at the neighborhood level. “The threat is constantly evolving, and you have to be ahead of it,” Faulconer told host Candy Crowley. He said San Diego says ahead of the threat though a

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San Diego County

Dan Meridor to head ICFR

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Veteran Israeli statesman Dan Meridor has been appointed as the new president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), a foreign affairs think-tank which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Meridor will succeed former Israeli ambassador Avi Primor. Meridor was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He served in successive

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Middle East

Egypt reportedly offers Abbas a Palestinian state in the Sinai (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reportedly offered Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state in Sinai. Egypt had been working on the proposal for several weeks and presented it to Abbas in Cairo over the weekend, Army Radio reported Monday.

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Travel and Food

Daish or Putin–which is more dangerous?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The most dangerous challenge.  Is it Daish or Vladimir Putin? For the time being, Israelis are observers of those quarreling whether–or how–to deal with Daish or Putin. With respect to Putin, The reserve of some stems from Ukrainians’ bad name in Jewish history. For others, it results from Ukrainians’ dismal

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

You think your personal calendar is complex?

By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — Many people believe that the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar because the months are determined by the motion of the moon, resulting in a year of twelve full-lunar cycles, or a little less than 354½ days. However, if the Jewish calendar were a lunar calendar, then each

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education