By Mimi Pollack RAMONA, California – Dr. Laurie Marker, a wildlife researcher who is considered one of the world’s top experts on cheetahs, recently visited the home of Roy and Robin Toft here as part of her Fall 2014 tour to talk about her work in Namibia, Africa, as founder and director of the
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Mimi Pollack, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We SharePalestinians riot on Temple Mount before Rosh Hashanah (JNS.org) Dozens of masked Palestinian youths shot fireworks at police officers at the Mughrabi Gate as the Temple Mount was opened for visitors on Wednesday morning before Rosh Hashanah,Israel Hayom reported. The Israel Police Special Patrol Unit and Border Police rounded up the rioters in an effort
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Travel and FoodBy Shlomo Cesana, Gonen Ginat, and Amos Regev JERUSALEM (JNS.org) –In his office, next to photos of his wife and family, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps a portrait of Theodor Herzl. “He was a prophet. A modern prophet,” Netanyahu says, further naming Zionist pioneer Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and Likud
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— America’s Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — was signed into law in 2010 and promised the largest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the 1960s. Designed to provide medical care to uninsured Americans, it has been widely decried as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals. However,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, Californa — A Jew is a constituent of the longest-running, most confounding, hardest to categorize, most widely-scattered, historically hunted and murdered, nomadic, demographically-challenged, resilient, despised, and admired faith community without a firmly-set liturgy in history. A Jew is a nationality without a nation who therefore is sincerely and deeply hyper-patriotic
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The United States and coalition countries like Saudi Arabia bombed ISIS targets in Syria. A spokesperson for the Saudis explained, “We find the beheadings of Western journalists abhorrent. Beheadings should be reserved only for the gravest of crimes like witchcraft.” * Questions are being raised about how a man with
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By Anav Silverman GENEVA, Switzerland – In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Sept, 23, Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Israeli Arab Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth, called attention to the plight of Christian minorities suffering under Muslim extremists in the Arab world. Speaking immediately after a panel discussion on the “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) – Hadassah Magazine has announced that Helene Wecker, author of the acclaimed novel The Golem and the Jinni, is the winner of the 2014 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. For the past 30 years, Hadassah Magazine has awarded the Ribalow prize annually to an author who has created an outstanding
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Travel and FoodHamas terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Israeli teens killed in Hebron (JNS.org) Hamas terrorists Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh—who kidnapped and murdered Israeli teens Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel in June—were killed Tuesday in a joint Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Police, and Shin Bet security agency operation in Hebron. The bodies of
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Does something smell especially bad? Or is it just the normal smell of political infighting and mutual accusation? Front and center is Martin Indyk, his past and present roles as a leading figure in the Brookings Institution, Qatar’s multi-million dollar gifts to Brookings, the failure of Indyk to broker a deal
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By Emily Nye SAN DIEGO — To tell the story of Honorable Menschen, San Diego’s newest amateur klezmer band, I must take you through my klezmer awakening. When I first heard klezmer music as a young woman, my body responded before my brain: my toes tapped, my torso vibrated, and I wanted to dance. This
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