Barbra Streisand’s Avinu Malkeinu
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Travel and FoodHealth- wealth correlation high in U.S.
TEL 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, & EducationAs Rosh Hashanah nears, what is a Jew?
By 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 ReligionHumoring the Headlines: September 23, 2014
By 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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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNaddaf: Christians safest in Israel
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 EastAnother honor for ‘The Golem and The Jinni’
NEW 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 FoodJNS news briefs: September 23, 2014
Hamas 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 FoodCan Brookings Inst. really be objective?
By 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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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAAmateur klezmer group has well- known coach
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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Travel and FoodKerry announces more U.S. $$$ to Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Monday, Sept. 22, that the United States is providing more than $71 million in additional life-saving humanitarian assistance to help meet emergency needs in Gaza. More than 58,000 people are still sheltering in United Nations facilities and basic necessities like food, clean water, and fuel
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Middle East, USANA’AMAT seeks reversal of Hobby Lobby decision
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — At its National Board meeting held in Chicago on September 5th, NA’AMAT USA passed the following resolution which was sent to the White House. Dear President Obama, We, the officers and board members of NA’AMAT USA, a national and international organization promoting the welfare rights of women, children and families in Israel
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFood not tasty? Try eating it elsewhere
HAIFA (Press Release)–Have you ever eaten something totally new and it made you sick? Don’t give up; if you try the same food in a different place, your brain will be more “forgiving” of the new attempt. In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa, researchers found
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