NEW YORK (WJC) — The head of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday said that appointment of Hungarian far-right publicist Péter Szentmihályi Szabó as Hungary’s ambassador to Italy was “clearly an affront to Jews”. WJC President Ronald Lauder urged Italy to refuse the accreditation of Szentmihályi Szabó, who has penned anti-Semitic texts in the […]
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InternationalIsrael ranks ‘very high’ on U.N. human development index (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel ranks 19th in the world in the United Nations’ Human Development Index for 2014, according to the U.N.’s 2014 Human Development Report, released Thursday. Israel is among 49 nations the report ranks as having “very high human development.” The report, titled
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Travel and Food
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–On this coming Sunday, July 27, at 3:00 p.m., the 70 piece Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present its closing concert of the season: The Annual Pops Concert. This has been a popular series for TICO, now completing its fortieth season. The concert, titled “Music from Near and Far” will have
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San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Shimon Peres delivered a farewell address to the Knesset on Thursday, July 24, his last day in office as Israel’s President. Following is a text of his remarks: Members of Knesset, I have come to bid you farewell as a citizen, as a man whose dream is still alive. As a man who
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Zionist Organization of America are seeking the dismissal of teachers who created and implemented a classroom assignment in the Rialto (California) Unified School District in which students were invited to debate whether the Holocaust really happened. The organization released the following letter from Morton A. Klein, president,
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — As Gaza rockets continue to strike southern Israel, people in the the region’s lower-socioeconomic sectors are suffering even more with the current conditions. According to Israel’s National Food Bank, the country’s main food rescue network known as Leket Israel, the situation of southern Israel’s needy has become worse
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Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the early 1900s, Constantin Stanislavski—who invented what is known as “method acting”—said that to achieve great acting and great writing one has to know what a fictional character wants and needs. And it is not only our needs for food, shelter, and security, it has to
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Travel and Food
By Jeff Daube JERUSALEM –On Wednesday, July 23, 30,000 of us came together as one on Mount Herzl to pay tribute to chayal boded (lone soldier) Max Steinberg z”l. Max had left his comfortable world in Los Angeles, CA to fight with the brave IDF Golanis, only to be killed in combat in the terror snake
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Middle East, USA
By Nadine Epstein (From Moment Magazine, Momentmag.com) In this day and age, bringing a group of students to visit Auschwitz is so common it is barely noteworthy in the annals of experiential education. People from all over the world visit the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, where nearly a million Jews were killed and more
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The decision of the Federal Aviation Administration to permit flights between the United States and Tel Aviv to resume was applauded Thursday, July 24, by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, said, “We welcome the announcement by
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USAUNITED NATIONS, New York (WJC)–Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has said he was “alarmed” to hear that rockets were placed in a UN-run school in Gaza and now “have gone missing,” and he demanded a full review of such incidents. A statement by Ban’s spokesman expressed the UN chief’s “outrage and regret”
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International, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) — The latest flare-up in the Middle East catches children in the midst of their long-anticipated summer break. The wail of sirens replaces the jingle of ice cream trucks, and boys and girls dash to a bomb shelter instead of playing tag at the park. Young people are enduring a summer
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TNA)–Artists 4 Israel, a group that empowers artists to express their support for Israel and her cultural freedoms through the creation of art, established a ‘Bomb Shelter Museum’ set in front of Capitol Hill.. The bomb shelter is a replica of one used by Israeli citizens throughout Israel. Inside, pictures of the rocket
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) –The IDF has reportedly stabilized its lines and focused on Thursday, July 24, on mapping out and destroying the terror tunnels they have uncovered. So far, 31 tunnels have been uncovered and nine have been destroyed. IDF-Hamas fighting in Gaza remains intensive, as Hamas is still trying to carry out
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Middle East