BRUSSELS (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress on Friday, July 11, applauded a French plan to combat radicalization and terrorism and urged the adoption of a law before France’s Parliament banning travel to Syria and blocking access to jihadist websites. “Given the number of French citizens radicalized by their training on the Syrian battlefield, we […]
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WJC) –The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the country’s Zionist Federation on Thursday strongly condemned a one-sided statement on the conflict in Gaza issued by the ruling ANC party’s Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte. “The State of Israel has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO– In parashat Pinchas we continue reading about the Israelites’ adventures as they camped through the Sinai desert….which, of course, reminds me of my trip to visit Tifereth Israel’s kids at Camp Ramah last week! It has been a couple of years since Judy and I visited camp, which is
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Jane Scher as Board Chair as of July 1. A statement from the Jewish Community Foundation added the following: “Jane’s leadership experience spans 13 years as a Foundation board member, including serving as Vice Chair and Secretary. Jane
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San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We’ve been here countless times, and the general picture is all too familiar. Our Jerusalem residence close to Arab villages is an element of safety. We’re pretty near the limit of what the Gazans can shoot, and they are most likely aiming for areas more certainly Jewish. However, their aim is far
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (TNA)–I literally trembled with emotion when I held the two volumes ofPogrom Night 1938: A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany. Together they comprise over seven hundred pages which are packed with information about the more than one thousand synagogues and prayer rooms that existed in pre-WWII Germany
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish HistoryBy Aryeh Savir HAIFA, Israel –Rambam Health Care Campus provides medical care to hundreds of patients from Gaza and the Palestinian Authority (PA) year round. 650 children and teenagers in were treated in the hospital throughout 2013. Currently, hospitalized patients include 3 adults and 8 children from Gaza, and 3 adults and 2 children from
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Middle EastIsrael’s center, south remain under heavy rocket fire (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As Israel entered the third day of Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets into Israeli cities and towns across the map. Since Tuesday, Hamas and other Gaza terrorist groups have launched rockets as far as 73
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Middle East
-Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most famous attacks in WWII was when the Allies bombed Dresden. British historians love debating whether the wholesale destruction of this once beautiful city and symbol of humanism and baroque culture was really, “necessary.” Dresden is one of the tragic images that
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Travel and FoodNew Israeli forum to fight academic boycotts (JNS.org) The Committee of University Heads in Israel on Tuesday announced the establishment of a forum to fight academic boycotts of Israel. “This type of boycott is a dangerous process that is contrary to the spirit of research,” said committee chairman and Hebrew University of Jerusalem President Professor
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Middle East
By Yaniv Hassidoff JERUSALEM (TNA) — As missiles fell Wednesday afternoon, July 9, as far north as Zichron Ya’acov and following the rising tensions and ongoing preparations of the Israeli Home-Front Command, Haifa’s mayor Yona Yahav has instructed emergency teams today to refresh emergency procedures. Furthermore, he instructed to raise the level of alertness of
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — “I am not an Israeli intelligence agent, nor an assassin,” Daniel Silva replied when I asked if his character, Gabriel Allon, was autobiographical. However, after multiple, highly acclaimed novels, the New York Times bestselling author told me he trusts Gabriel’s character to direct the action, stating that he
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress voiced full support for Israel as it widened ‘Operation Protective Edge’ in response to hundreds of rockets fired at Israel by the Hamas regime in Gaza, including at least one rocket reportedly aimed at Tel Aviv. “Israelis know that world Jewry stands side-by-side with them as work
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