WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which provides direct financial support to grassroots organizations in Haiti, applauds Congress for passing the Assessing Progress in Haiti Act, which will ensure transparency in how U.S. funds are allocated to assist ongoing efforts to recover from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. AJWS is the leading
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International, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service’s Ways to Work program announced that it has issued its 100th loan since the program began in San Diego in 2012. Ways to Work provides low-interest car loans and education to credit-challenged, working families. The program allows for families to have a better quality of life and
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San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─In a vote that split along party lines, the House Committee on Rules approved pursuing John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama. Coincidentally, President Obama introduced legislation to ban frivolous lawsuits. * Fiscal hawks are losing their plumage. Rick Perry dispatched 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to deter unaccompanied
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Dalia Burgana KIRYAT MALACHI, Israel — For the past two weeks, the lives of residents of Kiryat Malachi have been disrupted by many air raid sirens (referred to as “tzeva adom” or “red color) and echoes of rockets exploding in the area. A large part of the old, four-story apartment buildings in town are
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — The chairman of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, US Congressman Eliot L. Engel, has called on European nations to provide security measures for their respective Jewish communities. His call came in the wake of increased anti-Semitic violence around Europe, which has in part been sparked by the current conflict between
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International, Middle East, USA
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 East