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ZOA: France, Spain, Italy issue false warnings

July 1, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the France, Spain and Italy for issuing ‘warnings’ to their businesses not to conduct commerce with Jews living in Judea/Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. In recent days, Spain and Italy published advisories, warning their citizens against doing business with ‘settlements,’ just days

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International, Middle East

WJC opens global mourning book for 3 teens

July 1, 2014

NEW YORK (WJC)– In reaction to the discovery of the bodies of the three Israeli teenagers abducted and murdered by terrorists on Monday, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) is mobilizing Jewish communities around the world in support of the victims’ families and the people of Israel. “This horrendous crime has sent shock waves throughout the

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International, Middle East

Families, officials eulogize 3 murdered teens

July 1, 2014

By Anav Siverman and Aryeh Savir MODI’IN, Israel (TNA) — The families of the three murdered Israeli teens conducted separate services and eulogies before laying their children side-by-side in a joint funeral in the Modi’in cemetery on Tuesday, July 1. Thousands gathered together in the home communities of Gil-ad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16)

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Middle East

RZA urges U.S. political campaign against Hamas

July 1, 2014

By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn PHILADELPHIA –Jews throughout the United States will hold memorial services this week to mourn the murders of the three Israeli teenagers. There will be tears, there will be prayers, there will be words of consolation. And then the mourning needs to be followed by action — political action. The

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Middle East, USA

New outpost created at Ma’ aleh Adumim

July 1, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – During the early hours of the morning a group of some thirty Israelis established a new community in the disputed E1 area near Ma’aleh Adumim. The members of the group announced that their action is in response to the murder of the three boys. Five months ago 15,000 protesters

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Middle East

Mandel will tell where CBI’s been and going

July 1, 2014

SAN DIEGO — Meg Mandel, president of Congregation Beth Israel, will tell the Men’s Club Dinner Forum about the year in review and look ahead into the future at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 16. Mandel has been a member of Beth Israel since she and her family moved to San Diego from Iowa in 2006.

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San Diego County, Travel and Food

Israel ponders options in wake of 3 teens’ murders

June 30, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The IDF and Israel’s other security services have found the bodies of the missing boys. Indications are that they were killed shortly after being taken. The operation throughout the West Bank, along with an escalation with respect to Gaza, is not only about the boys. There have been more than

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

9 Jewish House Demos decry Hobby decision

June 30, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Nine Jewish Democrats in the House of Representatives joined the denunciation of a decision on Monday, June 30, by the Supreme Court in which it decided in favor of the Hobby Lobby, which, on religious grounds, sought permission to deny health care coverage to women for certain contraceptives. The three Jewish

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Congress members urge support for Jordan

June 30, 2014

AMMAN, Jordan (Press Release)– U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida), Ranking Member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued the following statement after visiting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and touring a refugee camp for Syrians who fled the

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Middle East

Jewish justices, senators oppose Hobby decision

June 30, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Small, closely held businesses don’t have to pay for certain contraceptives for female employees if they violate the employers’ religious beliefs, The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday, June 30, in a narrow 5-4 decision, in which the three Jewish justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elana Kagen — were

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Hyper-active protein seen as factor in Alzheimer’s

June 30, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Patients with Alzheimer’s disease run a high risk of seizures. While the amyloid-beta protein involved in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s seems the most likely cause for this neuronal hyperactivity, how and why this elevated activity takes place hasn’t yet been explained — until now. A new study by Tel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

San Diego D.A. wins settlement from Rite Aid

June 30, 2014

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced her office’s Consumer Protection Unit, working with the Riverside and Alameda District Attorneys’ Offices and the State Board of Pharmacy, has obtained a $498,250 settlement in a consumer protection lawsuit brought against the owners of the Rite Aid pharmacy chain in California. The civil complaint, filed

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

UCSD, Cal State system reps visiting Israel

June 30, 2014

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – A delegation of presidents and chancellors from top U.S. universities are visiting Israel to explore opportunities for bilateral academic partnerships and collaboration through an educational seminar conducted by Project Interchange, an institute of AJC (American Jewish Committee). The delegation will meet with their counterparts from Israeli universities, including Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Hebrew

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

3 Israeli teens murdered; Jewish world reacts

June 30, 2014

Developing Story HALHUL, Israel (TNA) — The bodies of the three abducted boys –Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha’ar (16), Eyal Yifrah (19) — were found Monday, June 30 by IDF searchers. They disappeared on June 12 from a hitchhiking spot not far from this community where their bodies were discovered. The teams working to recover

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Middle East

ZOA: France, Spain, Italy issue false warnings

WJC opens global mourning book for 3 teens

Families, officials eulogize 3 murdered teens

RZA urges U.S. political campaign against Hamas

New outpost created at Ma’ aleh Adumim

Mandel will tell where CBI’s been and going

Israel ponders options in wake of 3 teens’ murders

9 Jewish House Demos decry Hobby decision

Congress members urge support for Jordan

Jewish justices, senators oppose Hobby decision

Hyper-active protein seen as factor in Alzheimer’s

San Diego D.A. wins settlement from Rite Aid

UCSD, Cal State system reps visiting Israel

3 Israeli teens murdered; Jewish world reacts

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