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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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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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 FoodBy 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 EastWASHINGTON, 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, USAAMMAN, 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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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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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, & EducationSAN 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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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, & EducationDeveloping 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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By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org JERUSALEM (JNS) — Omelet sandwich: 5 shekels. Iced coffee: 5 shekels. Tuna sandwich: 5 shekels. Fresh-squeezed orange juice: 5 shekels. Cheese bureka: 5 shekels. There’s plenty more on the Cofizz menu, but you get the idea. Dani Mizrahi and Amir Amshalm, two Israeli men in their early 30s, asked themselves: Why not launch
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Middle East85,000 attend Tel Aviv rally for kidnapped Israeli teens (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Some 85,000 people flocked to Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Sunday evening, uniting in prayer and hope for the safe return of abducted Israeli teens Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel. Radio and TV personality Avri Gilad, who hosted the rally,
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