By Roman Mokrinsky JERUSALEM (TNA) – There are some 5,600 lone soldiers currently serving in the IDF, 60% of them are new immigrants. Being a lone soldier is not an easy task. Faced with the challenges every solider contends with, lone soldiers have no family for support, no home for refuge when on furlough and […]
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Middle EastMADRID (WJC)–Jewish associations in Spain have filed an official complaint after nearly 18,000 anti-Semitic messages were posted on Facebook and Twitter in response to Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv’s victory over Real Madrid last weekend. Twelve Jewish groups in the autonomous region of Catalonia lodged the legal complaint over the messages, which flooded onto
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International, Sports & CompetitionsIsraeli transportation minister proposes expansion of Jerusalem’s borders (JNS.org) Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) announced Thursday that he intends to promote a bill that would expand the borders of Jerusalem. “This week (May 28), we will celebrate Jerusalem Day, marking 47 years since the city was reunified,” Katz said, according to Israel Hayom. “This
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InternationalBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) presented pioneering Holocaust historian and professor Saul Friedlander with a prestigious honorary doctoral degree at the 44th Annual Board of Governors Meeting in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Additionally, the university conferred honors on three other California residents: Cheryl Saban, Nahum Guzik, and James M. Breslauer. Saul Friedlander
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) welcomes the UCLA Judicial Board decision that Lauren Rogers did no wrong by participating in an AJC Project Interchange educational seminar in Israel. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had brought the action against the UCLA junior after the Student Council on which she served rejected a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s ministerial committee on China affairs chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Tuesday night, May 20, at the Prime Minister’s Office and approved a comprehensive action plan for advancing and expanding bilateral economic ties in order to double – within five years – Israeli exports to China, to approximately $
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International, Middle East
WASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release) — Representatives Jared Polis of Colorado, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, and Suzan DelBene of Washington have issued the following statements on the Bureau of Reclamation’s newly released policy on water usage in states where marijuana is legally regulated: “Today’s backward-looking decision by the Bureau of Reclamation will hinder the growth and success
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USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D-California) on Wednesday, May 21, joined more than a dozen members of Congress in a Capitol Hill rally to raise awareness to Congressional inaction on climate change. The event, coordinated through the House of Representatives’ Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), was labelled the “Time to Wake Up
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The World We ShareWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) pressured Comcast to clarify whether it will continue to honor net neutrality rules in the future. Franken, who’s been working hard to preserve the open Internet and keep the consolidation of media in check, is concerned that the Comcast-Time Warner Cable (TWC) deal would pose
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Local Jewish veterans of the Soviet Red Army, representatives of the Israeli government, and Jewish community dignitaries convened at the United Nations on Wednesday, May 21, to usher in a new Jewish holiday celebrating the rescue of European Jewry in 1945. Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor; Deputy Minister of Internal
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International, Jewish History
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — The Women’s Affairs Advisor to the IDF Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Rachel Tevet-Wiesel, participated this week in the annual conference of NATO’s Committee on Gender Perspectives, which took place at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Representatives from some 30 countries attended the conference to discuss the integration of women in military services
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International, Middle East
CHISINAU, Moldova (Press Release)– Nearly 400 mainly young Jews from Moldova and the southern Ukraine will gather in the city of Chisinau, May 23-25, for Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) Moldova. Limmud FSU is a festival of Jewish learning featuring a packed program of lectures, workshops, round-table discussions, music and cultural events. More than 22,000
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationJERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) released a report on Wednesday, May 21, on the views of world Jewry concerning Israel’s character as a Jewish and democratic state. Following Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s appointment of Professor Ruth Gavison to explore the constitutional anchoring of Israel’s Jewish and democratic character, Prof. Gavison
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International, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO — In the upcoming June 3 elections, there are three members of our Jewish community who are running for important offices in our court system and although they differ widely in political philosophy, we know all of them to be committed to the concept of tikkun olam – repair of the world –
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Donald H. Harrison