By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s not every day I get mail from a rabbi, but every once in a while it happens and I love it. It just so happens today I got mail from both a rabbi in Britain and a psychiatrist in Milwaukee whose son is a rabbi. I think […]
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The World We ShareWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told the AJC Global Forum that his nation favors a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,“ but “there can be no constructive discussion with anyone wedded to Israel’s destruction. There can be no bargaining over Israel’s existence.” Addressing the Global Forum closing plenary session, Baird
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East
By Anav Silverman MA’ALE REHAVAM, Israel — Moriya Kaniel and her three children were among three Israeli families who were ordered to evacuate their homes in Ma’ale Rehavam because of a court-ordered home demolition operation carried out by Israeli security forces on Wednesday, May 15. Eight buildings including the homes of three Israeli families were
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Middle EastBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — By this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students to “read and discuss multiple,
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Shocked at UCLA’s recent refusal to protect Jewish students, AMCHA Initiative represented seven organizations at Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting, demanding the Regents, President Janet Napolitano and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block intervene against0000000000000000 the bullying and intimidation tactics of UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). A letter from AMCHA Initiative, the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Lawyers have sent a letter to Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, requesting that the UN review and reconsider any acceptance by the UN of the Palestinian requests for accession to international conventions, pending fulfillment of the legal and moral requirements set out in international law and practice. On
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International, Middle East
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — An agreement has been reached between the US and Iraqi governments under which the Iraqi Jewish Archive (IJA)will remain in the United States for an unspecified period. The archive contains around 2,700 restored Jewish books and thousands of documents. The US spent more than US$ 3 million to restore the texts.
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Jewish History, Middle East, USAIsrael seeking recognition of Yom Kippur as U.N. holiday (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar. The U.N. officially recognizes 10 holidays, including Christmas and Eid al-Fitr. Absent from the official holidays is a Jewish one. A holiday at
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics being what it is, not every day is a time for celebration. Not even in the Promised Land. A lower court has concluded its work on the files of Ehud Olmert and several of his cohorts in one cluster of the charges pending against the former Prime Minister. There
By Zev Hurwitz LA JOLLA, California — The May 14 meeting of the Associated Students at UCSD —the governing student body —unanimously passed a resolution in support of a joint project brought forward by the Union of Jewish Students and the Muslim Student Association to establish kosher and halal dining facilities on campus. Over the past
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As San Diego County reeled under the impact of nine separate wild fires that burned more than 9,100 acres on Wednesday, May 14, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis issued strong warnings against looting, price gauging, and scamming by anyone who would “revictimize those who have been victimized already.” Noting
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego REPertory Theatre (San Diego REP) hosts the 21st annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival from May 20 to June 18. Headlining the festival is a special one night only performance of selections from the upcoming world premiere Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin. Along with a full slate
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Gary Weitzman, president and CEO of the San Diego Humane Society and SCPA, joined Sally Costello, executive director of the Escondido Humane Society, on Wednesday, May 14, to announce their two organizations have agreed to merge “with a goal of saving the most vulnerable animals in our community.” They said their “community
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San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release) – Local Jewish veterans of the Soviet Red Army, representatives of the Israeli government, and Jewish community dignitaries will convene at the United Nations 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 Affairs Faina
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International, USA