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San Diego CountyOpEd: Don’t repeat pre-WWII mistakes with Russians
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — In my early years I was a confirmed pacifist. At Cornell University in the 30s I proudly wore a 2% button. Exactly what the 2% represented has been lost in the folds of memories I recall that the Oxford University Union adopted a resolution about 2% of
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InternationalDay school Israel education feeds sense of connection
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Sixty-five years after its establishment, Israel remains a central feature of Jewish educational programming in North America, perhaps nowhere more ubiquitously than in Jewish day schools. The AVI CHAI Foundation’s newly released report, “Hearts and Minds: Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools,” takes the measure of what day schools seek to
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAToxins taken during pregnancy can turn baby’s genes off
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with morning sickness were often prescribed the new drug thalidomide. Shortly after the medicine was released on the market, a reported 10,000 infants were born with an extreme form of the rare congenital phocomelia syndrome, which caused death in 50 percent of cases and
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael’s enemies deny, lie about, or exploit the Shoah
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. -For Palestinians, suffering — and sympathy for suffering — is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the territories. Even among Palestinian groups, while thousands suffer and die in Syria — most heinously starved in the Yarmouk refugee camp — Israelis joined relief
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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana BryenIsrael boasts a beautiful park carved from trash
By Steve Kramer TEL AVIV — Did you know that metropolitan Tel Aviv has a park that is bigger than New York’s Central Park? Or, that the park’s most unique feature is a mountain of trash? That’s what you’ll find at recently opened Ariel Sharon Park, almost 2,000 acres of reclaimed land, located in Israel’s
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, The World We Share, Travel and FoodIDF, Israeli Police salute their fallen
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Israel will mark Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism, on this coming Monday, May 5, a day prior to Israel’s Independence Day celebrations. The IDF has already commenced with its Yom Hazikaron ceremonies, holding yesterday (Apr. 30)
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Middle EastJNS news briefs: May 1, 2014
Israel, U.S., Canada to hold joint aerial anti-terror drill (JNS.org) Israel, the United States, and Canada will hold a joint aerial exercise this summer to improve coordination in preventing terror attacks on civilian aircrafts, Israel Hayom reported. The exercise will be the first of its kind. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said the drill would
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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 7, 1958, Part 1
Attention Family Historians: If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5 payment
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Adventures in SD HistoryCantor: White House focused on Benghazi emails, not on bringing murderers of 4 Americans to justice
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) on Wednesday, April 30, released the following statement: “For nearly two years, Congress and the American people have sought answers to important questions surrounding the attack on our mission in Benghazi. For nearly two years the White House has sought to avoid answering those questions. Now we
Conference vote on J Street was 22-17-3 to reject
By Alina Dain Sharon and Sean Savage/JNS.org NEW YORK– In what many observers will see as the de facto expression of mainstream U.S. Jewry’s outlook on J Street, the membership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday voted 22-17 (with three abstentions) to reject the membership application of the self-labeled
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAJ Street rejected as Conference of Presidents member; failed to reach two- thirds vote
NEW YORK (Press Release)–After a lengthy and thorough process, the full membership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations convened to consider the application for membership submitted by J Street. The process included three meetings of the Membership Committee, including one at which representatives of J Street made a presentation and answered
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Jewish Religion, USAEngel: Restructure U.S. overseas information program
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Wednesday, April 30, made the following remarks regarding H.R. 4490, the United States International Communications Reform Act: “Unfortunately, our efforts to disseminate objective news to societies that lack a free media are not as effective as they
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