NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC condemned the firebombing attack on a synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev. The early Saturday morning attack on the empty synagogue comes days after a virulent anti-Semitic leaflet, whose origin remains in question, was distributed in Donetsk. Both anti-Semitic incidents were condemned by Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who […]
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International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Two members of the Jewish community are seeking election as California Superior Court judges in the June 3 election. Carla Keehn, a federal prosecutor, is opposing Judge Lisa Schall for Office No. 20, while Brad A. Weinreb, a California deputy attorney general, is seeking to prevail in a three-candidate race
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyAbbas reportedly threatens to dismantle Palestinian Authority (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly threatened to dismantle the PA, a move that would potentially dissolve the 1993 Oslo Accords and leave Israel—according to international law—vulnerable to legal action over its construction activities in Judea and Samaria. Abbas told Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper,
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InternationalBy John Kerry WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, I traveled to Rome with President Obama, where I was honored to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. As an altar boy six decades ago, I never imagined that I would find myself crossing the threshold of the Vatican to see the Bishop of Rome. My wife, Teresa,
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The World We Share
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM– For the first time since the beginning of the Passover holiday, the Temple Mount was opened briefly to Jewish visitors and tourists on Sunday, April 20. The site had been closed last week on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday because of violent Palestinian rioting. On Saturday night, April 19, five Arabs carrying tear
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Middle East
BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has signed an $8.5 million agreement with the Israel National Cyber Bureau to develop CyberSpark, which includes a National Cyber Research Center adjacent to BGU’s campus. CyberSpark was conceived as an innovative research and development ecosystem of major multinational corporations, business incubators, BGU researchers, Israel Defense Force
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Interfaith humor is not so much ribald as it is refreshing and inclusive, inviting people of different faiths to smile or chuckle in a friendly way across the aisles that often separate them. President Obama kept it short and sweet recently in speaking to Christian faith leaders at
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Carl Sagan fans old and new have been gazing at their televisions in awe as host Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson’s resurrection of the science epic “Cosmos” takes them on a journey from the Big Bang, to microscopic one-celled organisms, to the ascent of man, to beyond the stars and planets. The
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D..C. — “We didn’t know you couldn’t organize a mass rally in four days, and sometimes if you don’t know, then you just plunge ahead—and you do it.” So says Glenn Richter, one of the organizers of the rally in New York City, 50 years ago on May 1, which
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International, Jewish History, USA
By Moran Stern/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — As both Haredi political parties in Israel—United Torah Judaism and Shas—are currently in the opposition, the Jewish Home party is the only representative of religion in the governing coalition. To address its multifaceted objectives, the party engages in several fronts that often come into conflict with one another.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israeli politics is straining under the pressure of the US, and those led by the US to keep conversations with the Palestinians going, and the counter pressure from coalition members who are tired of the charade, and resist paying the price of prisoner releases. The potential for this conflict has
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California –Wendover, Berkshire, seems a patch of Heaven for Jane Stirling (Rosina Reynolds), a widow in her early sixties, where gardening gratifies her soul, and an upcoming facelift to the cozy house will give it the desired breath of new life. Stirling has lived in the home her entire life
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Travel and FoodBy Ben Cohen/JNS.org When you look at the image of Frazier Glenn Cross, AKA Glenn Miller, the accused shooter alleged to have cold-bloodedly murdered three Christians in an eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish community buildings in Overland Park, Kan., what do you see? I’ll tell you what I see. The dead-eyed stare, the pasty, blotched skin and
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USA
By Alex Traiman/JNS.org Millions of Christians will celebrate this Easter Sunday under threat throughout the Middle East. In recent years, Christians living in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Iraq have suffered extreme persecution, with churches destroyed in violent acts of terror (sometimes during prayer services) and hundreds of thousands killed. Many other Christians have
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Middle East