By Debra Rubin/JNS.org Rachel Ament noticed that she and her friends often shared humorous anecdotes that were typically variations on a theme: overprotective, worrying Jewish moms who smothered them with love. That includes Ament’s own mother. “My mom is probably every Jewish stereotype scrunched into one,” the Washington, DC, resident tells JNS.org. “At the root […]
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Travel and FoodImmigration to Israel jumps 14% in first three months of 2014 (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The first three months of 2014 saw a 14-percent increase in the number of new immigrants to Israel compared to the same period of 2013, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported. According to CBS data, 3,623 new immigrants arrived
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International
By David Bedein JERUSALEM (IRNA) — Martin Indyk, is now the mediator between Israel and the PLO in negotiations that have continued in deadlock for the past six months Indyk’s record with the PLO should be examined. Indyk is the one of the people paved the way for Yassir Arafat and the PLO armed control over
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Middle East
HURGHADA, Egypt (ETN) –As the Egyptian government announced plans to use coal as an important source of energy, the Red Sea Tourism Investment Association based here rejected the plans to import coal, especially from South Africa, as it said that this would mean using Red Sea ports and could be a direct threat to Egypt’s tourism industry.
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Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Though much suggests that both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority prefer to blame the other than pay the price for peace, and notwithstanding US Secretary of State Kerry’s frustration – seemingly even more with Israel than with the Palestinians – talks are still going on. Whether
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Middle EastBy Marnie Winston-MacCauley LAS VEGAS, Nevada — We Jews have a great sense of humor and an exhaustive one. We can be outright hilarious, sarcastic, ironic, edgy, surprising. Virtually nothing is off limits! One type of humor is “Funny-Silly-Gotcha!” I’ve collected some “Gotcha!” Jewish humor that I hope will put a smile on your face.
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most important feminists fighting for women’s rights in the Islamic world is a woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This remarkable woman was born in Somalia where she was raised as a Muslim. She spent her youth and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Yishai and Ilana are students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, but they weren’t visiting San Diego County in that capacity earlier this week. They came as two former active-duty 1st lieutenants of the Israel Defense Forces, and, as such, could be identified only by their first
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –Returning from a four-week jaunt across the USA in which we visited six cities and met countless relatives and friends – both old and new – it took no time at all to get used to the pace of life in Israel. That may be due in part to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –That an Iranian scholar, Abbas Milani of Stanford University, should get it wrong about Israel in a piece in the New York Times of April 11 is understandable. But that his co-author, Israel Weismel-Manor of Haifa University and currently a visiting professor at Stanford should so misrepresent Israel suggests malice,
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Middle East
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylviania (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) congratulates the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) chapter for rejecting the national American Studies Association boycott against Israeli academics passed by the organization’s membership in December. EASA is one of the ASA’s 13 regional chapters. The Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) has joined its
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics is the civilized way of dealing with disputes. Campaigns, voting, and the routine displacement of the losers by the winners is the way of enlightened government. Making policy and managing programs are more complicated than election campaigns. They require professional expertise in the myriad of fields that government touches.
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