Anti- Semitic incidents fewer but often more violent

NEW YORK (Press Release)-The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19 percent in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking one of the lowest levels of incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League since it started keeping records in 1979. ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released today, reported a […]

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Jewish Religion, USA

Jewish-interest license plate – ‘Eritz’

SAN DIEGO –When words are transliterated from one alphabet to another, a variety of spellings occur — for example “Chanukah” and “Hannukah.” While the most common translation for the Hebrew word for “the land” is “eretz,” this spelling too works.  And so our Jewish license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets one more notch on her

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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Bipartisan bill would fund Israel energy research

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), along with Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York), Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York), and Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), led a bipartisan group of 84 House members in a request  to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development for $2 million for the U.S.–Israel Energy Cooperation Program in the

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Middle East, USA

ADL: Pollard release should be on its own merit

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The early release of Jonathan Pollard should be based on humanitarian grounds and on the strong bilateral relationship between the United States and Israel, and not intertwined with any potential resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: “Jonathan

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Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: April 1, 2014

Reports: Jonathan Pollard could go free in deal to extend Israeli-Palestinian talks (JNS.org) Imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard could go free as part of a deal that would extend the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations into 2015 and extract various concessions from the Jewish state, Israeli media reported with varying degrees of certainty. Yedioth Ahronoth, citing

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International

Rabbis weigh immigration, health care

CHICAGO (Press Release)–North America’s Reform rabbis took on the sometimes-ignored human costs of two of today’s pressing social issues: immigration policy and healthcare inequality. The rabbis addressed the topics in two sessions — “Undocumented and Unafraid: Standing Strong as an Immigration Ally,” and “The Death Gap: Inequality in America and the Unfinished Business of Health

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Jewish Religion, USA