VATICAN CITY (WJC) — A rabbi and a sheikh from his native Argentina will be accompanying Pope Francis on his pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories later this month. Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud, who are friends of Francis from his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires, will both join the papal delegation on 24-26
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International, Middle EastObama receives humanity award from Spielberg’s Holocaust history foundation (JNS.org) Famed filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust history foundation, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, on Wednesday presented President Barack Obama with the Ambassador for Humanity Award at a gala event in Los Angeles. Obama, citing the Syrian civil war and kidnappings
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InternationalISTANBUL, Turkey (eturbonews) — According to a May report released by the Mediterranean Touristic Hoteliers and Proprietors Association, the number of the visitors coming to Antalya in the first quarter of the year was 1.32 million, an increase of 5.1 percent compared with the same period of the previous year. Antalya hosted 1.25 million tourists
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Middle East, Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday, May 7, in Jerusalem with prominent Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters from the United States and Panama. During the meeting with the FIDF Delegation, Netanyahu addressed the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Palestinian issue. “Iran seeks to destroy the State
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Jacqueline Semha Gmach (with Hillary Selese Liber), From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds, Gefen Publishing House © 2014, ISBN 978-965-229-641-2, 288 pages including glossary and epilogue. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is a difficult, shockingly honest book, by the woman who helped to engineer, and who perhaps even personifies, San
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), a veteran member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered a statement during the markup Wednesday, May 7, of the USA Freedom Act. “Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States government has aggressively expanded surveillance in and outside the United States at a high cost to individual
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – On the second anniversary of the Russian Government’s crackdown on Bolotnaya Square protests in Moscow, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, met at the U.S. Capitol with Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria [Masha] Alyokhina of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. The
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International, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW)–Congressman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) is seeking a full time staff assistant in her district office in San Diego. According to a notice se nt out by her office, “Job responsibilities include fielding constituent calls, processing mail, coordinating the internship program, assisting with casework and constituent requests for information, maintaining a photographic
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Travel and FoodSACRAMENTO (Press Release) — A Constitutional Amendment that would allow each house of the Legislature to withhold pay and benefits of a lawmaker who is suspended has cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday, May 6, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments. SCA 17 by Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite an addiction to taking pictures everywhere they go, cellphone junkies have not been able to ditch their stand-alone cameras quite yet. Smartphones still don’t possess the sharp zoom capabilities of digital still cameras, so the resulting pictures can be messy and out-of-focus. That won’t be the case for long, however.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In the blame game that follows the suspension or failure of the Kerry peace process, one often hears of Israel’s satisfaction with, and commitment to the status quo. No doubt many Israelis really do not want to accept the development of a Palestinian state, even though public opinion polls show
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NEW YORK (WJC)–A former New York City police officer has been arrested on charges that he spray-painted anti-Semitic profanities on cars and buildings in a mostly Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, including the front doors of a religious elementary school. Michael Setiawan was picked up before dawn on Sunday after police received a 911 call
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USA
BUDAPEST, Hungary (WJC)– Hungary’s parliament elected a former skinhead as its deputy speaker in the first session since the national election last month which saw the neo-Nazi Jobbik party make significant gains. Tamas Sneider, 41, a member of Jobbik and leader of a skinhead group in northern Hungary in the early 1990s, was approved as
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InternationalOECD: Israeli life expectancy among world’s highest (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Life expectancy in Israel ranks eighth among the world’s 36 most developed countries, according to a new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report released Tuesday. The report said the average life expectancy in Israel is 82, two years higher than the OECD
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