NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Israeli-American Council (IAC), the largest Israeli-American organization in the United States, announced the opening of its newest Regional Office in New York City this week to serve the New York Metropolitan area Israeli-American community. Some 200,000 Israeli-Americans are estimated to live in the area, mostly in or around New
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Middle East, USA
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the fallout from the recording of racist comments by the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, Jewish organizations both local and national have moved quickly to take the focus off his ethnicity and remind the country of the Jewish involvement in the civil
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Sports & Competitions, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– In celebration of National Pet Month, EL AL Israel Airlines welcomes furry and feathered passengers including dogs, cats and exotic birds with a dedicated EL AL “Mile Paw” Pet Frequent Flyer Club. As the first airline to ever develop a loyalty club for pets in 2001, the EL AL Pet Frequent Flyer
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Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –This season’s final evening of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices, May 6th, in the Astor Judaica Library, JCC, featured three outstanding poets from the San Diego County Jewish Community. Lee Ben-Yehuda read from her book, The Dreaming (2013). A former elementary teacher, she is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes it is braggadocio. Sometimes it is the last rhetorical shot before making a political change previously thought impossible. But sometimes, just sometimes, it is truth as the teller sees it. Hamas released a video for Israel’s 66th anniversary, entitled “No Hope,” (a play on Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva,
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–Following is the text of the speech given by President Barack Obama on Wednesday evening, May 7, to a USC Shoah Foundation dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much. Please, please, everybody have a seat. Well, thank you, Steven {Spielberg}, for
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Jewish History, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, addressed the Security Council in New York on Wednesday, May 7, during a special debate on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The debate took place one decade after the UN Security Council passed resolution 1540 to enforce measures against
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will on 19 May 2014 at Tel Aviv University award the Prime Minister’s Prize for Initiatives and Innovation for the fourth time. The Prize was founded by the Prime Minister to award to initiatives and innovation that make a special contribution to society and are of far-reaching socio-economic
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — President Shimon Peres held a diplomatic working meeting on Wednesday, May, with US National Security Advisor Susan Rice at the President’s Residence. They discussed the major issues on the agenda today including the diplomatic situation between Israel and the Palestinians, the Iranian negotiations and the strategic relations between Israel and the
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Nine women have completed the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s exams to become kashrut inspectors, the newspaper ‘Haaretz‘ reports. The country’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau approved the move over the objections of some council members. Emunah, the Orthodox women’s movement, battled to end the ban on women, and called the move “an achievement of historic significance.” The rabbinate said
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
BERN, Switzerland (WJC) — The German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who passed away on Tuesday aged 81, made the Museum of Art in the Swiss capital Bern his sole heir. The museum made the announcement on Wednesday, saying it was surprised to be chosen since it did not have a relationship with Gurlitt. “The Board of Trustees and
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International, Jewish HistoryVATICAN 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