ADL rues court’s college admission decision

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision on Tuesday, April 22, in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, has the effect of preventing public colleges and universities in Michigan from considering race as one non-determinative factor in a holistic review of applicants.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

AJC: Hamas- P.L.O pact is ‘game-changer’

NEW YORK (Press Release)- AJC Executive Director David Harris called the announcement of a Palestinian unity government “a game-changer that sabotages Secretary of State John Kerry’s valiant efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian two-state accord.” The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas sealed their latest effort at reconciliation in a pact to form a single, unified

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Middle East

JNS news briefs: April 24, 2014

Palestinian unity pact followed by rocket fire at Israel (JNS.org) Following the signing of a unity agreement between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party and the Gaza-based terror group Hamas on Wednesday, five Qassam rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israel, with four failing to reach Israeli territory and the fifth exploding near the

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International

OpEd: SDSU students reject a BDS resolution

By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO —  After much finagling, the Student for Justice in Palestine had managed on Wednesday, April 23, to bring in front of the Associated Student (AS) Council an anti-Israel resolution targeting the usual US companies “supporting Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, and … bla-bla-bla.” One can admire the anti-Israel groups for

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

UCSD team wins ‘Jeopardy’ competition at Grossmont

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – With a steady drumbeat on the buzzer and an apparent photographic memory for every little fact in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, James Dohleman led his UCSD team to a runaway victory in a three-way contest against Pt. Loma Nazarene

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

P.A. – Hamas pact disappoints U.S. — Psaki

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– The United States government was “disappointed” in the announcement of a reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday, April 23. The official said the United States position remains that “any Palestinian government must unambiguosly and explicity commit to nonviolence, recognition of the state of

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Middle East, USA

Israelis celebrate Pesach on Tanzania safari

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Press Release) —  One hundred and seventy tourists  from Israel spent the Passover holidays on a wildlife Safari, their roundtrip air fare on an El Al charter.   The nine-day program included visits to the world famous UNESCO World Heritage sites, Serengeti National Park, home of the great animal migration, and the Ngorongoro Crater, largest intact

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International, Travel and Food

Measure to make initiatives more transparent advances

  SACRAMENTO (Press Release)–A bill that would bring greater transparency to California’s century-old ballot initiative system was approved on Tuesday, April 22, by lawmakers on the State Senate’s Elections Committee. The Ballot Initiative Transparency Act, SB1253, authored by Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D – Sacramento) was approved on a 4-to-1 vote and moves

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USA

Narratives recapture the chaos, pride of Six Day War

  The Lion’s Gate; On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield; Sentinel/ Penguin, (c) 2014. ISBN 978-1-59523-091-1, 430 pages including index and bibliography, $29.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘The Lion’s Gate’ is a fascinating attempt to present the events before and during the Six Day War of June 1967,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East

APN welcomes Hamas-PLO pact

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) –  The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Hamas on Wednesday, April 23,  ended a seven-year rift by reaching a historic reconciliation agreement. Americans for Peace Now welcomes the agreement. APN holds that unity between the Palestinian political factions and between the West Bank and Gaza is vital for empowering the Palestinian leadership

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Middle East, USA