By Jonathan Spyer HERZLIYA, Israel –A number of events in recent weeks cast light on the current intersecting lines of conflict in the Middle East. They reflect a region in flux, in which new bonds are being formed, and old ones torn asunder. But amid the confusion, a new topography is emerging. This was the […]
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –In an article published in April 2009, I wrote the following [with added comments]: “Iran couldn’t be more blatant in calling for Israel’s destruction. This it proclaims loud and clear, from many venues, including New York City, home of the United Nations. That Iran also wishes to destroy America
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
CHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release) — The Central Conference of American Rabbis will honor Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., at the Crown Family Symposium on Rabbinic Leadership on Monday, March 31, 2014, as part of the 125th annual CCAR Convention, in Chicago. The CCAR is the representative organization of nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis, the world’s largest group
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Jewish Religion, USA
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Three decades before The Temptations erupted out of Motown to wow America with their smooth harmony and their graceful, synchronized dance moves, there were the Comedian Harmonists—six men in Berlin who in the late 1920s and ’30s became the toast of Europe. They had beautiful voices and carefully synchronized
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC announces the publication of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany. Authored by Charlotte Bonelli, director of AJC Archives, and published by Yale University Press, Exit Berlin offers unique insights into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the perspective of one young German Jewish woman.
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Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release)-– Democratic Reps. Susan Davis and Scott Peters, along with members of San Diego’s medical research community joined together on Monday, March 17, to call on Congress to increase federal funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds critical medical research. Budget cuts threaten this research and San Diego’s economy.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–During the past three weeks, four outstanding young Israel-born artists performed in La Jolla. Three of the young men call themselves Israelis and had their early training in the music schools of Israel. The fourth, an Arab, born in Nazereth, calls himself Palestinian, and received his early training with private teachers
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Press Release)– Trinity College professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar are embarking on an online national survey of Jewish university and college students. This large-scale study is a follow-up to their 2013 online national survey of the worldviews and opinions of all American college students. The focus on college students differentiates the Trinity
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org With another season of “America’s pastime” beginning March 22, famed Jewish executive Marvin Miller remains out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Why is that the case? Bob Locker—a major league pitcher from 1965-75 and creator of a Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com—blames ownership for the exclusion of Miller, the
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Sports & Competitions
By Ben Cohen/JNS.org It’s getting harder these days to survey the latest developments in the Middle East without feeling anxiety about the negative impact they will have on our own policy debate. I see a pattern—some may call it “Obama’s Law,” though I hesitate to do so—whereby the worse things get for Israel in a
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Middle East, USASurvey: Israelis see business booming in Negev (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) More than 75 percent of Israelis believe that there have been positive changes for the Negev Desert region in terms of development, construction, and transportation in recent years, a new survey shows. According to the survey, 67 percent of respondents said homes in the
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International
LONDON (WJC) — US actress Scarlett Johansson has defended her decision to appear in advertisements for the Israeli company SodaStream, which operates a factory in the West Bank. Johansson, who stepped down as an ambassador of the charity Oxfam after the charity had criticized her choice to feature in the ads, said in an interview with
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Middle East
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Cyber attacks are the primary domestic security threat facing the United States, FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Homeland Security Committee last year. Traditional warfare is now inextricably linked to economic and cyber warfare. In just one example, cyber strikes have the potential to derail a nation’s power grid,
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Science, Medicine, & Education