By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn PHILADELPHIA –As debate rages over a new documentary about the “honor killings” of women by Islamic extremists around the world, former president Jimmy Carter has weighed in — and not on the side of oppressed women. The film, Honor Diaries, is being denounced by Islamist activists such as the
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — A 3,300 year old coffin was exposed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) containing the personal belongings of a wealthy Canaanite, possibly an official of the Egyptian Army. Among the items discovered is a gold signet ring bearing the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I. The rare artifacts
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
LONDON (WJC)– In a keynote speech in London, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder has called on Jewish community and organizational leaders to step up the battle against the anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement, saying that this was perhaps the most important thing they would ever do. Such work “is not
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InternationalRISHON LEZION, Israel (Press Release) — The opening of a weibo micro-blogging account by President of Israel Shimon Peres highlights the emergence of the new media and the importance of public opinion in China’s dynamic information environment. The commercialization of the media in China and the rise of the Internet created an information-hungry, technology-savvy public that
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International, Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Under the title “Why does the Chinese Government abuse many of his citizens?” Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of Israel’s leading rabbis, attacked on his website the Chinese Government for its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Rabbi Aviner writes that he believes that even though this persecution is carried
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International, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A Chinese ship detected pings while combing the Indian Ocean for the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. While some observers believe this will lead to finding the wreckage of the plane, others think that the Chinese also detected an alternating series of pongs emanating from the ship’s game room.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireInternational Monetary Fund: Israel’s economy will grow 3.5% in 2015 (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli economy will grow by 3.5 percent in 2015, up from 3.2 percent in 2014 and 3.4 percent in 2013, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook mid-year report. The IMF’s outlook is more optimistic than that
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International
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “There’s a great devil in the universe and we call it Time.” It was a very different world in 1919. The war had ended and surviving soldiers were coming home. Things finally seemed to be looking up. Back then, a single woman’s primary objective was finding a good
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Eric S. Levine, former executive director of Congregation Beth El, faces will be sentenced June 27 for mail fraud following a guilty plea entered Monday, April 7, in San Diego federal court. He was charged with misappropriating over $390,000 from the Conservative congregation in La Jolla by falsifying in the synagogue’s
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– April 8, Equal Pay Day, marks the extra days into the new year a woman would have to work to earn as much as a man. Congresswoman Susan Davis has been working to close the wage gap that still exists between women and men, while President Obama took executive action to
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USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Don Schlesinger has joined the staff of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County as Senior Director of Community Partnerships. He will lead Federation’s Israel and overseas initiatives, NextGen young adult outreach, Jewish camping, the community chaplaincy programs and the Jewish Community Relations Council. He will work closely with the CEO,
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San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – It was, to his chemistry professor’s surprise, more than just a science project that Jeremy D. Nemetz turned in as classwork. It was a true discovery showing that the higher the gravity, the slower chemicals will react with one another. “Jeremy did an amazingly simple experiment. I
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Donald H. Harrison
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO (TOSD) — “Blackfish” may have moved viewers and supporters of banning orca shows at SeaWorld of San Diego, but it had no clout Tuesday in Sacramento. Assembly Bill 2140, which would have put limits on Shamu displays and halted the San Diego park’s captive breeding program, was tabled by the Assembly
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Ken Stone, The World We Share, Travel and Food
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org PARIS — Against the backdrop of studies revealing rising anti-Semitism both in France and across all of Europe, as well as one particularly brutal attack in Paris last month, French Jews are flocking to Israel. On March 30, the Jewish Agency for Israel released figures showing that aliyah from France increased dramatically
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International, Middle East