My unpleasant evening with ‘Breaking the Silence’

By Hen Mazzig/JNS.org On March 31, I attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. BtS is known

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

TICO presented music of Hungary; America next

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, (TICO), now celebrating its 40th year, has begun this milestone season by programming two outstanding concerts. The first, in mid-November, The Glory of Hungarian Music, included Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, #5 and #6, Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #3, Berlioz’ Rakotzy March and Dohnanyi’s Variations

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Travel and Food

‘Noah’ departs in many ways from biblical narrative

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past week, I watched the new movie Noah with considerable interest. The newest book of my Genesis commentary deals largely with the story of Noah and the moral questions raised by the Noah narrative. Naturally, whether a person writes a script or a commentary on a biblical story,

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AJC reflects on the lessons of Rwanda’s genocide

NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC remembers with profound sorrow the more than 800,000 victims of the Rwanda genocide 20 years ago. The UN General Assembly designated April 7th as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. “This unimaginable slaughter ended the illusion that after the Holocaust genocide would not happen again,” said

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International

Council of Presidents: Keep Abouletabi out of U.S

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations denounced the appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new Ambassador to the United Nations. He is widely known to have been involved in the siege of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979

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Middle East, USA

ZOA chief: Christie’s stance on Israel is suspect

By Morton A. Klein   NEW YORK, — Last week, potential presidential   candidate, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, spoke to hundreds of  Jews at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Palazzo hotel. Christie didn’t mention Israel in his prepared   remarks but during the Q &A, he inaccurately referred to Judea and Samaria as

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Middle East, USA

Australian plan to modify hate speech law protested

CANBERRA, Australia (WJC) — Australia’s Jewish community has rejected plans by Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government to loosen laws punishing hate speech and racial discrimination. Under the federal government’s proposed changes, the new Racial Discrimination Act will no longer make it illegal to “offend, insult or humiliate” an Australian because of their race or ethnicity.

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