NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC praised the Japanese government’s response to the vandalism of hundreds of copies of Anne Frank’s diary in Tokyo public libraries. For decades, the Holocaust-era book has been extremely popular and widely read in Japan. “This is a shameful act and I am confident that the police authority is making […]
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By Yissachar Ruas OFF ISRAEL’S COASTLINE — Israel’s Navy is the IDF’s smallest branch and the least known. Israel’s navy actually predates the establishment of the State, existing as the Mossad LeAliya Bet, the Haganah’s illegal immigration organization, running ships through the British blockade in an attempt to rescue Jews from Europe and smuggle them
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Middle East
By Rabbi Tzvi Graetz JERUSALEM–As the news from Kiev, Ukraine worsens and grows more violent, we have spoken with our Masorti/Conservative Rabbi Reuven Stamov and his wife Lena who are in Israel for a short visit. Their two young daughters are still in Ukraine but are staying with their grandmother outside of the city. As
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian public intellectual, activist and president of Al Quds University, paraphrases in his memoir, Once Upon a Country (p. 446), what he wrote in 2001: The average Israeli sought security and a Jewish state, and the average Palestinian sought freedom from occupation. There was an astoundingly simple
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Jews are nervous. That is a chronic condition, now heightened by talk of boycott, helped along by the likes of John Kerry and Thomas Friedman. Shimon Peres is joining those who say the conditions.are ripe for Israel to.make peace with the Palestinians, and it better succeed or else. On the ground however,where
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– A Jewish community forum at Congregation Beth Israel heard several ideas on Friday, Feb. 21, for improving the lives of present and future senior citizens. All the suggestions required legislation at either the federal or state level. The meeting was an outgrowth of ongoing consultations among local Jewish agencies
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –Playwright/director/actor Tom Dugan is in the process of writing his sixth one-man show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln. “I’m not playing Mary,” he says, “but I could.” Instead, Dugan is busy preparing his successful show Nazi Hunter-Simon Wiesenthal, which ran at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 last year,for a run at
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Feb. 21, expressed concern that hundreds of copies of literature written by and about Anne Frank, the most internationally known Holocaust victim, were vandalized in public libraries across Tokyo. More than 200 copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and other books related to her life
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International
By Steven Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Those familiar with my articles have become accustomed to reading relatively detailed descriptions of our short visits all over Israel. What if you are planning a 10-day trip to Israel, with so much to see? It’s hard to work out and choose an itinerary. Linda, my wife Michal’s sister,
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Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (WJC) – A delegation of 43 Argentinean Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and politicians has arrived in the Middle East for a goodwill tour to the region to promote peace and mutual understanding. The group met on Thursday, Feb. 20, with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah, who expressed his belief that peace
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Middle EastObama urges Erdogan to renew diplomatic ties with Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on the phone with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday and discussed with him the “importance of quickly concluding the normalization agreement with Israel.” According to a statement issued by the White House, the two
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InternationalBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week’s D’var Torah was suggested by Norm Katz, Financial V.P. and regular Torah Reader at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Norm will be reading Torah this Shabbat and leading our Torah Discussion Group with Bob Sherman following the service. The construction of the Mishkan, the traveling tent in which the Israelites
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