NEW YORK (Press Release) – Two apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) visited AJC in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The extraordinary visit marked the first time that LDS church apostles have come to AJC’s global headquarters, and follows upon a series of meetings at the LDS world headquarters […]
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Tel Aviv University researchers won two out of three prestigious melanoma research awards granted this year by The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) and The Saban Family Foundation. The Team Science Awards are the centerpiece of the MRA research fund, which seeks to promote transformational melanoma research for swift clinical implementation.
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Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (WJC) – Delegates at the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Assembly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 18, elected the British-Austrian businessman Julius Meinl, 54, as the organization’s new president. Meinl succeeds Vadim Shulman, who did not stand for re-election. The assembly confirmed Josef Zissels of Ukraine as chairman of the General Council and Mikhail Chlenov
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InternationalBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org In the Exodus story, Moses decides to rescue his people after he hears God speak to him through the burning bush. But when New York City-based artist Jan Aronson imagined the famous episode in which Moses must decide which path to take in life, she didn’t see a magic fire, but
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Travel and FoodBoycotters of Israel are ‘classical anti-Semites in modern garb,’ Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Boycotters of Israel are “classical anti-Semites in modern garb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of leaders visiting Jerusalem with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday. “I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing,
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International
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)– The remnants of a rural town that was lived in for approximately two centuries during the Second Temple Period were uncovered near the ‘Burma Road’, on the main route to Jerusalem. In June 2013, Israel Natural Gas Lines began construction of the 35km-long project, which runs from the coast
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC lauded Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s visit to Israel this week. “Peru has raised the bar for South American relations with Israel,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute (LLAI). “We remember that Peru supported Israel’s bid for statehood in 1947,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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InternationalBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO– “It is required you do awake your faith.” To Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Old Globe and the director of this production, this is the central theme Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. Ten years ago, when he directed this play in New York, the concepts of jealousy and loss were
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Travel and Food
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Adventures in SD History
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Samantha, the third among our four children in a hyphenated family, departed Sunday, Feb. 16, for six months abroad—in South America. She’s been there before; the mosaic of Mapuche cultures, the agrarian hills and low-lying villages, the Polynesian footprints, the vineyards, the quad-gods and mingled human-animal cosmology, the
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Travel and Food
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Amid the celebrations and hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America and their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the man Paul McCartney called “the fifth Beatle” is not often mentioned. But experts say that without him, the Beatles as we know them would not have existed. That
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Travel and Food
STAMFORD, Conn.—The United Nations is in session. Sam Collins. Croatian delegate to the World Intellectual Property Organization, rises to address the debate on a topic currently occupying the Global Access to Knowledge Movement (A2K): Should free or low-cost smartphones be distributed to populations of developing countries? He suggests, “Instead of giving them information, let us
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―The warm weather at the Sochi Olympics has made the snow too slushy for many of the outside events. Facing the prospect of global warming affecting future winter games, the International Olympic Committee has voted to give the local organizers permission to switch skiing events into water skiing events if the
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