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Danes, Swedes attack brit milah; WJC counters

January 27, 2014

NEW YORK (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has strongly protested calls by Swedish and Danish medical associations for a ban on religious male circumcision. “The recommendation of the two medical associations is an insulting and intrusive assault on religious freedom,” said WJC CEO Robert Singer. “Religious circumcision, a procedure that has been practiced […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

A Polish opera director in the Judean Desert

January 27, 2014

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — Pre-state Israel experienced its first opera premiere when the Russian-born conductor and visionary, Mordechai Golinkin directed Verdi’s La Traviata (“The Fallen Woman”) in September 1923. With no opera house existing in Tel Aviv at the time, La Traviata had to be performed in movie theaters. In his quest to pioneer

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Travel and Food

Why rabbis should avoid ‘liturgical clichés’

January 27, 2014

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Someone once told me that there is a lot of anonymous suffering in the world. The phrase haunted me as I was apprised recently of the death, in a residential fire, of a 45 year-old woman who was born with Down’s syndrome and who never spoke a word

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Jewish Religion

Anti-Semitism in Orange County, N.Y., stirs ADL

January 27, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– In response to reports of anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush, N.Y. school district and elsewhere in the town, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has brought its Confronting Anti-Semitism program to Orange County in an effort to empower and equip the local Jewish community with constructive and effective responses to anti-Semitic incidents and

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USA

Does Jordan truly want an independent Palestine?

January 27, 2014

By Sean Savage/JNS.org The U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations have yet to yield any tangible results. Serious disagreements remain over key issues such as borders, refugees, security, and the status of Jerusalem. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a surprise visit to Jordan’s King Abdullah to discuss these issues. While Jordan officially supports a two-state

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Middle East

Diabetes can now be predicted earlier

January 27, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — An estimated 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Another 79 million are thought to have “prediabetes,” meaning they are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes. Now Dr. Nataly Lerner of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and her colleagues have discovered that a simple blood test reveals an individual’s risk

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Science, Medicine, & Education

The Menschkins

January 27, 2014

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

JNS news briefs: January 27, 2014

January 27, 2014

New excavations shed light on Sobibor death camp (JNS.org) A recent excavation has provided a silent testimony to the mass killing of about 250,000 Jews at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, 70 years after the perpetrators tried to cover their tracks by razing the site to its core and planting what was to

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International

Avoiding investments in terror states

January 27, 2014

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO– Dear Money Maven, I invest in several mutual funds. I was looking at my statements and realized that I have no idea what investments these funds hold. I’m not trying to second guess the managers, but how do I know if they’re investing in companies I wouldn’t want to own?

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Sheryl Rowling

Are Obama, Kerry blaming Jews for Iran failures?

January 27, 2014

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is angry that Senate proponents of additional sanctions against Iran (to be instituted if the interim accord expires without a final agreement) appear to be more skeptical of Iranian promises than the president and Secretary Kerry are. The administration is angry as well that signers, particularly Democratic

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Humoring the headlines: January 27, 2014

January 27, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will give the Republican response to the speech. Mike Lee will follow her with the Tea Party response to the Address. Finally, Rand Paul will follow him with a speech representing his idiosyncratic perspective. If

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Tel Aviv vendors sell their own handicrafts

January 26, 2014

By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org TEL AVIV (JNS)–Sure, it helps if you love to ogle the latest in hand-made crafts. But even if you don’t know a piece of greenware from earthenware, Tel Aviv’s Nachalat Binyamin Art & Craft Fair is a fun and funky way to spend a lazy Tuesday or Friday afternoon (the two days

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Travel and Food

650 Friends of IDF have warm, sentimental evening

January 26, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A salute Saturday evening, Jan. 25, to Israel’s Navy and a speech by its former commander Amihai Ayalon, who also is a past director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, was not, as one might expect, dedicated to probing analysis of the external threats faced by the Jewish State,

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Donald H. Harrison

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

January 26, 2014

ROME (Press Release)—AJC (American Jewish Committee) has called for increased vigilance following grotesque manifestations of anti-Semitism in Rome during the Jewish Sabbath on January 25. A box with a pig’s head was delivered to Rome’s Grand Synagogue on Friday and similar packages were delivered on Saturday to the Israeli Embassy and to the Museum of

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Jewish History

Danes, Swedes attack brit milah; WJC counters

A Polish opera director in the Judean Desert

Why rabbis should avoid ‘liturgical clichés’

Anti-Semitism in Orange County, N.Y., stirs ADL

Does Jordan truly want an independent Palestine?

Diabetes can now be predicted earlier

The Menschkins

JNS news briefs: January 27, 2014

Avoiding investments in terror states

Are Obama, Kerry blaming Jews for Iran failures?

Humoring the headlines: January 27, 2014

Tel Aviv vendors sell their own handicrafts

650 Friends of IDF have warm, sentimental evening

AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones

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