By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Several of my correspondents have asked what we should do in the presence of our insoluble problem with the Palestinians. Immediately, not much. Wait for the dust to settle, both that raised by the present flurries of John Kerry, and the larger chaos throughout the Middle East, some of which we can
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Carmit Madar WASHINGTON (TNA) – The 2014 AIPAC Convention commenced with the singing of the Spangled Banner and the Hatikvah by Hagit Yassu, a young Israeli singer, who was among over 13,000 attendants from around the world, from all religions and walks of life, came together to show support for Israel. The convention hosted
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Middle East, USANetanyahu and California Gov. Jerry Brown sign pro-business agreement (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and California Governor Jerry Brown signed a pro-business pact on Wednesday. The agreement aims to expand and strengthen cultural, academic, and economic ties between Israel and California, with an emphasis on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber defense, biotechnology, health, agritech,
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– It may not have been as spectacular as the rescue at Entebbe, but the capture of the ship full of long range Iranian missiles on its way to Hamas in Gaza is very good news for Israel in general and its prime minister in particular. Having, by all accounts, just
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Middle East
ENCINITAS, California– The yearly Purim Carnival celebration at Temple Solel will be held on Sunday, March 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The carnival is open to the public and raises money to help fund educational programs at Temple Solel. The festivities include something for everyone, from games and rides for the kids, to
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By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking about those well-meaning, but naïve college students who “torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Lewis’s
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Steven Goldberg, a Los Angeles attorney who is national vice chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, claims he has overwhelming support in a straw poll of the ZOA membership to replace Morton A. Klein as the organization’s president. Conducted over a three-day period, and sent to 1,099 members
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Donald H. HarrisonEditor’s Note: In case you don’t speak Hebrew and don’t know airline codes, we offer these two glossary items for the following press release from El Al Air Lines. 1) Matmid is a Hebrew word meaning, “cool” or “fabulous!” 2) LY is the code on airline tickets for El Al. Having established that, here’s El
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC is profoundly disappointed with a senior UN official’s endorsement of blatant attacks on Israel in a new UN report on economic integration in the Arab world. Rima Khalaf, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), declared that the report accuses Israel
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal, released Tuesday, March 4, would slash nearly $200 million from Israeli Cooperative Programs, joint U.S.-Israel missile defense projects including the Arrow II, Arrow III, and David’s Sling. These missile defense systems protect Israeli citizens from rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria into Israel and
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Travel and Food
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Five pro-Israel groups have written a letter calling on San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong to speak out against and provide counter programming to an anti-Israel forum scheduled on the campus on Thursday. Contending that sponsors of the forum recently met with known terrorists while traveling in the Middle East, the
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – Rabbi Steve Gutow and Larry Gold, President and Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, on Wednesday, March 5 , released the following statement on the violence in Ukraine: “With the rest of the world, we have looked with deep concern on the recent events in Ukraine. Our hope
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International
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — At the just concluded AIPAC conference, Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland praised the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel, saying it was an inspiration for programs in his own state to help at-risk youth. In a video which Cummings showed to the assemblage, the village’s longtime director, Chaim Peri, said
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