NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan. 8, urged the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to hold the El Palestino Club soccer team accountable for violating FIFA regulations and its Code of Ethics during a soccer game on January 4, when its players replaced their standard uniform with jerseys imprinted […]
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Travel and Food
By Yael Ron PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — Being the mother of a sick child is not simple. In our case, the struggle began with his birth. It was a birth that took us by surprise, a Caesarian section, and the baby was flown off to the preemie ward. We just stood there. Bewildered. Too frightened
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SACRAMENTO (Press Release)—Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) on Wednesday, Jan. 8, announced the creation of the Assembly Select Committee on Campus Climate, which will investigate issues pertaining to student welfare on college campuses. Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber (D-San Diego), who worked as a professor and department chair at San Diego State University for 40
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USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty,” the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) on Wednesday, Jan. 8, praised the half century of safety net programs that continue to help lift millions out of poverty and pledged to continue to fight to strengthen them. “We
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USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— As people get older, their bodies wear down and become less resilient. In old age, it’s common for people to become “clinically frail,” and this “frailty syndrome” is emerging in the field of public health as a powerful predictor of healthcare use and death. Now researchers Vicki Myers and Prof. Yariv
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Science, Medicine, & Education
MUNICH (WJC) — The government of Bavaria, one of the 16 German states, announced on Tuesday that it would introduce a bill in the upper house of the German legislature aimed at facilitating the restitution of Nazi-looted art. If adopted, the new legislation would eliminate a 30-year statute of limitations in the German Civil Code
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion
By Aryeh Savir The year 2013 saw a marked increase in the involvement of foreigners in the fighting against the Syrian regime, this according to a report compiled by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC). Most join Al-Qaeda and global jihad-affiliated organizations, gain military experience, and undergo radicalization and Jihadization, which they
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Middle EastHalf the U.S. Senate now supports new Iran sanctions bill (JNS.org) Support among U.S. Senators for a new Iran sanctions bill has doubled since it was first proposed in December, rising to support by half the Senate. A total of 50 U.S. Senators from across party lines now support the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act
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International
NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC, in a press release dated January 8, said the organization was “dismayed by the destruction of more than 50,000 books in an arson attack on a major Christian library in Tripoli, Lebanon. Al-Saeh library was targeted by a mob after a pamphlet insulting the Prophet Mohammed was allegedly found in
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Undergoing medical tests of various kinds invariably involves spending what seems like endless hours hanging around in hospital waiting rooms and corridors. Strange as it may seem, the most sophisticated modern medical procedures, engaging equipment almost equivalent to the engine of a jet fighter plane, require imbibing quantities
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman German tourist, Eleonore Kastner, affectionately known as Oma Ella, celebrated her 104th birthday in a Dead Sea hotel with forty friends and family who traveled with her to Israel for the special event. Since she turned 100 four years ago, Oma Ella had decided that the time had come to “live a
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
SANTIAGO, Chile (WJC) — A Palestinian soccer team in Chile has ignited a controversy over its shirts, which show the entire map of Israel as Palestine. The uniforms of the Club Deportivo Palestino, which was founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants to Chile, use the map of Israel in place of the number 1
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InternationalBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO– Dear Money Maven, What is the Medicare Surtax? How will I know if it will apply to me? Worriedly, Concerned Taxpayer * Dear Concerned, As of 2013, you might have been impacted by the by the 3.8% Medicare Surtax. You shouldn’t worry: you just need to know how the calculation
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Sheryl Rowling
NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations announced that the international Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), has been voted into membership of the national umbrella organization. Conference Chairman Robert G. Sugarman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, said that the admission of AEPi reflects the commitment to involve
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Science, Medicine, & Education