Palestinian students launch anti-Israel photo exhibit at Hebrew University (JNS.org) Watan, a Palestinian student group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, launched a new exhibit featuring photos whose captions are hostile to Israel, referring to Jerusalem as a “sewer of the Israeli settlements” and to Israeli soldiers as “the occupation army” and “the hunters
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has worked hard to forge an alliance with the king of Jordan. One of the results is said to be Israel supplying water for the million Syrian refugees currently in the kingdom without which they couldn’t survive. Another is the sale of half-a-billion dollars’ worth of
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Amnesty International released a report on Thursday, Feb. 27, accusing the IDF and Israeli police of being “Trigger-happy”, using “reckless force in the West Bank.” “Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West Bank over
Nicole Nathan, Let My RV Go!, Mosaica Press, 2013, ISBN: 9781937887087, 222 pages including glossary By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– The title to this novel is well chosen. It is a humorous play on the phrase “Let My People Go!” which we imagine Moses (or at least Charleton Heston in the Ten Commandments )
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Donald H. HarrisonDavid’s Psalms by David Sharir and Benjamin Segal; Gefen Publishing House, 2013; ISBN 9789652296191, 110 pages, Rating 5+ Stars. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This new book on the Psalms is very simple and yet very elegant. Rabbi Benjamin Segal’s previous volume, New Psalm: The Psalms as a Literature, is an excellent
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Feb. 26, welcomed Governor Jan Brewer’s veto of legislation that would have been a harmful attack on civil rights. Arizona’s so-called “religious freedom” bill, driven by opponents of marriage equality, would have provided a legal defense to individuals and businesses who claimed that a “sincerely
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By Anav Silverman ABEL BETH MAACAH, Israel – A hoard of silver dating back to the time of the Biblical Exodus, was discovered by American and Israeli archaeologists last summer at Abel Beth Maacah, a 35-acre tel and the northernmost site in Israel. Among the artifacts discovered were five complete silver hoop earrings, three silver
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer on Wednesday, Feb. 26, named Assistant Chief Shelley Zimmerman to succeed retiring William Lansdowne as San Diego’s Police Chief. The appointment becomes effective on Monday, March 3, the same day Faulconer will be sworn in as mayor. Zimmerman, who is Jewish, will be the first
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By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — You probably already know about the most famous of Israeli “firsts.” Such as Intel’s microchip breakthroughs, SMS technology, the digestible camera and cherry tomatoes. But every week there is news of exciting discoveries and innovations from the Jewish State. Last week, there was even more than usual. Dr. Itai
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Middle EastAttention Family Historians: If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5
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HAIFA (Press Release)–An Israeli physician-scientist is a member of the Toronto research team that discovered a stem cell that may be responsible for initiating leukemia and triggering relapses in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The groundbreaking study was published in Nature magazine Feb. 12. The findings show that in about 25 percent of
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), on Wednesday, Feb. 26, announced that an innovative startup company from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won the first ever “Cybertition.” The winner of the cyber-security startup competition was announced at a JVP co-sponsored event here. Titanium Core will receive a $1 million investment and space in
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –A midlevel thrum filled the rehearsal room at the JCC as nearly seventy actors sat in clusters, largely defined by age, or perhaps by character, here a munchkin, there an Auntie Em. On this particular Sunday, Joey Landwehr had installed two assistants to oversee the commotion and arrange for
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