JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Jan. 31, called on Knesset Member Moti Yogev to apologize to US Secretary of State John Kerry for his disparaging comments about the Secretary’s attitudes towards Jews and Israel. ADL denounced Yogev’s accusations as “offensive, inflammatory and totally without any basis,” and stated that Secretary
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Jan. 31, condemned the anti-Semitic remarks of Laurent Louis, a member of Belgium’s lower house of parliament who asserted during a parliamentary debate that Zionists had organized and financed the Holocaust and subsequently gave the Nazi-like “quenelle” salute. ADL welcomed the strong and immediate
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International
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A set of guidelines issued by House Republicans called “The Standards for Immigration Reform” has been greeted with mixed reviews by Jewish organizations concerned with immigration. HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, said on Friday, Jan. 31, that it “welcomed the GOP Principles on Immigration Reform as an important
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed criticism and concern at President Barack Obama’s observations and assertions regarding Iran and its nuclear weapons program in his State of the Union address. The ZOA has pointed to five misleading claims on Iran in President Obama’s speech: 1. Since the Geneva agreement
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In this week’s parasha the Children of Israel are commanded to build the Mishkan, the traveling Tabernacle (tent) in which they will worship God while traveling through the Sinai desert. Although the Torah records that God told the Israelites, “Build me a Sanctuary so that I may dwell
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Jewish ReligionArab man tries to breach Iron Dome battery (JNS.org) Israeli soldiers shot and wounded an Arab man who tried to breach the perimeter of an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery in Eilat on Thursday, Israel Hayom reported. The man, a resident of Haifa, approached the Iron Dome battery unarmed and was ordered by soldiers to stop.
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International
By Steve Kramer KIBBUTZ GESHER, Israel — Michal and I recently joined a full busload of hikers for a wonderful 8-mile trek sponsored by the English Speaking Residents Association (www.esra.org.il). It was just before Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish new year for trees. We couldn’t have picked a more perfect day to be among the hills,
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Steve Kramer, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins apologized for drawing a parallel between the “progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich” and “Nazi Germany’s war on its ‘one percent,’ namely its Jews.” …This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive”
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week Though the probability of success of the renewed efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry to forge a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still uncertain, experts have expressed concern about a longstanding policy that could force the United States to lose much of its multilateral clout within the
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International
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)- Faith questions from a groundbreaking new poll of 3839 members of the disability community were released today by RespectAbilityUSA, a non-profit organization working to enable people with disabilities to have the opportunity to achieve the American dream. The poll shows that Jews with disabilities and their families are far less engaged
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Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Paula Siegel, who brought a Jewish passion for tikkun olam to Democratic party politics in California, died at 4 a.m. Thursday, January 30, in her Banker’s Hill home in San Diego. She was 82. Siegel worked as a volunteer or as a consultant in numerous local, state and national political campaigns,
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San Diego County
LONG BEACH, California (Press Release) – California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees have heard, without comment, an appeal for support for the AMCHA Initiative’s request to California Attorney General Kamala K. Harris to investigate CSU Northridge’s Professor David Klein. AMCHA Initiative contends that for four years Klein has illegally used CSUN’s name and resources
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israeli politicians are preparing the public for the report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is about to present. Whether they already know what’s in it or are guessing or are working on authorized leaks isn’t clear. Here are some of the signs: *It started when Prime Minister
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Middle EastBook: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich. Harvard University Press, 490 pages, 2012. By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — What is an anarchist? As we know, there are so many different types of Jews that it is safe to conclude that there
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion