By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Sarah Netanyahu’s reputed objections to Naftali Bennett joining her husband’s government – after the near-spectacular success of Bennett’s Habayit Hayehudi party in last year’s elections – may have been vindicated, even though her opposition was personal and the present rift between the prime minister and Bennett is ideological and political.
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Middle EastIsraeli-Palestinian conflict talks a ‘non-issue,’ says Ya’alon (JNS.org) The current U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations are a “non-issue,” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Tuesday at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv. “The Palestinian subject is a non-issue,” Ya’alon said. “Behind closed doors the Palestinian issue does not even come up. In
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InternationalWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- The Jewish Council for Public Affairs welcomed President Obama’s support for unemployment insurance as part of the robust agenda to increase opportunity that he described tonight in his State of the Union address. In addition to extending unemployment insurance to those out of work the longest, a priority of the organized
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 24th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will open February 6-16, 2014. Sponsored by Leichtag Foundation. The San Diego Jewish Film Festival showcases over 60 of the best contemporary Jewish
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) On Tuesday, Jan. 28, welcomed the statement issued by Scarlett Johansson on her role as a spokesperson for the Israeli company SodaStream, and commended her “principled opposition” to the anti-Israel BDS movement. As a reaction to the recent SodaStream announcement that Johansson will appear in their new Super
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO — Someday, San Diego Jewish World may decide to endorse City Councilman David Alvarez for a higher office, but not in this election. We support City Councilman Kevin Faulconer to be the next mayor of San Diego. First, we point to Faulconer’s experience on the City Council. He’s been there for two terms
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Donald H. HarrisonYesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — William Hughes Mearns could have been speaking for the American government’s proclivity to see an Israeli-Palestinian peace that doesn’t exist. Secretary of State Kerry at Davos
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –Jack Rosen, president of American Jewish Congress has thanked Members of the House of Representatives who signed on to the bipartisan letter opposing the American Studies Association (ASA) vote calling for an academic boycott of Israel. “AJCongress is in full support of the Members who stand with those who believe in
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USA
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)–There are people whose contributions to baseball history went far beyond mere batting averages or stolen bases. They didn’t just play the game, they changed the game. For generations of American Jews and other minorities, they served as athletic, cultural, and ethical role models. On March 13, 2014, just in time for the
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By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org BOSTON–The Ruderman Family Foundation on Monday, Jan. 27, announced that Dr. Michael Ashley Stein, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and an internationally recognized expert on disability rights, will receive the inaugural $100,000 Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion. Stein is the co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School
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Jacob Kamaras, USASyrian opposition, Lebanese military blame Israel for strike on S-300 missiles (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) On Monday, Syrian opposition groups and the Lebanese military claimed that Israeli Air Force planes bombed S-300 missile launchers in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Sunday night. The S-300 is an advanced Russian anti-aircraft system. Despite the claims,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The professor who directs the Center for Law and Media at Israel’s Ariel University says the Jewish state must argue its case more vehemently in the courts of law and public opinion, and to do that it must be willing to invest the money it takes to counter
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