Punjabi farmers tour Israel’s agricultural projects

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — A 10-member delegation of dairy farmers from the Punjab region of India recently visited Israel to participate in a training program about modern dairy farming techniques. The unique program was especially designed for the group by the Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINDACO) of Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and

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Middle East

Student Holocaust trips can trigger mental health issues

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— A new study led by Tel Aviv University researchers finds that the Holocaust education trips Israeli high school students take to Poland every year can trigger mental health problems. About a third of the psychiatric professionals surveyed in this pilot study said they had treated teenagers for psychological problems arising from

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Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: August 21, 2013

Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations take place under the radar (JNS.org) Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations were held secretly on Tuesday in Jerusalem, AFP reported, citing Palestinian sources. Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, reportedly met twice—first for two hours and later for one hour—with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and

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International

Palestinians still dedicated to Israel’s destruction

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964. Like most revolutionary movements, it wrote a Charter to define its aims and fundamental policies, including: Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the

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JNS news briefs: August 19 & 20

Egypt’s Catholic leader says country in a ‘war against terrorism’ (JNS.org) The ongoing turmoil in Egypt “is not a political struggle, but a war against terrorism,” the head of the Catholic Church in Egypt, Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria, said in a recent statement. “With pain, but also with hope, the Catholic Church

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International

Cry, the beloved Sinai

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The Sinai was a bit of heaven; now it is a chunk of hell. Muslims are killing each other in the wilderness where Moses received the Law; in Israel, hands are wringing and hearts are breaking. Since 1979, when Israel dutifully returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, the

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