NEW YORK (Press Release) — Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), strongly condemned an article by the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Richard A. Falk, in which he blames the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon earlier this month on Israel and on American foreign policy. In an […]
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USABEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Galapagos National Park to aid conservation of the endangered islands’ biological diversity. “In spite of excellent management and meticulous policing of ecotourism, a full-blown ecological disaster is unfolding before our eyes,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Aryeh Savir UNITED NATIONS, New York — Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke Wednesday, April 24, during the UN Security Council’s monthly debate on the Middle East. During his statement he noted that: “Earlier this month, the Iranian delegate…had the audacity to say the following ‘the transfer of arms to
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Middle EastBy Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid Anti-Israel activists spin tales about alleged Israeli human rights abuses to instill hostility against the Jewish state. They have had an impact, but not one desired by most fair-minded people. The false allegations have served as a decoy, distracting the UN, NGOs, churches, students and the wider public from the
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Middle EastRock-thrower sentenced for killing Israeli man and son (JNS.org) Israel’s Ofer Base Military Court on Wednesday sentenced Waal al-Arja, a former officer in the Palestinian Authority’s security forces who was convicted of the 2011 murders of 30-year-old Asher Palmer and his year-old son Yonatan, to two consecutive life terms with an additional 58 years,
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InternationalTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Because it has no source of energy, a dead star — known as a white dwarf — will eventually cool down and fade away. But circumstantial evidence suggests that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, says Prof. Dan Maoz of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Now Prof.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Recently I came across an interesting but unusual halachic question: Can a Jewish pimp receive an Aliya on Shabbat? The original questioned pertained to a pimp who was the only Levite in his community. The question came to the attention of the famous Iraqi Sephardic Rabbi
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Artist Peter Max is a busy, peripatetic man. He squeezed my telephone interview with him into a New York City cab, which he directed, on Wednesday, April 24, to “turn left on 83rd Street” en route to an appointment. He arrived at his destination within nine minutes, so
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will sponsor the Superhero 5k and BBQ on June 9th to aid the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings. The family friendly event will take place at Liberty Station in San Diego. Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favorite hero to honor
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San Diego CountyBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — Nearly one millennium ago, a group of Armenian monks established a hospital outside the walls of Jerusalem to treat victims of leprosy, a chronic disease that was widespread during the Middle Ages. The hospital, known as the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, eventually served the Knights
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Union Raises Fund For Histadrut Center Southwestern Jewish Press, May 31, 1957, Page 5 Mr. Charles J. Hardy, Secretary, Local 500 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, reports that at a recent testimonial dinner to Mr. Ed S. Miller in Chicago, funds were raised tobuild a youth center in Israel. More than
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a U.S. senator, Chuck Hagel went to great lengths to assure people he was not the “Senator from Israel,” and he seemed surprised when people objected to his remark, “The political reality is … that the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.” It was never
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenB’NEI BRAK, Israel (Press Release) –– From the thoughts of Avi Sorias, an ambulance driver for Ezer Mizion “Here,” says the young man from behind me. “At the right.” From my place at the steering wheel, I glance at his image in the mirror. He sits there, limp and helpless, his head dropped back against the
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By Garry Fabian CAPE TOWN, South Africa — While the Jewish population in South Africa has diminished over the last decade as many have emigrated to the US, Australia, Israel and other parts of the world, there is still a substantial number living in the country. We recently spent a week in Cape Town, where
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