UCSD’s pro-Palestinian faculty: a case study

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — A recent study entitled Israel and the Campus counted a disproportionate number of anti-Israel incidents occurring on University of California and other elite campuses. It said “the most serious problem faced on campus is not from student activities, but from faculty” who “habitually abuse their academic freedom and have […]

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JNS news briefs: November 7, 2012

Norway is West’s most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel country, historian says (JNS.org) A major Norwegian historian and diplomat accused her own country of being “the most anti-Semitic country in the West” and attacked it for “biased support for only the Palestinian views” at a Jerusalem event on Tuesday.   “The degree of anti-Israelism in Norway today

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Travel and Food

Funders’ group hails Tarbuton program in San Diego

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Tarbuton, Israeli Cultural Center has been named one of the nation’s 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot ’12-‘13, a resource guide for Jewish innovation. The Tarbuton, Israeli Cultural Center was selected for this list because it offers creative Jewish and Israel education and multi-location Hebrew language classes through an

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Bar Ilan University welcomes students from San Diego

RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) — The Bar Ilan University “Israel Experience” GAP year has welcomed its largest group of students from San Diego. Bat-El Darey, Reena Moyal, Aaron Alpert and Rick Saxe have begun a year of undergraduate studies at the University’s campus near Tel Aviv. ‘Israel XP’ students take Jewish studies seminars in the

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Jewish candidates prevail in local San Diego races

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Jewish candidates, noticeably Congressman Bob Filner in the San Diego mayoral race, came out on top in semi-official returns in local political races, but his contest it won’t be decided until after absentee and provisional ballots are counted. With all 784 of the city’s  precincts counted,  Filner led City

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Donald H. Harrison

Obama re-elected; what now for U.S.-Israel relationship?

  By Jacob Kamaras and Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Capping a race that on a national level was largely defined by the economy but in the Jewish community turned into an extended debate over which candidate would steer the best course for the U.S.-Israel relationship, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to earn a

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Friends killed during Sandy remembered for kindness

Longtime friends Jessie Streich-Kest and Jacob Vogelman, two Brooklyn Jews in their 20s, were killed by a tree uprooted during the height of Hurricane Sandy. JNS.org interviews Vogelman’s father Lawrence and New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, a friend of Streich-Kest’s family. By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org Jessie Streich-Kest and Jacob Vogelman, two Brooklyn Jews and friends from childhood who

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USA

Jihadists’ rise in Syria complicates options for West

By Sean Savage/JNS.org As the conflict in Syria continues to escalate, there are growing fears of an increasing radical jihadist role in the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad’s government—complicating options for the West and presenting new threats for Israel. Syria’s beleaguered Christian community, which comprises 10 percent of the population, is witnessing the growth of

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Middle East

Refugee-turned-activist seeks attention for plight of Egyptian Jews

  By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—For Levana Vidal Zamir, it was a “good childhood”—until May 14, 1948. At midnight, she recalls, Egyptian officers rampaged through her family’s house and destroyed everything.  They denounced her uncle as a “Zionist,” arrested him, and held him in jail for almost two years. The Egyptian government confiscated the family’s business—the

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