By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Sometimes you have to wait until high-ranking officials leave office to find out how truly clueless they are. Such is the case with former National Security Advisor James Jones. Israel-Palestinian peace is easy to obtain, he explained in a lecture. Why? Because the Palestinians are willing to accept Israel […]
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)—An “anti-bullying” bill introduced in Congress last week gravely threatens free speech on America’s college campuses. Despite the bill’s admirable intention of preventing future tragedies, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has determined that the bill is at odds with the Supreme Court’s carefully crafted definition of harassment and would require colleges to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You want soap opera in real life? It is far from politically correct to be cynical in the presence of charges about sexual harassment and rape, but who wants politically correct in the presence of these stories? The initial inquiry into a leading candidate for the job of national police chief has
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama struck just the right notes after the North Korean artillery barrage that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians yesterday. He was outraged, as we all should be, but didn’t take the North Korean bait. U.S. Forces Korea – not the White House – made the
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) – Nearly 800 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 113th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 21 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. William Kristol, founding editor of the Weekly Standard, regular Fox TV panelist and co-founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, and
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USATEL AVIV (Press Release)– Ferrography, a practice used by the American and Israeli air forces to monitor the condition of machinery, extracts tiny iron particles from lubricants such as oil and grease to analyze wear in machines. Determining whether a system requires preventative maintenance can be the key to preventing catastrophic failure. Now Tel Aviv
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–To address persistent stagnation in Israeli-Palestinians negotiations, J Street is putting forth a new policy proposal urging President Obama to adopt a bolder, more assertive strategy to resolve the conflict. The pro-Israel, pro-peace movement is asking the administration not to pin its strategy on obtaining a 90-day extension of the partial settlement
J Street urges President Obama to press for decision on Israel-Palestinian borders Read More »
Middle EastBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — If anyone tells you that the United States is a nest of Islamophobia and that’s a huge problem that must be atoned for by all sorts of measures, just give them the official FBI hate crime statistics. The numbers are now out for 2009. The report and the site
Far more Jews than Muslims subjected to hate crimes in U.S. Read More »
USABy Tammy Rubin SAN DIEGO — Homeless beggars make me uncomfortable. It’s not the ragged clothes they wear or the folded signs they hold, but rather the fact that they subconsciously force me to look within myself and consider my wealth and the materialistic life I live. Just as I begin to contemplate the value
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will have the opportunity of a lifetime to work with a world-renowned artist when Mordechai Rosenstein visits the school in December. At SDJA, he will engage students in the creation of a unique piece of art that will incorporate the school’s current annual theme
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SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, ever vigilant for Jewish license plates, recently hit a trifecta: “Da Chozn” could be a New Yorker or New Jerseyite’s way of saying he or she is part of the chosen people — Jewish, that is. Try4613 is a way of encouraging California freeway drivers to attempt to fulfill God’s commandments
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The FBI released on MONDAY, Nov. 22, the 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The United States is offering Israel a variety of gifts and promises in exchange for a 90-day building freeze that includes eastern Jerusalem (according to a U.S. official, as reported by Ha’aretz) to induce the Palestinians to negotiate with Israel for the Palestinian state to which President Obama appears committed.
Obama pushes on behalf of Palestinians, and still they won’t make peace Read More »
Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–The reinvented National Museum of American Jewish History features this inspired advantage: A visitor can readily find it, and swiftly reach it. The museum, which traces the Jewish experience in the United States, is located at the same corner as Philadelphia’s Fifth Street SEPTA subway station and a stop for numerous
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