Obama orders additional screening of cargo in wake of terrorist package bomb threat

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– President Barack Obama made the following statement on Friday, Oct. 29, about packages with explosives overseas terrorists are believed to be mailing to the United States: THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  I want to briefly update the American people on a credible terrorist threat against our country, and the actions that […]

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Muslim cleric’s interview tells of radical’s frustration with other Muslims

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — An Egyptian Islamist cleric named Ibrahim al-Khouli is interviewed on television, with translation by MEMRI. What can we learn from his words? A lot. “What is the nature of our relations with [the West]? They are relations of Crusader aggression against the land of Islam–in Afghanistan, in Iraq, which

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Middle East

Union for Reform Judaism comes to aid of Haiti’s cholera victims

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), in partnership with the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), has announced an emergency grant to Partners In Health to address the cholera epidemic in Haiti. “Prevention and treatment for thousands will be accelerated as a result of this grant,” said Partners in Health’s Vice

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Travel and Food

ADL sends condolences on death of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed its deepest condolences to the president and people of Argentina on the death of Nestor Kirchner, the country’s former president and a great Argentinean leader. “Nestor Kirchner’s distinguished service to Argentina and Latin America leaves an enduring legacy,” said Robert G. Sugarman, ADL National Chair, and Abraham

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Travel and Food

ADL issues warning about suspicious packages sent to Jewish institutions

By Heather FrankSAN DIEGO — As news reports are indicating, and as ADL has learned from law enforcement sources, there is a reported threat to US Jewish institutions from packages mailed from overseas, particularly Great Britain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.  We are urging US Jewish communal institutions to increase mailroom security by ensuring that all packages

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Kennedy and 9/11 monuments in Israel are in out-of-the-way places

  By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A cousin is visiting from the Old Country. He is a patriot, proud of America’s accomplishments and sensitive to its pains. He asked to visit Israel’s monument to 9-11. Here in Israel? Oh yes. There was something about a dedication ceremony several months ago. How to find it? Googling found a

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Jews have something far more precious than rings

By Rabbi Baruch Ledeman SAN DIEGO — Rivkah was the perfect wife for Yitzchok because she possessed chessed (loving kindness).   Caring kindness and sensitivity to others, are hallmarks of the Jewish people as the  following true story, documented in  A Mother’s Favorte Stories by Sheina Medwed, illustrates:   Beth Shapiro was shopping with her elderly

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Jewish Religion

U.S. media’s Middle East reporting is naive. Ya think?

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –If you’ve lost faith in the current administration’s ability and mass media’s ability to respond to Middle East developments, here’s more evidence. There’s a relatively new American idiomatic expression, “Ya [you] think?” Said sarcastically, it means: Wow, duh, the answer to that question is really obvious! So consider how hidden,

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Israel Film Festival celebrates silver anniversary in Beverly Hills gala

  BEVERLY HILLS, California (Press Release) — A packed crowd of Hollywood luminaries joined in saluting Israel and Israel Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel  for the launch of this year’s festival which runs now through November 4th in Los Angeles with a special Closing Night presentation of two films on November 7. 

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Folksinger Peter Yarrow serenades Natan Sharansky at emotional Jewish Federation meeting

-First  in a series- Photos and Story by Donad H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Folksinger Peter Yarrow, who once sang as part of the trio of Peter, Paul and Mary at rallies to free Soviet Jewry sang a pair of songs to former Soviet Refusenik and current Jewish Agency for Israel chair Natan Sharansky at

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Garden dating from 7th Century BCE discovered by archaeologists near Ramat Rachel

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Ancient gardens are the stuff of legend, from the Garden of Eden to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem, and are leading the first full-scale

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish Book Fair schedules variety of programs in North San Diego County

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, thanks to a generous grant from the Leichtag Family Foundation, will present four events in North County at two locations.    On Sun., Nov. 14 at Temple Solel in Cardiff:  Sheila Isenberg will present her biography of heiress and resistance hero Muriel

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Placement of Israeli news indicator of media’s news judgment

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There is nothing wrong with the article in the New York Times under the headline, “March in Israel Ends in Clashes In Arab Town.” It correctly describes a march of Israel’s extreme religious-nationalist Jewish right, the organizational descendants of Meir Kahane, in the Arab city of Umm El-Fahm. Umm El-Fahm is the

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NJDC denounces House Republican leader for campaigning with ‘Nazi reenactor’

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)- Wednesday evening it was announced on disgraced House candidate Rich Iott’s website that House Republican Leader John Boehner — the self-described House Speaker hopeful — would campaign with Nazi reenactor Rich Iott this Saturday. National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) President and CEO David A. Harris issued the following statement in response

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