By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–One of my internet friends objects to my calling Europe the enlightened continent. “What in the blazes are you talking about.? Europe, the hot-bed of modern antisemitism…enlightened? The Netherlands with a de facto, maybe de jure euthanasia policy! France being so overrun with rebellious Muslims that there are scores of areas throughout the country […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Releazse)– EL AL Israel Airlines turned one New York woman’s panic into relief after a forgotten backpack containing $50,000 worth of jewelry and irreplaceable business documents was discovered and safely returned by EL AL employees. Upon arrival from Israel into JFK International Airport, the EL AL passenger accidentally left her backpack at
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Middle East, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Has the almond tree developed a unique way of drawing potential pollinators? A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an
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JNF DELEGATION–A delegation inspected rainwater harvesting facilities at Kibbutz Shoval in the Negev Desert as part of a Jewish National Fund tour spotlighting Israel’s critical water issues _____________________________________________________ By Ulla Hadar SDEROT, Israel — Almost two years have passed since my second visit to San Diego. At that time, editor Don Harrison of San Diego
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Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO–The next series of concerts by the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will be on Sunday, January 31, and Tuesday, February 2, and the theme will be Humor in Classical Music. Comedy in classical music can be a delicate commodity. What is funny to some people may be blasphemy to music purists,
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By Randy Fadem LA JOLLA, California–The film Bruriah, to be shown Feb. 14 and Feb. 21 at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, portrays a modern rendering of the Parable of Temptation and Sin that legend assigns to Talmudic Sage Bruriah and her weak-minded husband, Rabbi Meir. The historic Bruriah was a daughter of one
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM, Jan. 26–We may be forgiven if, when we read reports about anti-Semitism around the world, we’re tempted to conclude that many Israelis regard it as good news for at least two reasons: a vindication for living in Israel and a promise of continued aliyah, which Israelis love (even when they
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 20th Anniversary San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 10-21, 2010. Once again the festival will feature the Joyce Forum – A Day
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), distinguished author Norman Podhoretz, columnist and foreign policy expert Dr. Michael Ledeen and respected columnist Mark Steyn have all criticized the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham Foxman, for wrongly attacking radio broadcaster and strong friend of Israel, Rush Limbaugh, for making remarks that
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) … The arrest of five students from a West Bank yeshiva on charges of torching and vandalizing a mosque in a neighboring Palestinian village, “highlights the danger of the teachings of Yeshiva head Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in calling on responsible Orthodox Jewish leaders to “speak
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed as “a positive first step” Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s letter to the Greek Jewish community, in which he conveyed his solidarity after the synagogue arson attack on the island of Crete, and stated that “anti-Semitism and racism are condemned and have no place in the
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Travel and FoodPARIS (WJC)–A group of Islamic extremists has burst into a mosque near Paris during a prayer service and threatened to kill the local Imam, Hassen Chalghoumi, because of his efforts to improve relations between Jews and Muslims. “We are going to liquidate him, this imam of the Jews,” some of the about 80 people who
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Travel and FoodBERLIN — Siemens AG of Germany, Europe’s biggest engineering conglomerate with operations world-wide, has announced that it would cut all future business deals with Iran, although the company intends to honor existing contracts. Germany is one of the biggest exporters to Iran. Siemens business deal in Iran have repeatedly come under fire. The company’s CEO
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Middle EastMoshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, published this Op-Ed column in the Jerusalem Post: By Moshe Kantor JERUSALEM (WJC)–In his seminal quote written at the beginning of the last century, philosopher George Santayana said in his treatise ‘The Life of Reason’ that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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