Another Desperate — and Fake — Israeli Apartheid Report Readied for the Airwaves

(c) By Edwin Black Amnesty International is attempting to bomb the world’s airwaves, news sites, and printing presses with yet another fake Israeli apartheid report. Last week, in an extraordinary move of attempted media synchrony, Amnesty actually pre-positioned an embargoed press release emblazoned with a bright red instruction to editors “Under Strict Embargo until 1 […]

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, Opinion

Israeli Attorney General’s Term-Ending Plea (Bargain) Spree

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit is coming to the end of his term. And he’s finishing it with a number of plea bargains. One has been with Ariyeh Deri. He’s pleading guilty to tax fraud, paying a fine of 180,000 shekels ($56,615) resigning from the Knesset, but avoiding a

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion

Groundbreaking Israeli Study Challenges Fundamental Understanding of Evolution

HAIFA (Press Release) — A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory by showing a long-term directional mutational response to environmental pressure. Using a novel method, researchers led by Professor

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Book Expands Cerebral Understanding of the Jewish Faith

“The Foundation of Judaism,” by Akiva Aaronson (originally published by Targum Press, Inc. 1997, 2000); Feldheim Publishers, 2021; ISBN: 978-1680254815; 216 pages. By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — I just finished composing my weekly D’var Torah on parashat Terumah, focusing on gifts, and a surprise parcel arrived at my front door. A delightful

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Did Maimonides Believe That God Produces Miracles?

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — I was requested to write on the question, “Did Maimonides believe that God produces miracles?” This question has been debated for centuries. I will give the ideas held by those who state that Maimonides contended that God does not perform miracles. To understand this view, one

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

‘The Jews of Sing Sing:’ Understanding Why Some Jews Fell Into Crime

“The Jews of Sing Sing,” by Ron Arons; Barricade Books, 2008; ISBN 978-1569803332; 384 pages. By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Back in 1965, I remember sitting on the stoop of the bungalow in Far Rockaway, and hearing my Pop Pop and his brothers-in-law kibitzing about the gonif who broke into his butcher shop

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, International

Book Provides an Ideological Scaffolding of Jewish Life

“Why Do Jewish? A Manifesto for 21st Century Jewish Peoplehood,” by Zack Bodner; Gefen Publishing, Jerusalem, ©2022; ISBN 978-965-7023-68-6; 196 pages, plus references and index; $18.00. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Prognostication is very difficult, particularly as it pertains to the future. Zack Bodner, having extensive background in Jewish communal life and currently

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Judaism

Program Showcases San Diego Jewish Community’s Poetic Talent

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California —The poetic talent in the San Diego Jewish Community was once more on display last Monday evening, January 24, when three featured poets and nine others on open mic read their works during the “Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices” program. Sponsored by the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center’s Astor Judaica Library

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard

New Book Provides Up-Close Look at North American Jewish Day Schools

(Press Release) — Readers get an up-close look at nine different Jewish day schools across North America — including two in California — in a new book, Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community, co-authored by Alex Pomson, PhD, Principal and Managing Director at Rosov Consulting, and Jack Wertheimer, PhD, the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of

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Travel and Food

‘It Began With Words’

By Ari Morgenstern (JNS) The horrors of Nazi concentration camps did not materialize from thin air. Neither did the shootings in Poway, Calif., or Pittsburgh, Pa.; nor did the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas. As the late Holocaust survivor and educator Irving Roth often said: “It began with words.” We must heed that warning now—here in

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Opinion, USA

California School District Adopts ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies Program Marked By Anti-Israel Bias

By Faygie Holt (JNS) Jewish groups in California took out a full-page ad in a local newspaper on Wednesday to voice their displeasure and concern with a school-board decision to engage an ethnic-studies curriculum for high school and middle-school students that they say will lead to hostility towards Israel and Jewish students. Appearing in the

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California, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust-Themed Graphic Novel ‘Maus’

Published by Reuters By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A school board in Tennessee has voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel “Maus” from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman. The 10-0 vote by the McMinn County Board of Education in Athens, Tennessee,

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