StandWithUs Campaign Urges Congressional Review of Any Iran Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — StandWithUs has launched a campaign, encouraging people to email the Administration and Congress, supporting the right of Congress to review all nuclear deals with Iran’s regime. “The American people have a right to know all the details of the proposed nuclear deal before it is finalized,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO

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International, Middle East, USA

Biden Offers Condolences to Israel’s Bennett After Attacks

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden offered condolences on Wednesday in a call with Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a day after a Palestinian gunman killed five people in a Tel Aviv suburb, the latest in a string of fatal attacks, the White House said. “Biden … express(ed) his deepest condolences following

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Middle East

Israel Commits 1,000 Troops to Support Police After Week of Violence

Published by DPA Following the bloodiest week in Israel for 16 years, Defence Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday that 1,000 soldiers are to be deployed to support Israeli police in ensuring public safety. Following a shooting in the community of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv that left five people dead on Tuesday, Israeli forces

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Middle East

Whistleblower on UConn Israel-Bashing Should Now Test State of Connecticut

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Natalie Shclover displayed courage and integrity when she confronted Israel-bashing at the University of Connecticut a month ago, yet she made an error in judgment that boomeranged on her and offset a more productive outcome. In an “open letter” posted by The Times of Israel, Shclover recalled spotting posters

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Whither the United States in the Middle East — and Israel?   

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — In the period following WW2, the U.S. became the undisputed leader of the Western democracies. It was challenged in its position as world leader only by the USSR, whose rule extended to poor, Third World countries, and those European countries seized at the end of WW2. By 1991,

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International, Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA

Iran’s Multiple Threats and Biden’s Multiple Concessions

By Shoshana Bryen (JNS) The Biden administration appears to believe that Iran’s threat to the world consists only of its nuclear program and the possibility of nuclear war. It has lifted sanctions on Tehran and the terrorist designation from the Houthis of Yemen. It is considering lifting the terror designation from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

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International, Middle East, Opinion, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Israeli Tourism Minister Announces Skies Are Open

(JNS) Israel’s Minister of Tourism Yoel Razvozov announced on Tuesday that Israel would no longer close its skies to tourists—meaning all are welcome to arrive. Speaking at the International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) 2022 at Tel Aviv’s Expo exhibition grounds, Razvozov said: “I am proud to announce that after conversations with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett,

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International, Middle East

UAE, US, Israel Inaugurate Working Group on Religious Coexistence

(JNS) Israel, the United States and the United Arab Emirates began a new program to promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue, as well as counter religious intolerance and hatred at the inaugural meeting of the Trilateral Religious Coexistence Working Group in Dubai on Monday. Working with governments, organizations, philanthropies and leaders across the region, the group

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Middle East, USA

San Diego Jewish Academy Announces Key Addition to Leadership Team to Help Offer Programs to Broader Community

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) soon will provide more programs and campus experiences to the entire community with the addition of Adam Benmoise to its leadership team as SDJA’s first-ever Director of Auxiliary Programs. The expansion of SDJA’s auxiliary programs reflects the school’s recent growth and will generate income to

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Parashat Tazria-Hachodesh: Connecting Our Physical and Religious Lives

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — In this week’s parasha, Tazria, we discover tzara’as, which we have come to know in modern terms as leprosy. While this disease is uncommon today, who hasn’t found a spot or two on their body, had a biopsy and been told, B’H, “all is clean?” This seems

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Factual Errors Detract from Jewish Family Saga

This is a novel that traces a Jewish family through several generations from a shtetl in Poland to the big city of Warsaw, and later onward to Scotland, Germany, and England over the course of pogroms and two world wars. It is marred in the telling by a series of errors that might have been eliminated through more careful research or fact checking [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison