Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One is a centre-left avowed secularist who says the Palestinians should get a state. The other is a firebrand of the religious hard right who wants to annex most of the occupied West Bank. Meet the men from Israel’s opposite political poles who could topple Benjamin
Israel’s odd couple: rivals who could topple Netanyahu together Read More »
Middle East
Published by Reuters By Andrea Shalal, Jeff Mason and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies. Biden voiced his support for a waiver – a
U.S. backs giving poorer countries access to COVID-19 vaccine patents, reversing stance Read More »
Business & Finance, International, USA
Published by Reuters By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States has begun rolling out a new system to identify and admit the most vulnerable migrants at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three people briefed on the matter. The new system, which started at
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International, USA
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) and Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the Chair and Vice Chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, announced Thursday the Caucus’ 2021 legislative priorities. Selected by the membership, the legislative package includes four Jewish Caucus Priority Bills, which address key Jewish community priorities, as well as a slate of nine Tikkun Olam Bills, which speak to core Jewish values, including tzedek (justice) and ve’ahavta lere’acha kamocha (loving the stranger as yourself). [California Legislative Jewish Caucus]
California Legislative Jewish Caucus Tells Priorities Read More »
USA
Nearly four decades have rushed by since the day that Sheri L. Bernstein served as a high school docent at the San Diego Museum of Art, during which she learned all she could about one of the paintings on exhibit and recited to visitors what she knew. [Donald H. Harrison]
San Diego Native Named Director of L.A.’s Skirball Museum Read More »
Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
The Biden administration’s new Middle East strategy is forcing regional powers to reassess their geostrategic interests and act in a manner that might end several conflicts that have plagued the region. [Alon Ben-Meir, Ph.D]
Four Pillars of Biden’s Mideast Strategy Read More »
Travel and Food
Wish you had the courage to express your feelings more in your life? Wish you stayed more in touch with friends during your lifetime? Wish you had the mettle to live the life you wanted to live and not the life others thought you “should” live? [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
Author Tells How to Live Without Regrets Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lifestyles, Michael Mantell
Wait, it’s not the chicken soup, it’s the herbs that count! Eastern European Jewry, particularly those living in the area known as “The Pale of Settlement,” on the western side of the Dnieper River, in present-day Ukraine, whose history there began in the Middle Ages, have a “long and distinguished canon dedicated to the healing process,” a research area unfortunately ignored, by-and-large, by sociological scholars. Cohen and Siegel, in their joint venture Ashkenazi Herbalism, describe the history and role of plants and herbs employed by Ashkenazi folk-healers, piecing together sparse, fragmented sources, and weaving them into an engaging story. [Fred Reiss, Ed.D]
Jewish Folk Remedies from the Pale of Settlement Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education
Some fifty years ago the International Piano Master Competition honoring pianist Arthur Rubinstein was established in Israel. Every three years (four years in 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic), young pianists from all over the world compete in front of audiences in Israel for the prizes awarded by an international jury in the framework of the competition. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
Neighbor Competed for an International Piano Prize Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions
Published by DPA India has recorded more coronavirus-related deaths in one day than ever before: in the past 24 hours, 3,780 people had died, India’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Confirmed new infections reached 382,000 in India in the same period, which means that in absolute numbers, India is the country most affected by the
All-time high reached in daily coronavirus deaths in India Read More »
International
Published by Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) -The Scottish National Party’s bid to win a clear mandate for having another independence referendum was balanced on a knife edge on the eve of Thursday’s parliamentary election, with polls showing the expected result was too close to call. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly
Scotland’s electoral bid for independence vote too close to call – poll Read More »
International
Published by DPA Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has tasked the former opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid (Future) party with forming a coalition, the presidential office said on Wednesday. The move was expected after caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so following inconclusive elections in March. Earlier, Rivlin held talks with
Israeli president tasks Lapid with trying to form new government Read More »
Middle East
Published by Al-Araby A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after only expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.
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International
This poetic text of this week’s Haftorah reading indicates Jeremiah’s commitment to God, despite his failures to successfully correct Judea’s wayward behaviors. The background is the coming destruction of the Southern Kingdom and Solomon’s Temple, with exile of their leaders by Babylon. Jeremiah’s prophesy career is experienced as repeated rejection. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
Haftorah Reading for May 8, 2021 Read More »
Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion