Published by The Daily Caller Jewish students filed a lawsuit against the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the regents of the University of California system Wednesday over the administration’s alleged lack of effort to shut down a pro-Palestinian encampment that created a “Jew Exclusion Zone.” In April, students protesting the school’s ties to […]
This novel is a story of love, loss, and redemption with authoritative descriptions of transplant surgeries. First-time novelist Weill formerly directed the heart-lung transplant program at Stanford University. [Donald H. Harrison]
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In her meticulously researched and documented (80 pages of notes and references), D-Day Girls, journalist and bestselling author Sarah Rose follows a handful of these heroines through thick and thin; trough success and failure; through romances, double agents and double-crossings; through capture, imprisonment, interrogation, torture, unspeakable atrocities, sickness and even death for some. [Dorian de Wind]
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Did they abandon their dedication to the Palestinian cause because of a dominant police operation? Didn’t they have the courage to challenge a massive appearance of Jews and a resolute police force? [Bruce S. Ticker]
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SAN DIEGO – Six gallons of O negative is what I have given the San Diego Blood Bank, sometimes via the mobile trailer that visits Tifereth Israel Synagogue. I also donated with the American Red Cross when I lived in Dallas, so that is more than six gallons, but who is counting? My Dad (of
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Published by DPA Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched through Palestinian neighbourhoods in Jerusalem on Wednesday, provoking tense scenes and confrontations with police. The annual Flag March celebrates Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. Critics accuse organizers of deliberately antagonizing the divided city’s Palestinian community, with tensions especially high this year
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Published by Benzinga On Wednesday, a drone attack by Hezbollah from Lebanon resulted in injuries to at least 10 individuals in northern Israel, according to Israeli authorities, raising tensions about a potential counterattack from Tel Aviv. Recent cross-border strikes have caused large fires in Israel’s northern regions, leading the Israeli military to warn of potential
The show was part concert, part stand-up, part story-telling. It was just Patinkin and an accompanist on piano. After spending a bit of time heckling the late comers in the audience, he spent some time singing some songs from Broadway musicals, old Jazz hits, and even a surprising rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” [Sandi Masori]
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Calling ourselves 2nd generation Holocaust prolongs the need to remember the Shoah. Yes, we are not the survivors, but hopefully we who are alive because they survived the Shoah, will use the term to keep the memory of the HOLOCAUST alive. from one generation to another. [Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg]
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An innovative, new method that with high accuracy predicts cancer cell behavior has been developed by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Press Release]
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The resolution “calls for the perpetrators of this horrific act, including Iranian and Hezbollah operatives, to be held accountable for their crimes.” (Press Release)
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Caring for Jews in need – wherever they are and whenever they need us – is at the heart of what we do at Jewish Federation of San Diego. And this year, you helped us care in a big way. [Heidi Gantwerk]
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Published by Tampa Free Press A Columbia University alum has decided to ditch his alma mater by giving a $260 million donation to an Israeli university as protests continue to plague the Ivy League college’s campus, according to a Monday announcement. The donation was given to Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a public research university, by
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Published by AFP {SDJW: See objections from HIAS in the comment section} Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden will temporarily shut the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers whenever illegal migrant crossings surge, the White House said Tuesday, in a dramatic bid to neutralize one of his political weak spots in the reelection battle against Donald
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