Published by Reuters By Ari Rabinovitch TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Scientists said on Thursday they had discovered a new kind of early human after studying pieces of fossilised bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel. The fragments of a skull and a lower jaw with teeth were about 130,000 […]
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By Yael Steinberg SAN DIEGO — From June 29 to July 3, America’s largest labor union, the National Education Association (NEA) will vote on two motions attacking Israel – New Business Item 29 (NBI 29) and New Business Item 51 (NBI 51). NBIs 29 and 51 are part of a larger pattern. In recent weeks, teacher’s union leaders
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday held a discussion on the spread of the coronavirus, with emphasis on the Delta variant. Participating in the discussion were Israel’s health minister, the head of the National Security Council, the attorney general, the national coronavirus project director, the Health Ministry director general, the
By Dan Elbaum (June 23, 2021 / JNS) It was perhaps the most important meeting in Jewish history, but it was also simply a discussion between two old friends. Harry S. Truman was the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world. Across from him in the Oval Office sat Eddie Jacobson,
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By Eran Swissa and JNS staff (June 24, 2021 / Israel Hayom via JNS) Gilad Shalit, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier who spent five years as a prisoner of Hamas, and Nitzan Shabbat were married on Wednesday in a private ceremony in central Israel. The two got engaged in 2020 after a two-year courtship.
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The tendency to equate the state with one’s person — expressed in the phrase “L’etat c’est moi” (I am the state) — was a feature of the monarchies of Europe in the period during and after the Middle Ages. With the passage of time, as the introduction of republics, democracies, and various forms of constitutional monarchy became a thing of the past, the phrase is now identified largely with the 17th century French king, Louis XIV (and to a limited extent France’s post-WWII president Charles de Gaulle). The phrase epitomizes the arrogance and self-importance of the person uttering it. I have not heard those words spoken by Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but his behavior in the latter part of his 12-year “reign” as Israel’s prime minister, as well as in the manner of his leaving that position, indicates that he may well think and believe it. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
By Jacob Kamaras Jewish Federation of San Diego County President and CEO Michael Jeser, who in May had stepped back from his position because of a recurrence of the cancer that had him sidelined much of last year, on Thursday announced that he has decided to decline further cancer treatment. Jeser wrote on Facebook that
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I was delighted to learn that Congress, by an overwhelming vote, has decided that Juneteenth should be a federal holiday. President Joe Biden subsequently signed the Juneteenth bill into law. Marking the June 19, 1865 date when U.S. Army Major General Gordon Granger abolished slavery in Galveston, Texas,
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Published by Al-Araby Bahrain has approached Israel’s new government to ask about peace process with the Palestinians and the efforts towards a two-state solution, the kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif Al Zayani said on Wednesday. Bahrain reached out to the Israeli government, which is now led by Naftali Bennett following the formation of a
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By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — In New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty raises her torch welcoming immigrants to the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” But there’s a catch. Straying too far from “American values” can get you catapulted back. Such was the fate of activist Eve Adams
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — With its unique mix of people from all over the world, almost all of them with Jewish roots, Israel’s population comprises a wide range of cultures, traditions, and even genetic composition. The juxtaposition of so many people from so many different backgrounds has given rise to some unexpected
RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) — A new study conducted by the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University and its affiliate Galilee Medical Center (GMC) is among the first to show that pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is associated with increased COVID-19 severity and mortality. Previous studies focusing on the association between vitamin D
Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranians vote on Friday in a race likely to hand the presidency to a judge sanctioned by Washington for alleged involvement in executions of political prisoners, a result that would cheer the clerical leadership but stir Western human rights concerns. Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, an ally and
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(June 17, 2021 / JNS) Israel is likely to run out of landfill space for the disposal of waste by next year, the Environmental Protection Ministry warned mayors and local council heads. The Efaa, Ganey Hadas and Tarbin (Dudaim) landfills are fast reaching capacity, which will likely necessitate their closure, the ministry said, according to
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