By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — When it came to planning my family’s summer vacation this year, the process could be summed up by a Yiddish proverb: Der mentsh trakht un Got lakht. Man plans and God laughs. Initially scheduled to depart for Hawaii on August 24, we later realized that we booked that […]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hady Amr, the Biden administration’s envoy to Israel and the Palestinians, went on a mission to help Palestinians. He asked Israel to take steps to alleviate “Palestinian suffering” and help the Palestinian economy. What he really meant was to help Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — University of California, San Diego (UCSD) student Sivan Barashy, a 2020-21 StandWithUs (SWU) Emerson Fellow, has been named the first-place winner of the prestigious Roberta Seid Award for Courage and Leadership. The award is named in honor of SWU’s first Director of Research and Education Dr. Roberta Seid. Sivan is
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
(July 23, 2021 / JNS) Gymnast Estella Agsteribbe was one of five Jewish women to participate in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928. She was a trailblazer not only as a Jewish athlete, but as one of the first women permitted to compete in gymnastics at the global sports event. In September 1943, Estella
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International, Sports & Competitions
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Imagine the shock and amazement that Harry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, felt when he spotted this license plate on a Chevy Volt!
Jewish-Interest License Plate: OYGVOLT Read More »
Trivia, Humor & Satire
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — A new Tel Aviv University study found that, like humans, bats living in Tel Aviv enjoy the wide variety and abundance of food that the city has to offer, in contrast to rural bats living in Beit Guvrin, who are content eating only one type of food. The study was
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Sean Savage (July 22, 2021 / JNS) The recent announcement that Ben & Jerry’s plans to end its sale of ice-cream in “occupied Palestinian territory,” primarily Judea and Samaria as well as eastern Jerusalem, has stirred a fierce reaction, including potential legal and financial repercussions for the ice-cream maker and its parent company Unilever.
Will US anti-BDS laws cause financial meltdown for Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever? Read More »
Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – News came over the Internet about a Florida man being arrested on Wednesday after he was found in possession of a still living Goliath Grouper which he had caught off a bridge in Islamorada. Goliath Groupers, which can grow to 800 pounds, are a protected species. The one
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — One thing is clear about the recent decision by Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling ice cream in what the company described as “Occupied Palestinian Territory” (referring to parts of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem): Jewish opinions about the frozen products are on fire. As the passionate
Choosing a Flavor of Response to the Ben & Jerry’s Boycott Read More »
Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Within a week, Pope Francis and two prominent black men took steps that can only benefit the Jewish people in a followup, perhaps coincidental, to a rally of Jews and others who gathered near Capitol Hill to protest antisemitism. The July 11 event in Washington, D.C., with an
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Bruce Ticker, USA
OXNARD, California (Press Release) — Herzog Wine Cellars, a Southern California-based kosher winery owned and operated by America’s oldest wine making family, is pleased to announce and welcome celebrated winemaker David Galzignato as its new senior winemaker and director of winemaking operations. Galzignato will work with one of Herzog’s founding winemakers, Joe Hurliman, who has
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Travel and Food, USA
By Yaakov Lappin (July 21, 2021 / JNS) As soon as it can enter into operations, the new Russian single-engine stealth fighter jet will likely arrive in the Middle East through future arms sales to local countries, though this does not form a severe threat to Israel’s security, a former Israeli defense official has assessed.
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International, Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — A group of 160 new French immigrants to Israel arrived at Ben Gurion Airport today aboard a special Aliyah (immigration to Israel) flight from Paris organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration. The olim (immigrants) were accompanied on the flight by Israeli Minister of
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International, Middle East
By Deborah Fineblum (July 14, 2021 / JNS) Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year? Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first one, built by King Solomon, was demolished by the Babylonians in 586
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion