Cailin Acosta

Michigan Attorney General Says She Was Target of Plot to Kill Jewish Officials

Published by Reuters By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Thursday she was one of the potential targets of a man who was charged by federal prosecutors with threatening to kill state employees who are Jewish. Jack Eugene Carpenter III, a 43-year-old Michigan man who was in Texas at the […]

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USA

Israel Has Reached a Sorry State of Affairs — But Do Not Despair

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Since my childhood in London, I have enjoyed being able to read a newspaper that is delivered to my house every morning. In England this was pushed through our letterbox and appeared on our carpeted hallway floor. In Israel it is thrown onto our driveway from the car

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Opinion

Israeli Researcher, Colleagues Discovers New Snake Family

(JNS) Using high-resolution magnetic imaging focused on snake skulls and DNA testing, Belgian, Finnish, Hong Kong, Israeli, Madagascan and U.S. researchers have identified a new family of snakes. There are just three species of micrelapidae—one in Israel and nearby areas and two in Kenya and Tanzania, per a Tel Aviv University release. Shai Meiri, a

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Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel is Our Business

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighborhood where I grew up. I recall reading that he skipped his graduation in June 1967 so he could fly to Israel and risk his life in defense of

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Award-Winning Jewish Pianist Igor Levit to Perform in La Jolla

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — The brilliant Russian-born Jewish pianist, Igor Levit, will be playing a solo recital at the Conrad in La Jolla on Thursday evening, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. It is under the auspices of the La Jolla Music Society. His program will consist of works by Brahms, Fred

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Speaking in San Diego, Former US Envoy Remains an ‘Optimist’ on Grim Subject of Antisemitism

By Jacob Kamaras SAN DIEGO — Rising antisemitism is a natural concern in the Jewish community for a variety of reasons, many of which Elan S. Carr outlined on Monday at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Legacy Luncheon. Yet Carr, who has worked on countering Jew-hatred worldwide from the upper echelon of government, somehow remains an optimist

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California, International, Israel, Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County, USA

Thoughts on the Torah Portion Tetzaveh, Priests, and Superstition

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin   BOCA RATON, Florida — The weekly portion of Tetzaveh begins and ends in the middle of chapters, showing once again that the rabbinic division of the Torah differs from the division of chapters that originated by Christians. We read about the oil for the Tabernacle lamp maintained by Aaron

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Israeli Minister Demands Action From Berlin on Iran Nuclear Program

Published by DPA Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called on Germany to take decisive action to prevent Iran from further developing its nuclear programme, during a visit to Berlin on Tuesday. “This is the moment to take steps. This is the moment to act with the aim of preventing Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon,”

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International

Parashat Tetzaveh, Shabbat Zachor: What Ornate Garments Teach Us About Humility

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Sixty-one years ago, when I became a bar mitzvah, I read this parasha, Tetzaveh, at Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, N.J., under the watchful eye and heart of Rabbi Joachim Prinz. I recall the rabbi telling me how relevant the parasha was to me, since I enjoyed

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell