As part of the settlement, Harvard has agreed to implement a series of steps, building on measures that Harvard has undertaken over the past year as a part of its commitment to combating anti-Semitism. Harvard and the Brandeis Center look forward to working together in these efforts. [Press Release}
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Antisemitism, California, Israel, Press Release, USA
This inauguration, for me, was a tragic way to honor this day, which is the American federal holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There was a celebration and inauguration of Trump and his oligarchic Cabinet of mostly elite rich white men on a day commemorating one of the greatest Americans, one of the most globally recognized African Americans, and one of the most ardent Zionists and activists for racial and economic justice in history – The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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Barrett Holman Leak, Israel, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Today, as we honor Martin Luther King Jr., I am thinking about how freedom, which seems so fundamental to human existence, almost always comes at a cost. [Heidi Gantwerk]
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Heidi Gantwerk, Israel, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USA
What rabbi spoke at a presidential inauguration and then at a later time criticized that President? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Israel, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
The most noticeable bipartisan moment during President Donald Trump’s second inaugural speech on Monday, January 20, was when he commented that he was “pleased to say that as of yesterday … the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.” [SDJW staff]
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Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Slightly past 9 p.m. Israeli time on Sunday in Ramat Gan. I am smiling at television footage of Emily Damari’s friends jumping up and down to cheer her arrival at Sheba Hospital. Then I stiffen up as I think of the pain and anguish she must have endured for the past 15 months. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) is urging President Donald Trump to demand that the Palestinian Authority surrender the killers of 16 Americans who are being released in the Gaza agreement. [Press Release]
Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher–three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023—were returned to Israel on Sunday, Jan. 19, amid worldwide media coverage of the first phase of a Middle East ceasefire in which Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners from Ofer Prison. [SDJW Staff]
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International, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors
This weekend we honor the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I wasn’t around when he was and as far as I can remember, it was always a school holiday. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Israel, Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food
Gad Yaacobi (January 18, 1935 – August 27, 2007) was an Israeli Minister, Alignment Knesset member, and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations. [Wikipedia]
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Israel, Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia
Israel will have a less conditioned ally, and with this new administration, the political scene of the Middle East may be transformed. This will stop Iran from bragging and showing its strategy of military allies (proxy armies), and finally, it will bring peace. Shalom. [José Galicot]
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International, Israel, Jose Galicot, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAThey return them to us broken but alive; it doesn’t matter, we will rebuild them. We have already done it before with the beating of the concentration camps; how many of them will we revive with love? [José Galicot]
OpEd: We Will Help the Hostages Rebuild Their Lives Read More »
Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Jose Galicot, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors
In its letter to President-Elect Trump and incoming administration designates, SCN cited the recent arrests of a Pakistani citizen trying to travel to the United States from Canada to undertake an attack on the Jewish community, a Mauritanian national who shot a member of the Jewish community on his way to synagogue in Chicago, and the arrest of an 18-year old Egyptian student at George Mason University who was planning an attack on the Jewish community, as well as the uncovered Iranian plot to assassinate American citizens, to include a journalist critical of the Iranian regime and President Trump. [Press Release]
Diana Golbi (January 16, 1992) is an Israeli-Russian actress and singer, the eighth winner of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol. Golbi is the third female participant to win the show (following Ninet Tayeb on the first season and Roni Dalumi on the seventh season). [Wikipedia]
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Israel, Jewish Celebrities, Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia