By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Currently, Israel is in the midst of what might be called an operation or a mini-war. It’s been going on for several days, and came in response to threats from Islamic Jihad in Gaza to attack Israel. That came in response to Israel’s arrest of an Islamic Jihad activist […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – On August 4, StandWithUs launched its second national letter campaign to nearly 3,000 university leaders, highlighting five key issues of concern to Jewish students. The letter stressed the importance of fighting bias and discrimination against Jewish students as part of broader Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and social justice efforts
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — Israel enjoys a strong relationship with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that comprise the former Czechoslovakia. To understand the root of this special relationship, let’s go back over 130 years and focus on Tomas Masaryk. The name Masaryk may ring a bell, as streets in over half a
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Gedaliah Borvick, International, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — For more than half her 20-year tenure as a Democratic member of Congress from San Diego, Susan Davis encouraged the exchange of students from Jerusalem and San Diego, remembering that her own time spent as a young woman on an Israeli kibbutz was formative in her own life.