For the full episode with Deborah Lipstadt, visit: https://allinclusivepodcast.com/podcasts/s04-ep25-confronting-antisemitism-series-part-i/ [All Inclusive with Jay Ruderman]
Lipstadt: Disproportionate Criticism of Israel is Antisemitism Read More »
International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
People often ask me how Israel copes with climate change. Yet Israelis don’t look to cope; they look to solve. When Israelis wanted faster computers, they invented the Intel microchip. When they were tired of missing phone messages, they invented voicemail. And when they were fed up with peak-hour traffic, they invented Waze. As the world faces the behemothic challenge of climate change, tiny Israel—a country the size of New Jersey—could serve as a light unto the nations to solve this macro-environmental crisis. [JNS.org]
Lizerbram: Israeli Technology Can Help the World Solve Climate Change Read More »
Middle East, The World We Share, USA
The shekel is strong. The dollar is weak. What does that mean? Commentary here puts the blame on high investments from overseas in Israel, especially in high-tech. It also means that Israeli purchases in the US, or in dollar-linked countries–including Israeli travel overseas, are cheap. But Israel exports to the same places aren’t as profitable as usual. There are fewer dollars coming into the country in exchange for what’s exported. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
Israeli Shekel Increasing in Value Against Other Currencies Read More »
Business & Finance, International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Ira Spector, who contributed more than 30 columns to this publication on subjects including his childhood in Brooklyn, his service in the Coast Guard, his extensive travels, interesting personalities he had met, and his flamboyant tennis game, died Oct. 14, just four days shy of his 88th birthday. [SDJW]
Ira Spector (1933-2021) Read More »
International, Lifestyles, Middle East, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Just after 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, a 92-year-old woman was riding in a car with her daughter and granddaughter near the train station in Modi’in when she suddenly lost consciousness. Her conscientious daughter and granddaughter pulled the car over and called emergency services for help while attempting to perform CPR on the elderly matriarch in the car. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Noemie Dray was at her home in Modi’in when the emergency took place. Noemie was asleep after a late-night shift in the Pediatric Ward of Sheba Hospital where she works when she isn’t attending classes. Noemie heard the alert from her emergency communications device, got up, and ran out of the house, without even having time to change clothes. [United Hatzalah]
No Time to Dress: Lifesaving Rescue Made in Pajamas Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
A new Tel Aviv University study has found that due to the temperature difference across the Mediterranean Sea, species of marine animals such as fish, crustaceans and mollusks (such as squid) are changing their habitats to live tens of meters deeper in cooler waters. [Tel Aviv University]
Global Warming Force Sea Life to Go Deeper Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share
By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) The Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command has recently practiced the evacuation of a hospital in northern Israel under a heavy missile attack during a simulated war in order to create space in the hospital for treating wounded civilians and military members. The drill was conducted as part of the Home
IDF Simulates War Scenario for Medical System Read More »
Middle East
A friend in the US recently asked me what I thought about Israel’s new government. My replay: It’s a government! Finally, after four elections in two years, the victory of a wide-ranging coalition government last spring meant that there was a good chance the election frenzy would end. The prerequisite for the government’s survival was to pass a budget before mid-November. If not, new elections would be scheduled and the government would be reduced to “caretaker” status only. [Steve Kramer]
At Long Last, Israel Has a Working Government Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel stepped up its public opposition on Saturday to a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to reopen a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, suggesting such a mission should be in the occupied West Bank. Under former President Donald Trump, Washington delighted Israelis and outraged
Israel suggests U.S open consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, not Jerusalem Read More »
Middle East
Published by DPA The 84-year-old Rabbi Israel Meir Lau is to remain chairman of the advisory board of the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for another four years. The Israeli government approved a request to this effect by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday, according to his office. Lau is Israel’s former chief rabbi.
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau to remain chair of advisory board of Yad Vashem Read More »
Middle East
Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) San Diego is pleased to announce that local JNFuture President and Community Campaign Chair, Kayla Globerson, has been accepted into the World Zionist Organization’s prestigious Zionist Leadership Academy. A joint initiative of JNF and the World Zionist Organization, the Zionist Leadership Academy is an intensive 10-month program for young professionals widely influential within their respective Jewish communities designed to train and develop a cohesive team of talented Zionist leaders who can play a significant role in their communities. [Jewish National Fund]
Kayla Globerson Chosen for Zionist Leadership Academy Read More »
Middle East, San Diego County, USA
Following arrest warrants being issued and public death threats made against many of the 300 Iraqi Muslim leaders calling for their government to make peace with Israel at a conference held in late September in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Jewish activists of Iraqi origin are voicing support for those in Iraq who seek peace with Israel. “It is depressing that the conference participants have been bullied in this way,” said Lyn Julius, a Jewish activist of Iraqi descent and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa based in the United Kingdom. “They were very brave to have taken part in the first place but may have underestimated the risks they were taking.” [JNS.org]
Threats Made Against Iraqi Muslims Who Urged Peace With Israel Read More »
Middle East
The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the people-to-people network of Jewish communities from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries that are developing Jewish life in the region, facilitated the first Jewish wedding in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 52 years this past weekend at the Ritz-Carlton in the capital of Manama. [JNS.org]
Bahrain Holds First Jewish Wedding in 52 Years Read More »
Lifestyles, Middle East
During my daughter Harriet’s recent visit from Portland, Oregon, I suggested we visit the Chula Vista Public Library to see the Holocaust Exhibit arranged by our friend, Sandra Scheller. Harriet teaches Middle School Humanities at the Portland Jewish Academy and one of her classes is learning about the Holocaust. The drive down from University City was under 25 minutes. Both of us found this visit profoundly worthwhile. Sandra met us there and gave us a private docent tour. [Eileen Wingard]
Visit to Holocaust Exhibit Impresses Mother and Daughter Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Jewish History, Middle East, USA