By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — One might think Israel and the Arabs fought wars so that someone could be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize at its conclusion. Between 1950 and 1994, seven men received the Peace Prize for making peace in the Middle East. To this startling number Barack Obama might be […]
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QUESTION PERIOD—Brian Greenspun and Scott Goldstein listen to a question posed by an audience member at San Diego Jewish Film Festival Tuesday, Feb. 16, at Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla, California _________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story introduced to attendees of the San Diego Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USATEL AVIV (WJC)–Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and as such the highest military official in the United States, met in Tel Aviv with members of the IDF’s humanitarian delegation to Haiti. He told the Israeli soldiers: “The important work you did with your delegation will not be forgotten, not by
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Middle East, USACLEVELAND, Ohio (Press Release)–Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) has issued a statement signed by 9 Nobel Laureates and 3,100 faculty members from 33 countries condemning the expulsion of Ariel University Center from the 2010 Solar Decathlon in Spain and requesting reinstatement. Many of the academics who signed this statement, including scholars from
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –We may be forgiven if we decide that it almost doesn’t matter which political party is in power because the policies of them all end up being uncannily similar. Thus the softly-softly approach of President Obama that characterized his first year in office is becoming almost as tough as that
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Marker, the economic supplement of Ha’aretz, celebrated the first year of the Netanyahu government with a front page story comparing the prime minister’s promises and accomplishments. The headline deals with the most recent great idea, to extend rail and improved road networks to the far corners of this small
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Barbara Kay LONDON–As all doctors know, untreated gangrene in a single limb can spread quickly through the body and lead to death. The most effective way to halt the progress of gangrene is to cut off the corrupting limb, a necessary sacrifice for the greater good. As with bodies, so with scientific credibility. As
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALONDON (WJC) — Baroness Jenny Tonge, a senior member of the British opposition party Liberal Democrats, has been sacked as her party’s health policy spokeswoman in the House of Lords after she called on Israel to disprove allegations that its medical teams in Haiti harvested the organs of earthquake victims and sold them on for
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel radio announced that The Times of London was accusing Israel of “waging covert war across the Middle East.” The worry was that this would be the start of another campaign to condemn and delegitimize Israel, recruit support for boycotts of its exports and its academics, and arrange arrest warrants for officials
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — My reflections on the comments by Bradley Burston about the dangers of the political right in Israel (which has turned Prime Minister Netanyahu into a sort-of moderate unable to tame the hotheads) prompted a correspondent to ask how I myself see the situation. The fact that I wrote the
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Middle East, USAHAIFA (Press Release)–Exposure of the cultural aspects of Ethiopian Jewish immigration to Israel in the Israeli media has focused on immigrants’ cultural ignorance and ‘astonishment’ at their proving basic technological skills. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa. Immigrants from the former U.S.S.R., on the other hand, were
JAFFA, Israel (Press Release)–Two recent agricultural training workshops marked the first time Gaza farmers have taken part in Peres Center programs in over a year. In the first workshop, as part of the Peres Center’s “Strawberry Fields for Peace” project, Palestinian farmers from Gaza and the West Bank and Gaza Strip focused on strawberry
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the global leader of the breast cancer movement, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) during a ceremony at its National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Amb. Brinker received the ADL Americanism Award, which recognizes individuals
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Middle EastBy Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California – In the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell is being accused of being anti-Israel by his Republican opponents, who cite his votes in the House of Representatives to reduce aid to Israel and his early advocacy of a Palestinian state. In a direct email exchange with
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