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Jewish / News Briefs / Gulf States / UAE

American Jewish Committee Opens First Office in Arab Country

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Called “AJC Abu Dhabi: The Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding,” it will be led by former ambassador Marc Sievers.

Terrorism / Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey

Erdogan Happy to Return Award Given by American Jewish Congress

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

“He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun/That fool was the terror of Highway 101 - ‘ from the song “Black Denim Trousers.”

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Anti-democratic Effort to Bar Pro-Israel Voices in UCLA Govt Fails

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The UCLA judicial board handed Students for Justice in Palestine the latest in a string of defeats.

US / Government / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Power Pushing Israel’s Bid for Security Council

By JTA

Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, recommitted to securing Israel a tour on the U.N. Security Council after assisting its entry to a U.N. regional group. Israel last month became a member of the JUSCANZ regional group at U.N. headquarters in New York. JUSCANZ stands for Japan, United States, Canada, Australia, and […]

Israel / Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Media

Shushed and Booed, Podhoretz Walks Out on 92 St. Y Panel

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Ukrainian Jewish Leaders: Romania Unfit to Lead Holocaust Body

By JTA

Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with its own Holocaust-era culpability. Approximately 380,000 Jews were murdered in Romania-controlled areas during the Holocaust, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. “Romania’s actions prove it is not ready […]

News Briefs

UN: Ban Ki-moon Did Not Mean to Retract Statement on Anti-Israel Bias

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process Robert Serry attempted to clarify Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s seemingly conflicting statements regarding anti-Israel bias at the world body, stating that Ban did not retract his original statement confirming the existence of that bias. On Aug. 16, Ban told university students at the UN headquarters in Jerusalem, […]

Religious & Secular in Israel

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Facing Heated Calls For Change On Several Fronts

By Neil Rubin

WASHINGTON – The latest battle over religious pluralism in Israel has unleashed a new barrage of criticism and calls for reform aimed at the Orthodox-controlled Israeli Chief Rabbinate.

Global

Canadian Foreign Minister: 'We're Israel's Best Friend'

By Jewish Press Staff

At the end of a week in which the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination called for a boycott of goods produced in “illegal” Israeli settlements, including East Jerusalem, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird declared that "Israel has no greater friend in the world today than Canada." Baird was addressing the American Jewish Committee World Leaders Plenary in D.C.

Jewish / US / Politics

Poll: Obama Winning Back Jews

By Malkah Fleisher

Jewish support for President Obama has improved significantly in the last year and a half, according to a new survey by the American Jewish Committee .

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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