Photo Credit: Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr New research released Wednesday by AMCHA Initiative provides the first empirical evidence showing that faculty who support academic BDS are actively promoting this political agenda directly to students in their classrooms. The study (Bringing BDS into the Classroom), which examined 50 syllabi at 40 public and private colleges and […]
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Photo Credit: US State Department / Wikimedia US Embassy in Baghdad The sounds of rocket explosions sent people running for safe spaces in the US Embassy compound in Baghdad again late Wednesday night, and triggered air raid sirens as well. The Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah (PMU’s 45th Brigade) militia launched unguided rockets at the Green Zone. […]
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Photo Credit: Hashemite Royal Court King Abdullah II presents pilots’ wings to Princess Salma bint Abdullah II Jordan’s Princess Salma bint Abdullah II made history on Wednesday to become the first woman in the country to earn her wings as a military pilot. Clearly filled with paternal pride, the nation’s commander-in-chief, King Abdullah II pinned […]
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Photo Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf / Wikimedia A “black box,” also known as a flight data recorder. Iran is refusing to allow Boeing, or US National Transportation Safety Board investigators to have access to the flight data records that were recovered from the crash on Wednesday of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Tehran. The […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ordering your bar mitzvah boy’s tefillin so that they will be ready when you need them is an art form. A friend was sharing her disappointment that her son’s tefillin would not be arriving in time for him to put them on a month before his actual bar mitzvah, as is […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Jewish people’s third patriarch had three names: Yaakov, Yisrael, and Yeshurun. “Yaakov” is derived from the root ayin-kuf-bet, which means heel; the Torah tells us that he received this name because he was born holding onto his older brother heel (Genesis 25:26). Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]
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The new development is based on an electric laser, which is expected to produce a power of about 100 kW, the required distance to destroy miles of rockets, mortar shells, drones and anti-missiles. The Ministry of Defense has revealed on Wednesday that it is investing hundreds of millions of shekels together with Rafael and Elbit’s […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ever wished you could read someone’s mind or know what he or she is truly feeling? If that seems impossible to you – something that science fiction novels are made of – you might want to think again. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is working on […]
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Photo Credit: Google Maps The Gulf of Oman The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has barred American pilots and carriers from flying through the air space of Iran, Iraq, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, in the wake of Wednesday’s Iranian missile attack on two air bases in Iraq where American forces are […]
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[embedded content] US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday in a speech delivered to the nation at 11 am that “Iran appears to be standing down” – good news to those who had spent the dark hours till dawn chewing their nails and wondering whether World War III was finally about to erupt at last. [embedded […]
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