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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy Award®-nominated documentary feature 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, co-directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, returns to theaters in select cities by popular demand. The film is also available on DVD, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Amazon and VOD outlets making it the most widely available of all the films nominated in the Documentary Feature category of the 85th Academy Awards®. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please...

GLASGOW, Scotland, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A hospital in Nazareth, owned and operated by UK Christian charity, The Nazareth Trust, has become the first non-Jewish organisation since the creation of the State of Israel to receive the annual Chairman of the Knesset Award (Knesset is the Parliament of Israel). The hospital, known locally as 'The English Hospital', received the award for demonstrating a positive, national impact on the country, its cross-community...

Election-Night Polls of Jewish Voters Show Strong Backing for President, Democrats and Two-State Solution MEDIA TELEBRIEFING with Pollster, Today, Nov 7(th) at 1PM WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A five-year campaign to sway the historically loyal Jewish Democratic voting bloc, backed by tens of millions of dollars, failed dramatically, according to 2012 election-night polls of Jewish voters nationally and in Florida and Ohio. President Obama's 70 percent of...

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey of Jewish voters in the battleground state of Ohio reveals that 64 percent will choose President Obama, and 29 percent will vote for Governor Romney on Election Day. It is the third and last in a series of pre-election polls of American Jewish opinion. The others were a national survey and a separate poll in Florida. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Each survey...

President Obama’s middle name, Hussein, makes Israelis - both Jewish and Arab - perceive him as less pro-Israeli, reveals a new study conducted by the University of Haifa and the University of Texas. The study has just been published in the journal Political Behavior. “Even though the Israeli public has extensive information about the American President and his positions, their opinions can still be swayed by cultural cues, such as a name that in this case is perceived as Arabic,” says...

Ethnic and political violence in the Middle East can increase violence in families, schools, and communities, which can in turn boost children's aggressiveness, especially among 8-year-olds. Those are the findings of a new study that examined children and their parents in the Middle East. "The study has important implications for understanding how political struggles can spill over into the everyday lives of families and children, and suggests that intervention might be necessary in a...

NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mike Huckabee - who will address the biggest conference countering the expected Israel-bashing-fest at the UN's Durban III "anti-racism" gathering Thursday - said today that the world body is dabbling in "politics dressed up as human rights." Huckabee will join 17 other top names - among them former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel - at the day-long "counter conference" titled "The Perils of...

Israeli Arabs and Jews now living longer than Americans and other OECD membersA new study conducted by a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) for Jerusalem's Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel reports that Israeli's have a higher life expectancy on average than Americans and residents of other OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries.According to the most recent data, from 2005, the average American life expectancy is now 78 years;...

As another round of talks continues between Israelis and Palestinians, a new University of Michigan study documents the impact the violence has been inflicting on the region's children.Palestinian and Israeli children not only suffer the direct physical consequences of violence, they are also being psychologically scarred by the high levels of violence they witness, according to the study, presented earlier this summer at the International Society for Research on Aggression.Nearly 50 percent...

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- While local, national and global headlines focus on the conflict between cultures in the Middle East, when it comes to children and their innate human nature, race, religion and the company they choose to keep, it isn't political. Beginning Aug. 9, a group of 28 culturally diverse and united Israeli children (ages seven to 17) - 14 Arab and 14 Jewish - with life-threatening cancer will travel from Israel to Orlando for an escape from their everyday life...