By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, Caifornia — “They usually run the gamut from things that have family disruption to political themes to musical,” explained Joyce Axelrod in a phone interview about some of the plots in Shorts in Winter, a free San Diego Jewish Film Festival program on Monday, February 14 at Clairemont Reading [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian Jewish Community members feted on Australia Day CANBERRA, 26 January – Les Erdi and Tara Winkler, finalists for Senior Australian of the Year and Young Australian of the Year respectively have missed out on the top gongs. Legal academic Professor Ron McCallum, who is totally blind, was this week selected [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –While the news bulletins are focusing on street demonstrations in Egypt, there are five crucial points that are not being adequately explained. Firstly, it is meaningless to discuss whether the Army is sympathetic to the rioters or not . Maybe some individual soldiers are sympathetic, but the fact is that the Egyptian [...]
BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– “Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needs a miracle to survive the presidency,” according to Egypt expert, Yoram Meital, who is Chairman of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. However, he thinks that a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood should not be seen as a [...]
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In the nothing is too ridiculous category, al-Safir, the left-wing, Syrian-backed, pro-Hizballah newspaper, that the New York Times is now using as a reliable source on Lebanese politics, has a scoop. According to the newspaper, an Israeli security agent paid a Palestinian $3000 to put a poison pill in [...]
Jan 30 2011 | Posted in
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Regardless of what Emma Woodhouse does in the business of matchmaking, the fact that Patti Murin inhabits her body, makes the new Jane Austen’s “Emma A Musical Romantic Comedy” with lyrics and book by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun (“Bonnie and Clyde at the La [...]
Hearings Slated for Distribution of Funds Southwestern Jewish Press, September 30, 1955, Page 1 Organizations requesting allocations from the United Jewish Fund 1955 campaign have been invited to send representatives to an open hearing for the committee and members of the United Jewish Fund on Sunday, October 2, in the new State Ballroom of the [...]
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — The U.S. government doesn’t play favorites, even when it should. Israel came out with a report under international auspices on the Mavi Marmara/Gaza flotilla incident that corresponds to the evidence. The Turkish government had a report for which there is no evidence, accusing Israel of massacring Turkish citizens even [...]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In the ghetto of old we used to receive every piece of news with the question, “Is it good for the Jews or is it bad for the Jews?” The modern version is, of course, “Is it good for Israel or is it bad for Israel?” The question is [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League has called on the U.S. government to “unambiguously declare” that it would veto a United Nations Security Council Resolution on the issue of settlements if it is presented to the council for a vote. The resolution, being promoted by the Palestinian Authority, is the latest step in an escalation [...]
Jan 28 2011 | Posted in
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