By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Israel is currently greatly benefiting from not having a foreign minister. Avigdor Lieberman, who helped Prime Minister Netanyahu to do badly in the last general election by joining forces with him, is currently otherwise engaged as a defendant in a criminal case. Netanyahu seemingly bound to keep the job open for […]
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Middle EastPalestinian terrorist kills father of five (JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist killed a 31-year-old resident of Yitzhar on Tuesday morning at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, Israel Hayom reported. The victim, named as father of five Evyatar Borovsky, was the first Israeli to be killed in a terror attack in Judea and Samaria since 2011. A
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InternationalWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, on Tuesday, April 30, released its 2013 Annual Report. The Report highlights the status of religious freedom globally and identifies those governments that are the most egregious
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– There is a lot of tantalizing stuff buzzing around our ears and in front of our eyes, depending on whether we are hearing or reading what might be called the “news.” The problems are that some of the news may be disinformation coming from official sources, some comes from unreliable internet
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Question: I want to plan ahead for retirement and want to know how much I need. I’ve heard numbers anywhere from $3 million to $5 million. Answer: I am famous for giving 2 answers and this time is no exception. Before giving any answer, please know that it is
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – An internist and instructor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has conducted research proving that specially trained dogs can differentiate the smell of breast cancer cells from non-cancerous cells in cell cultures. The concept of using the sniffing ability of dogs to detect cancerous cells first emerged a decade ago
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — A debilitating mental illness, schizophrenia can be difficult to diagnose. Because physiological evidence confirming the disease can only be gathered from the brain during an autopsy, mental health professionals have had to rely on a battery of psychological evaluations to diagnose their patients. Now, Dr. Noam Shomron and Prof. Ruth
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Science, Medicine, & Education
Netanyahu called ‘Churchill of our times’ (JNS.org) Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking at the annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, on Sunday warned that a nuclear Iran will threaten not only Israel but the entire world, and argued that sanctions alone are not enough to stop the Islamic Republic’s threat. Israeli Prime Minister
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InternationalBy Michael Kaufman Dear Mr. Harrison: Thank you for your kind words about my book, In One Era, Out the Other – A Memoir of a 20th-21st Century Jewish Life, (3/23/13) and your “enthusiastically recommend[ing]” the book. No less gratifying is your finding in the last chapter the “qualities we should attempt to inculcate in ourselves
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Jewish Religion
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — South of DZ Akins lies the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center, a sprawling complex with athletic facilities and a 500+ seat performing arts complex. This was the venue for Entrances & Exits, a dance concert presented by Grossmont College. There were nine different acts with nine different styles
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Eric George TauberBy Anav Silverman MERON, Israel — Over 200,000 people gathered Sunday, April 28, in the tiny northern town of Meron to commemorate the Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer, which marks the anniversary of the passing of the great mystic Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, and the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans. Police expected up to 400,000
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — My parents did not do everything right (nor have I) but I do remember the basic values of human dignity and the work ethic that they brought with them when we emigrated from Israel in 1962. This morning, at a car wash, I saw a thin Mexican man,
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Jewish Religion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–The exhibition currently on show at the Israel Museum reveals just a tiny fraction of the grandeur and ambition of King Herod, the Idumaean who once ruled Judea with some help from his Roman patrons. He was known mainly for his grandiose building projects throughout the region, most notably the Second Temple in
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Barack Obama has said that Syrian use of chemical weapons is a “game changer.” According to the lead paragraphs in a New York Times article, the President said “he would respond “prudently” and “deliberately” to evidence that Syria had used chemical weapons, tamping down any expectations that he would take
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East