TEL AVIV (Press Release)― In many areas of the world, including California’s Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use “cloud seeding,” a weather modification process designed to increase precipitation amounts by dispersing chemicals into the clouds. But research now reveals that the common practice of cloud seeding with […]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –This is a story that benefitted from the weekend; much of Friday’s rush to judgment was wrong. First reports had the printer cartridge as a fake causing several experts to claim it was a “dry run” for later bombs; the addressees were synagogues and Jewish organizations in Chicago, which some
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Shoshana BryenSAN DIEGO — It was horrifying to read about the wanton attack on a Catholic Church in Baghdad in which more than 50 people were violently slain and even more were injured. I’m sure I speak in behalf of the entire Jewish community in offering heartfelt condolences to the large Chaldean community of San
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–On rare occasions it may be appropriate to assert that “everybody is crazy but us.” The risks are considerable. Asylums are crowded with individuals who say the same. Not everybody but us is crazy. We have friends who admit that they agree with us. And we suspect (or hope) that others who
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Noted Jewish Editor To Speak Here May 12th on Tercentenary Theme Southwestern Jewish Press, April 29, 1955, Pages 1, 6 San Diego’s Tercentenary Committee and the United Jewish Fund will act as co-host for the concluding event of the Tercentenary Year celebrating 300 years of Jewish life in
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the bombing in a public sqaure in Istanbul, which injured more than 30 people. She issued this statement: “The United States condemns today’s terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey, which brutally targeted innocent civilians in one of the city’s busiest squares. This is a shocking crime
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