SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s Turandot is the gift that keeps on giving that found this opera lovers heart pounding from the first sounds of conductor Edoardo Müller’s detail to Puccini’s music in leading the San Diego Opera Orchestra, to the exceptional way the large chorus, including a long procession of […]
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Both my American heart and Jewish soul are filled with admiration and prayers for the brave people of Egypt, the mother of nations, and the incubator long ago of Hebrew dreams and aspirations. Even more than in the parallel upheavals ongoing or brewing in Tunisia, Jordan, and even Yemen, the
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Travel and Food
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–It was a great rhetorical moment. President George W. Bush, speaking in Whitehall, succinctly and eloquently framed the problem of 21st Century Western policy in the Middle East: “(Britain and the U.S.) in the past have been willing to make a bargain to tolerate oppression for the sake of stability. Longstanding
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Shoshana BryenJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Simon Wiesenthal Center called upon the German authorities to make a final effort to bring to justice two convicted but unpunished Nazi war criminals living in Germany and to open the files of the BND (German Secret Service) regarding the postwar escape of notorious Holocaust perpetrators. In an op-ed piece published Monday in
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Congressional Research Service, trying to keep up with fast moving events in Egypt, has issued a background study guide for members of Congress on the crisis over President Hosni Mubarak’s continued rule:
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Travel and FoodFRESNO, California (Press Release) – Andrew Kerber, 22, of Chico, Calif., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill in Fresno, Calif., to violating the civil rights of congregants of Congregation Beth Shalom, a synagogue in Modesto, Calif. According to court documents, on or about Feb. 2, 2006, Kerber and two other men, Abel Mark
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USA
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– What Shimon Peres said to Angela Merkel on Tuesday, I heard from Jim Lederman the night before. The German Chancellor was paying a visit to Israel’s President as part of her brief stay in the country. She brought many members of her cabinet to Jerusalem for another joint session with her
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Middle East
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –Brooklyn College President Karen Gould today announced the re-hire of Kristofer Petersen. His appointment to teach a graduate course on the Politics of the Middle East had been rescinded last week, after a furor over his avid pro-Gaza writings, activism and slanted syllabus was brought to light. In her patently ridiculous
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (February 1, 2011) — The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) announced on Tuesday that it will host the upcoming visit of Governor and Mrs. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to Israel, February 5-9, 2011. This will be the second time that the RJC hasescorted Governor Barbour to Israel. The organization also hosted him in 1994, when
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Middle EastNETIVOT, Israel (WJC)–Missiles fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the Negev, near the towns of Netivot and Ofakim on Monday, causing damage to a car. Four people had to be treated for shock. The attacks happened only a few minutes apart. One Grad rocket hit Netivot, which is 9 miles east of Gaza, and
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Middle EastMike Huckabee Visits Israeli Knesset JERUSALEM (WJC) — World Jewish Congress Secretary General-Designate Dan Diker has called on Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and one of the candidates who in 2008 sought the Republican Party’s nomination for the US presidency, to lend his support to an international campaign for the referral of the
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) ― For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons’ offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just like a favorite celeb. But those albums only show how someone else’s liposuction, breast augmentation, or Beyonce bum enhancement turned
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Muhammad ElBaradei blatantly lied to CNN. Naturally, the reporter neither called him on it or followed up to ascertain the truth. Here he is talking about the Muslim Brotherhood ELBARADEI: “This is a myth that was sold by the Mubarak regime, that it’s either us, the ruthless dictators, or
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Middle East, USA