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Charlene Seidle is J.J. Greenberg award winner

March 18, 2013

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation have congratulated Charlene Seidle as the 2013 recipient of the J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award. Seidle, Senior Vice President of the Jewish Community Foundation and Executive Director and Vice President of the Leichtag Foundation, accepted the award at the Jewish Funders Network International Conference […]

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013

Report: Israel to ask for U.S. military action on Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli leaders intend to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to act militarily to stop Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday. In return, the U.S. president will likely ask Israel to

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International

A biblical jam session in San Diego

March 18, 2013

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Retired symphony violinist Eileen Wingard gave members of her havurah (friendship group) from Ohr Shalom Synagogue a demonstration of that “old time religion” at her home Sunday evening, March 17. Wingard, a vegetarian, organized a potluck dinner assembled from fruits and vegetables mentioned in the Bible, ranging from lentil

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Donald H. Harrison

The tangled reality of government coalitions

March 18, 2013

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics does not operate like a Swiss watch. The image is outdated, but remains useful. The overwhelming majority of watches are electronic, run by batteries and tiny programs rather than by springs and cog wheels made and assembled by skilled craftsmen (or craftspeople) in Swiss villages. Word is that

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Hebrew-language public school to open in San Diego

March 17, 2013

By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO– When the fall term of the new San Diego Unified School District term begins, the first Hebrew Language public school in town will take its place among other charter schools. Kavod Elementary (http://www.kavodelementary.org) in fact will will be the first public Hebrew Language school on the west coast. A similar

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San Diego County

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 19, 1957, Part 4

March 17, 2013

Hadassah Slates Regional Meeting Here May 19-22 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1957, Page 7 Mrs. Gabriel Berg, Chairman of Hadassah’s 12th annual Southern Pacific Coast Regional Conference to be held at Hotel del Coronado, from May 19 through 22, has just issued a statement of plans for the conclave. There will be delegates from

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

From darkness of Britain to the bright light of Israel

March 17, 2013

By Lloyd Levy EILAT, Israel — What a tonic to escape for a few weeks from the darkness of Britain to the light that is Israel. Britain is dark, not merely because it is winter and the weather this winter has been dreadful, but dark in its growing anti-Semitism. Almost weekly in

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International, Lloyd Levy

U.S. college campuses are Israeli-Arab battle grounds

March 16, 2013

By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO — Local college campuses are an active battlefield in a global war to deligitimize Israel and shame its supporters. You could be excused for not knowing this if you don’t go to school, work in higher education, or are otherwise directly affiliated with one of the universities in town, but

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Travel and Food

‘The Odyssey’ at Grossmont not unlike a Passover seder

March 16, 2013

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — As we Jews get ready to gather around our seder tables to tell again the story of the biblical Exodus, 16 Grossmont College performers are enacting another famous journey of ancient times, that of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, hero of Troy, and long-lost sailor struggling to get

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Donald H. Harrison

Plurality believes President Obama antagonistic to Israelis

March 16, 2013

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Signs are not auspicious for Barack Obama’s coming visit. The front page of Friday’s Ma’ariv headlined a poll showing more Israel’s viewing him as antagonistic to Israel (38%) than as supportive of Israel (33%), and substantially more Israelis opposing a gesture toward the Palestinians in connection with the visit (51%) than

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

What to expect from the President’s visit to Israel

March 16, 2013

By David A. Harris WASHINGTON, D.C. — The upcoming visit of United States President Barack Obama to Israel has taken on a life of its own. Perhaps because the American leader did not travel to the Jewish state in his first term, even while visiting several nearby countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, or

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Middle East

Apocalypse when?

March 16, 2013

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — The term “armageddon” — the imagined ”final battle” before the end opf the world — comes to us modern Jews from a word found in the Christian Book of Revelation where the apostle John writes about a monstrous war, noting “And they gathered them together to the place

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Jewish Religion

Some trip tips for President Obama

March 16, 2013

By Ron Torossian NEW YORK — As CEO of a PR firm, we often brief clients prior to major communications endeavors, and with President Obama embarking upon his much-awaited Israel trip which is sure to attract major attention, wanted to offer ten tips to ensure his trip to Israeli is a success: 1: It is

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Middle East

When an Episcopalian minister helped this rabbi heal

March 15, 2013

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Regardless of its affiliation, a House of God is just that. Years ago, after a synagogue in Cleveland abruptly dismissed me as its spiritual leader, I discovered tenderness and healing in a regal old church. My daughter Sari and I were returning from what had been a pleasant—but

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Jewish Religion

Charlene Seidle is J.J. Greenberg award winner

JNS news briefs: March 18, 2013

A biblical jam session in San Diego

The tangled reality of government coalitions

Hebrew-language public school to open in San Diego

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 19, 1957, Part 4

From darkness of Britain to the bright light of Israel

U.S. college campuses are Israeli-Arab battle grounds

‘The Odyssey’ at Grossmont not unlike a Passover seder

Plurality believes President Obama antagonistic to Israelis

What to expect from the President’s visit to Israel

Apocalypse when?

Some trip tips for President Obama

When an Episcopalian minister helped this rabbi heal

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