By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the space of an afternoon, Tifereth Israel Synagogue developed an enthusiastic corps of some 40 shofar blowers ready to sound off during Yom Kippur services Oct. 11 and 12. It all started when Olga Worm, a former president of the Conservative congregation’s Sisterhood signed up to blow […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, October 4, 2016 – Vice-presidential debates typically draw less interest than presidential debates, and they don’t swing elections. For that, Hillary Clinton should be supremely grateful. Clinton’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, came on like a high school sophomore debater. He raced to answer, interrupt his opponent, and cram every memorized talking point against
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USAEvery time Donald Trump was criticized during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, running mate Mike Pence had the perfect response: Who is this “Donald Trump” of which you speak? It was as if Pence had never met the man on the top of the ticket and was unaware that we now have video and audio
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Wednesday that reports that the Republican presidential candidate was displeased with running mate Mike Pence’s failure to defend him at the vice presidential debate are “absolutely not true.” Pence repeatedly declined to speak up for Trump during the debate Tuesday as Democrat Tim Kaine rehashed the long list
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USANobody expected the face-off between vice presidential contenders Mike Pence and Tim Kaine to be a scorcher. Both Kaine, the Virginia senator running alongside Democrat Hillary Clinton, and Pence, the Indiana governor joining Donald Trump on the Republican ticket, project a demeanor that’s more dad-next-door than street brawler. But as both running mates mounted their
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USAIsraeli tanks fired on Hamas targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to a rocket that landed in southern Israel earlier in the day, the army said. According to Palestinian reports, the IDF tanks struck sites in Beit Hanoun, on the northeastern corner of the coastal enclave. The army would not immediately
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Middle EastIndiana Gov. Mike Pence dismissed Donald Trump’s campaign stumbles in recent months as the missteps of an inexperienced politician who nevertheless has the business acumen to grow the U.S. economy and military. He did so as Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly demanded that Pence defend a campaign season that has been defined in part by
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USAThough best known for his ability to make audiences laugh, actor, writer and director Ben Stiller is hoping his latest effort will make people stop and think. Stiller published an essay Tuesday morning revealing that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2014. He was declared cancer-free in September of the same year.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHillary Clinton says she cannot remember whether she ever joked about killing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during her tenure as secretary of state. The former secretary of state was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, campaigning when a journalist asked her about a report that she once mentioned sending a drone to kill Mr. Assange, who has used
Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles of Wales, quietly visited his grandmother’s grave at a Jerusalem convent on Friday following his attendance at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres. Charles stopped at the Mount of Olives’ Church of Mary Magdalene before heading back to the UK, where his paternal grandmother Princess Alice of
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International, Middle EastA synagogue in Florida was vandalized on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, according to media reports. Amid the two-day holiday – which celebrates the creation of the world in the Jewish religion – vandals spray painted Sunday “Free Palestine” across signs and areas of the Chabad of Parkland synagogue in
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USABritish-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year”s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that “revealed the secrets of exotic matter,” the prize committee said. The three “opened the door” to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationJewish billionaire Ronald Lauder, who has been considered for many years to be a personal friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu, was taken for police questioning after he participated in Peres’ funeral, Channel 2 reported. The Israeli police requested that Lauder testify against the Netanyahu family. According to the report, Lauder, who is the president of
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Middle East, USAPRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Donald Trump on Tuesday seized upon President Bill Clinton’s criticism of some of the fallout from President Barack Obama’s signature health care law as “the craziest thing in the world.” Trump said Clinton was simply being honest when he said a day earlier that people who barely miss out on qualifying
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