SAN DIEGO — Thanks to expanded coverage agreements, San Diego Jewish World presented the works of 150 journalists, poets, photographers and short story writers during the month of May. It was common this month to see as many as 24 Jewish-oriented stories in SDJW’s daily report, providing more such coverage than any other publication in San […]
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Travel and FoodBury Park in Luton is often viewed as a hotbed of Islamist extremism in the UK, and perhaps with good cause. Numerous terror suspects have come from the town, which has also seen clashes between far-right demonstrators and Muslim locals. So it might not seem like the wisest site for Zionist activists to set up
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InternationalBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Miley Cyrus who believes Donald Trump is a “F—king nightmare,” has said she’d “move out da country” if Trump wins. But wait there’s more. Far more. And in an age of positive psychology, meditation, gratitude journaling, “Namaste-ing” each other, and of course the multitude of mindfulness practices in
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Michael Mantell, USABy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO– The BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel) continues to gain support among bewildered college students, naïve church groups and anyone who really chooses to learn nothing from history. It is a new variation of the old Czarist technique of wreaking havoc against the Jews. In this incarnation, it
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Jewish HistoryBy Howard B. Kaplan He was old, a stooped man with coarse skin and a yellowing face blotted with patches of a thorny white beard. The jagged lines surrounding his eyes creased into deep folds, and his nose looked as if were partly squashed, and partly shaved into a fine point. There he sat on
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Travel and FoodPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a video message on Tuesday, in honor of the Building Bridges Not Boycotts international summit at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The summit seeks to fight the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. “You should fight BDS – but not because it’s gonna [sic]
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Middle EastIsrael’s Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the demolition of the home of Murad Bader Abdullah Adais, who stabbed to death a Jewish mother in front of her children last January in the Judean community of Otniel. Dafna Meir was repeatedly stabbed as she fought desperately to prevent the young Arab terrorist from entering her house
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Historian Joellyn Zollman says whereas lectures about “Jews and the Civil War” or “Jews and Synagogue Gift Shops” may appeal to a segment of the Jewish audience, her lecture series about “Chosen Food, which really looks at Jewish food as a way of understanding Jewish culture and life”
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Fun & Games by David Michael Slater; Zharmae Publishing, La Mesa, California © 2016; ISBN 978-1-943549-58-0; 246 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Jonathan Schwartz has a common Jewish name and, one might think, a not uncommon adolescence as he and his friends binge drink and talk about hoped-for sexual encounters with hot girls.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonMK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) had harsh criticism for the Israel Police on Monday at a discussion in the Knesset on police violence against Israelis during protests, searches of detainees and even while handing out traffic tickets. Eichler related specifically to police violence against the haredi community which, he claimed, routinely takes place and
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Middle EastGaza City (dpa) – Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling Gaza, executed three Palestinians Tuesday, whom it had earlier convicted of murder. “The three men were executed early on Tuesday morning by shooting and not by hanging,” said a statement by the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, adding that “it wasn’t a public execution.” Only representatives
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Middle EastOn Friday, Paris will host a Middle East peace conference. It was initially proposed by French prime minister Manual Valls May 21-24 during his visit to Israel and the Palestine territories. The meeting was delayed for four days so that US secretary of state John Kerry could participate. The Egyptians said they are very interested
The Ethiopia-Israel consultative meeting is said to be important to navigate ‘inexhaustible’ potential areas for cooperation between Ethiopia and Israel. The two countries held a joint consultative meeting here in Addis yesterday ahead of the planned high-level visit between both countries next month. Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Israel Hilawe Yosef said that the consultative meeting focuses
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International, Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a delegation of visiting U.S. congressmen on Monday that an agreement on reconciliation with Turkey is very close, Haaretz reports. However, officials in Jerusalem are still waiting to set the decisive meeting between the two negotiating teams during which the remaining disagreements are meant to be closed. Israel and Turkey
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