Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori SAN DIEGO – Israel’s consul general for New York, Ido Aharoni, told a San Diego gathering of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on Sunday, May 1, that arguing with the supporters of BDS is a sterile exercise, not likely to influence the 95 percent of the […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Persoff
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Travel and Food
By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE — The ESRA organization for English speakers (esra.org.il) had a beautiful hike in Ramat (hills of) Menashe during the intermediate days of Passover. This is one of the two regions of the Land of Israel in which the ancient tribe of Menashe resided. (The other area is located in the
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Every government in Israel, irrespective of ideological orientation, has declared its commitment to peace with the Palestinians. But peace comes at a cost: the Hebrew word leshalem (to pay) has the same root as the word shalom. Israel’s cost of peace with the Palestinians would inevitably entail giving up
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International, Middle EastThanks to an agreement San Diego Jewish World entered into with RepubHub, involving the exchange of articles with other news organizations, San Diego Jewish World greatly expanded its coverage during April 2016– so much so that in a single day or two, SDJW provides more Jewish news than can be found in some Jewish magazines
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San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Joe Spier CALGRARY, Alberta, Canada–Look to the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Superman, the most famous comic book, radio, television and movie superhero. He is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He is also
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Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Fifteen years after their liberation from Auschwitz, three female survivors have found each other and decide to celebrate their reunion at the French beach resort of Berck-sur-mer, in To Life, a film by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. Although the women want to simply enjoy the moments, their repressed memories from
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Campaigning does not bring out the best. There is much said and written by candidates, their supporters, opponents, and commentators. Who knows what is important, crucial, and trivial, when all fabricate, dissemble, obfuscate, temporize, and lie, and much of what the victors actually do will depend on details that develop
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International, Ira Sharkansky, USA
When cruise ships dock at Ashdod, and passengers disembark for a look at Israel’s fifth largest city, their first stop is often Yona’s Hill (Givat Yona). For it is on Givat Yona, today the site of a delightful overlook, that the prophet Jonah was buried well over two thousand years ago. True, tradition places his
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Middle EastAs Passover and Shabbat end tonight, people across Israel are celebrating Mimouna. Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) is taking part in the festival at the Dahan home in Yavne, along with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Gamliel spoke to fellow attendees, saying that “the festival of Mimouna, in which the doors
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastSoothing rattled nerves of secularists in Turkey, who were irked by comments the speaker of the Parliament made Monday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu made reassurances Wednesday that its new constitution will guarantee secularism. The speaker, Ismail Kahraman, had appealed for a religious constitution for the Muslim-majority nation. In a televised speech, Davutoğlu said: “Secularism will
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Middle East
A mysterious virus that has decimated tilapia fish stocks in Ecuador and Israel has finally been identified by an international team of scientists. The virus, dubbed tilapia lake virus, was long suspected to be behind mass die offs of valuable farmed tilapia in Ecuador and Israel since 2009. In a paper published in the journal
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” This iconic Cool Hand Luke quote seems to be the rallying cry of the Republican National Committee as it attempts to whip the disparate caucuses of the Republican party into accepting the inevitability of Donald Trump’s nomination as the party’s presidential candidate. Some of the most powerful
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USAFor background on this newspaper, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharq_Al-Awsat LONDON – Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn who is a close ally of party veteran Livingstone stated late on Friday that he would recommend a new code of conduct explicitly banning anti-semitism and other forms of racism. Noting that Britain’s opposition Labor party has launched an inquiry into
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