By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We can wonder if anger or pity should be our response to an item that has gone viral. It shows a young Jewish woman who reached a top place in Bernie Sanders’ campaign–his Jewish outreach director–expressing a hatred that goes over the boundaries of pathological. In a Facebook screed, Simone […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — David Amos and the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) tackled a difficult program when they chose to play an All-Rachmaninoff concert. The post-Romantic music produced by the great Russian composer is complex and challenging. Still, with an excellent piano soloist, SDSU’s piano faculty head, Karen Follingstad, extra coaching of
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Fairy Tales (nonfiction) by James Josef Allina; PublishAmerica (c) 2013; ISBN 9781462659692; 182 pages, $13. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —Fairy Tales is a two-part memoir. The first part, in the voice of the author’s uncle, Josef Benesch, focuses on living conditions for Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany The second
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas
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Travel and FoodWill Vermont Sen. Bernie Sander’s meeting with the Pope change the numbers? Will Sanders’ tougher line of Israel which actually mirrors an emerging (young versus) old split among American Jews change the numbers? Tuesday will tell, but the latest poll from New York shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton widening her lead: Hillary Clinton
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USAThe information Jonathan Pollard obtained while spying for Israel in the 1980s continues to be deemed “top secret,” and could still cause real damage to American national security, Channel 10 reported Friday, citing a written statement by US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. According to the report, Clapper, in a document he submitted to
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Middle East, USA
Active in Israel for over half a century, Motorola Solutions, the non-cellphone “twin” of the legendary electronics firm, announced that it was opening an innovation center in Israel. The company already has several hundred employees at a research and development center in the Tel Aviv area, which aims at finding and developing deals with Israeli
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Middle East, USAThe conditions suffered by Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank are “shameful and a disgrace to the State of Israel and to the security establishment,” Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said Friday. Ariel, best known for his fiery right-wing rhetoric and his insistence on Jewish rights to the Temple Mount, told Tel Aviv Radio
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Middle EastIn many ways, Bernie Sanders is similar to a typical Jewish-American millennial. Like most young American Jews, Sanders does not see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a top priority. Also like many young American Jews, when Sanders does talk about Israel, he acknowledges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is far from perfect and says he wants to
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Several protests were held Friday in Cairo and other parts of Egypt denouncing a government plan to cede strategic islands to Saudi Arabia, witnesses and local media said. Police used tear gas to break up anti-government rallies in at least three areas in the city of Giza near Cairo, according to reports
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Middle EastHouse Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that, during his recent trip to the Middle East, he heard many complaints about President Barack Obama”s leadership, Politico reports. Days after ruling himself out of White House contention, Ryan discussed his recent tour of the Middle East, which included a stop in Israel, and echoed complaints from foreign
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Travel and Food
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The Jewish holiday of Passover is coming, and that means a chance for Republicans to pick up some badly needed GOP convention delegates. Yes, in this street brawl of a nominating process, every delegate matters. And since delegates often are awarded according to a candidate’s showing in each congressional district, that means
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USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_J._Cobb
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Travel and FoodThe remains of Jews murdered during World War II and found in the Danube river in 2011 were buried in Budapest on Friday, laying to rest a long-running saga over their identity and cause of death. The bones, some pockmarked with bullet holes, are now thought to have belonged to Jews shot on the banks
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