Off-duty Israeli security guards now allowed to carry weapons (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A bill allowing off-duty security guards in Israel to carry weapons passed its final Knesset readings on Tuesday, with a vote of 21 lawmakers in favor of the measure and eight against it. The proposal, which aims to boost public safety amid […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Abu Ghraib was a prison in Iraq where sadistic US soldiers tormented and tortured Arab prisoners with no apparent purpose other than a gratification of what seemed like the Americans’ pathological desire to inflict humiliation, fright, and pain. Israel’s current brouhaha is not the same, except in the nature of
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Travel and Food‘The time has come’ for official Israel-Indonesia relations, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday in Jerusalem with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists who visited Israel as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israel and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, do not have formal diplomatic relations, but there
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori SAN DIEGO — Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said she has asked Taser International, which provides body cameras, to develop a system by which a police officer’s body camera automatically will turn on whenever he or she draws a gun from a holster. “They are working on
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Family Service, Mazon (The Jewish Response to Hunger) and now Democratic U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, ranking member of the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, are teaming up to help alleviate food insecurity among the families of the lower enlisted ranks of the military.
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Nelson Heller and Genine Rainbeau-Heart were the two featured poets at the Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices program Tuesday evening, March 22, at the Astor Judaica Library. With one of the original programmed poets absent due to illness, the open microphone segment was extended. The well-attended audience was rewarded with Rainbeau-Heart’s original
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, under their California-bred conductor, Kent Nagano, performed a virtuoso program at the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Music Center last Wednesday evening. Because the printed programs of the sponsoring La Jolla Music Society did not include biographical notes on the performers, Kristin Lancino, the new President and
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By Gerald M. Steinberg JERUSALEM — The revelations that the Israeli political organization Breaking the Silence (BTS) was gathering sensitive or potentially classified information on the IDF caught many Israelis – including me, a long-time critic of this fringe NGO – off guard. Like others, I knew that the handful of activists in this group
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Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I have been stuck between wanting to go everywhere and do everything and wanting to go nowhere and do nothing but stay home and read. If by chance I have a day without an appointment, it feels like a gift; I can actually take the time to
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I don’t write about every concert I attend, or even every book I read, for that matter. That would be boring and repetitive. However, there are some concerts (and some books) that I feel I really must share with anyone out there who might be slightly interested in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Among the most famous songs of the great Jewish composer Irving Berlin are White Christmas and Easter Parade. Bing Crosby introduced Easter Parade in the movie Holiday Inn in 1942. But Berlin first wrote this melody in 1917 with different lyrics. What was this original version of Easter Parade? A. Being With My Honey, including the lyrics “Days are
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LOS ANGELES (JNS.org) — Jewish actor and comedian Garry Shandling died Thursday at the age of 66, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said. Shandling is best known for working on the cable television comedy show “The Larry Sanders Show,” which aired from 1992-98. He began his entertainment career by writing for sitcoms such
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