Gaps remain between U.S. and Israel in security aid talks (JNS.org) Gaps remain between Israel and the U.S. in negotiations on a new 10-year memorandum of understanding for security assistance. America is offering annual aid of $3.4 billion, up from the current level of $3.1 billion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has asked […]
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Middle EastBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For Lee Schnaiberg in Montreal, global warming is no laughing matter, although the Canadian artist has a good sense of humor and the odd Yiddish phrase to make a point. I chatted with him the other day via email when he had just returned home from from his
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International, The World We ShareBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A recent visit with a young Japanese friend, a paratrooper in the IDF, provided an insight into the nature of Israel and other places. He said that fellow soldiers take him for Chinese or Korean, even though he explains that he comes from Japan. Israelis do a lot of traveling
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A few days ago a human rights organization made public a video after a terrorist attack on soldiers in Hebron that shows one of the soldiers shooting to kill a terrorist who had already been injured and “neutralized” (as the official term has it). The prime minister and the
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Middle East
Midnight in Berlin by James MacManus; Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press; ISBN 978-1-250-07949-4; 404 pages; $26.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This is a novel of political intrigue set in Nazi Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. The British military attache in Berlin, Noel Macrae, learns of Adolf Hitler’s
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonAn Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty Year Peace Mission, by Anthony David, Arcade Publishing, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Ruth Dayan was married to and then divorced from Israel’s General Moshe Dayan. Raymonda Tawil was the mother-in-law of Palestinian Fatah Chairman Yasser
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — They call themselves “a synagogue without walls,” which was especially ironic and heartening when I first was interviewed by the leadership ten years ago. My pastoral institute is called Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls and—once the meeting warmed into a promising new relationship—one of the officers teased me: “We
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After the blessings over the candles, grape juice, and bread, my wife, two of my grandsons, and I carefully sipped another glass of Welch’s Calcium 100% Grape Juice. In imitation of wine connoisseurs, we then cleansed our palates with water and availed ourselves of the new Welch’s Manischewitz
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Free agent Drew Ferris, who was a long snapper at the University of Florida for three seasons, has been signed by the Seattle Seahawks to a three-year-contract. Ferris had been a high school graduate from San Diego Jewish Academy, and is the son of Walt and Pam Ferris.
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Once again a high profile Islamic attack raises some crucial questions about Europe.. Key to understanding what is happening, and what is not happening, is a critical issue in the whole question of what has become of Europe since World War II. As a result of US encouragement, and European
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International, Ira SharkanskyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The current guttersniping between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump about their wives has descended so far into the bowels of the body politic that CNN plans to broadcast a debate between the two via colonoscope. * Microsoft launched Tay, an Artificial Intelligence robot that posts tweets based on what it
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satirehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser
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