By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –After some difficult weeks in which my other half was obliged to attend to structural damage to property of ours caused by an incompetent contractor working for a neighbor, I managed to persuade him to book us a weekend in a hotel by the Dead Sea, so that I could
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Scattered Among the Nations by Bryan Schwartz, Joy Sand and Sandy Carter; Weldon Owen publisher, Visual Anthropology Press, 251 pages, cover price $60. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m going to rearrange the sequence of Bryan Schwartz’s narrative and photography book so that we can always travel toward the east, almost around the world,
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By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California–Even Noah’s Ark may not be able to withstand the deluge of desalinated drinking water created daily by the joint venture of Poseidon Water and the San Diego County Water Authority. Monday, December 14th, saw media, journalists, photographers and local politicians, flooding in to witness the grand opening of the largest
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Eva Trieger, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We SharePlan dropped to honor Hungarian anti-Semite BUDAPEST. Hungary (WJC) — Following an international outcry, plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honor of the late Bálint Homan, who drafted anti-Jewish laws prior and during World War II, were finally withdrawn. The City Council of Székesfehérvár voted against the proposal of the private Bálint Homan Foundation to
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — What did Mike Zof, an Israeli DJ and bar owner, do to celebrate the opening of the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, in Israel? A. Zof’s bar, located in Petach Tikva, is across the street from the local movie theater that is showing The Force Awakens.
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireDavid’s Sling defense system passes final test (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s David’s Sling missile defense system passed its final test and will become operational in 2016, the Defense Ministry announced Monday. David’s Sling is designed to intercept medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles fired from ranges of 40 kilometers (25 miles) to 300
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In recent days I’ve received e-mails from a right-wing settler arguing–with a supporting attachment authored by Moshe Feiglin–that the young men accused of killing an Arab family are innocent, have alibis, and are being denied their rights by the police and courts, Another e-mail from an American Jew, with a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel —If I were a progressive, left-wing liberal (I’m decidedly not), I might say the following: * BDS – you know, the byword used by us progressives to put Israel in its place – is going great guns. If you’ve forgotten, it stands for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel,
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Middle East, Steve KramerUnlikely Soldier: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army by Georg Rauch, Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As a nineteen year old male living in Vienna during World War II, there was no way Georg Rauch could escape being conscripted into the Nazi military machine. At first he thought
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — While we hear daily of terrorist attacks against Jews not only in the West Bank settlements and Jerusalem, and not only if they’re in uniform, but also against citizens going about their daily business in the center of the country; while international bodies pass all kinds of resolutions against Israel;
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Travel and FoodBy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — Benny Gantz is an Israeli general. When you look at him and you listen to him you have the same reaction. There’s a certain confidence, a polite swagger as he establishes himself behind the podium as the keynote speaker at the Federation Men’s event. There’s that baritone voice with enough
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For a creative and innovative Jewish man from the Boston area, Hannukah was always a great holiday — but with just one thing missing. That thing turned out to be “The Mensch on a Bench” and he created it. Meet Neal Hoffman, the 30-something interfaith dreamer with a
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Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA