Proposed Israeli bill requires NGOs to disclose foreign funding sources (JNS.org) Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is sponsoring a new bill that would force nongovernmental organizations to disclose foreign funding sources if they make up more than half their budgets. Shaked said Sunday that the proposed bill “follows publications and data indicating that a
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — While there is seldom a let-up in calls from the State Department, White House, or the New York Times that Israel must do more to solve the problem of the Palestinians, there is much less noise about the mess just over the US border with Mexico. There is considerable argument
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At Temple Emanu-El’s annual artisans’ festival, I met a painter who is a member of one of San Diego’s longstanding and well-known Jewish families, and a woodworking craftsman who just recently moved here from Kona, Hawaii, where thanks to his Jewish wife he discovered the joy of
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyJudaism Alive: Using the Torah to Unlock Your Life’s Potential by Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, Gefen Publishing House, New York; ISBN 978-965-229-652-8 ©2015, $18.00, p. 154, including an Appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Judaism Alive, written by Shlomo Einhorn, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, is a self-help book guided by the personal qualities of three
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Nov. 1, condemned remarks by an Austrian parliamentarian in which she heartily agreed with a comment posted on Facebook that “Zionists money Jews are the global problem.” Susanne Winter, a parliamentarian and member of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), wrote in response to an
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Jewish History8l Days Below Zero: the Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen Wilderness, by Brian Murphy, Da Capo Press, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Lewis and Sonia Crane immigrated from Tsarist Russia to the United States in 1913, leaving behind the terrors of the vicious pogroms and restrictions
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–When it comes to living really well, many confuse doing so with looking good, feeling good, or having the goods. This leads people to chase after such goods as spray tans, plastic surgery, drugs, virtual friendships, the mansion, making and spending as much as they possibly can, and erroneously
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Naomi Segal Bronstein died on December 23, 2010 at the age of 65 in her sleep at the orphanage she founded in Guatemala, a country of poverty and calamity. Her heart had given out. At the end, plagued by ill health, her body and mind weary, almost broke, only
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International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (SDJW) – San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose works appeared on our daily news website during the month of October. They were: Yael Aires Laurie Baron Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Morris Casuto Ben Cohen Richard L. Cravatts Toby Klein Greenwald Donald H. Harrison Natasha Josefowitz Rabbi Ben Kamin Steve
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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Ordman, San Diego County, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer
The Heatstroke Line by Edward L. Rubin; Sunbury Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-62006-626-3; 233 pages; $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our correspondent in Taiwan, Dan Bloom, who is a cli-fi enthusiast, has already written about this book, but when a copy came my way, I thought I’d check it out as well.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, The World We ShareBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒The Republican presidential candidates will meet this weekend to reform the formats and rules of the remaining presidential debates. Based on leaked memos from insiders in their campaigns, here are proposals the six leading candidates will submit: * Donald Trump: “Switch the program into a reality television show called “The
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Recent headlines have featured calls by an IDF General and the US Secretary of State, saying that Israel and Palestine must begin a political process in order to deal with a cycle of violence otherwise likely to get worse and last for a long time. Some in their chorus express a
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