The Jewish singers: Izhar Cohen
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Bulgarian prostitutes, drugs, and MK Hazan
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–This column is not about the great stuff circulating around Israel. It’s not relevant to the unhappiness of Jews with Israeli morality, or the more widespread animosity of goyim who qualify for contemporary conceptions of anti-Semitism. It’s about one of the littlest pischers in Israeli politics. The youngest Knesset Member who barely squeaked
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAJewish news briefs: June 12, 2015
U.S. Jews feel more warmly about Netanyahu than Obama, poll finds (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) American Jews feel more warmly about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than U.S. President Barack Obama, a new poll says. In the poll, commissioned by the left-wing J Street lobby, respondents were asked to quantify their feelings about the two
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International, Middle East, USAEmerald to address Tifereth forum July 1
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –City Councilwoman Marti Emerald, currently the president pro tempore of the City Council, will discuss issues facing San Diego as well as her career both as a broadcast journalist and as a public office holder, during a kosher dinner meeting sponsored by the Tifereth Israel Men’s Club and open to all. The
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CalendarJFSSD’s Jessica Nare honored in New York City
SAN DIEGO – The Hadassah Foundation, headquartered in New York, NY, awarded the Bernice N. Tannenbaum Prize to Jessica Nare, Director of Leadership Programs at Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS), in a June 8 ceremony at the UJA-Federation of New York The Bernice S. Tannenbaum Prize recognizes emerging professionals who have made innovative
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyDavis bill would extend school lunches to summer
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The arrival of summer can mean trips to the beach or a family vacation. However, for millions of low-income students who benefit from free or reduced-price school meals it can mean wondering where their next meal might come from, making hunger an unnecessary part of their summer months. To end
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Travel and FoodJewish news briefs: June 11, 2015
Birthright names 500,000th participant, launches ‘Tel Aviv Urban Experience’ (JNS.org) The Taglit-Birthright Israel program, which takes Jews ages 18-26 on free 10-day trips to Israel, on Wednesday named its 500,000th participant. During an event at Tel Aviv’s Wohl Amphitheater on Wednesday, Birthright’s founders, philanthropists Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman, met the milestone trip participant, 24-year-old
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International, Middle East, USAI-8 Jewish Travel: CalTrans District 11
-Eighth in a series- Exit 3: Taylor Street, San Diego — Wadie P. Deddeh State Office Building SAN DIEGO — No, Wadie P. Deddeh isn’t Jewish. He’s an Iraqi Christian, whose success in San Diego County rising from a professor at Southwestern Community College to a state Assemblyman and eventually to a state Senator was
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and FoodSibling rivalry: why religious groups fight each other?
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Speaking on Tuesday night to introduce his forthcoming book, Not in God’s Name, Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of modern Orthodoxy in Britain, argued that sibling rivalry is a fundamental cause of violence, also in religion. The Book of Genesis offers many telling instances – beginning with Cain’s
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastFrance, U.S. horse- trading over Israel’s security?
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes, if you smash two stories together, you end up with something interesting; sometimes you get something worrisome. This is one of the latter. The first story is about France, a member of the P5+1 negotiating a deal with Iran on nuclear capabilities. The French government has expressed increasing
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAPeace- seekers: Reject BDS, seek end of occupation
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — This column is being written on June the 7th, the 48th anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War which resulted in the occupation of the West Bank in Gaza. June the 7th was a day I will never forget. I was never so scared from
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Middle EastBen Gurion president honored by Queen Elizabeth
By Anav Silverman RAMAT GAN, Israel — An honorary Commander of the British Empire in the name of Queen Elizabeth II was conferred upon the President of Ben Gurion University, Professor Rivka Carmi yesterday. Carmi was honored by Buckingham Palace for her significant work in deepening academic and scientific links between the United Kingdom and
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