NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Hadassah Foundation, which invests in social change to empower girls and women in Israel and the United States, announced it has given $35,200 to the Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFSSD) for its Girls Give Back Program. Girls Give Back educates Jewish girls from the area about gender inequality, develops concrete
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San Diego County
–17th in a series– Exit 6, Texas Street, San Diego ~ District Office of U.S. Rep. Susan Davis By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between this city and Washington D.C. is approximately 2,690 miles, or a five-hour jet plane ride. Impractical to go back and forth every day between work in Washington and constituents
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s worth pondering at some length Barack Obama’s overlooking of Winston Churchill in his comment that he does not remember a case when a foreign official involved himself as much in American politics as Benyamin Netanyahu. Churchill was intent in bringing the United States into the European war, and it is
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Constituents living in the 53rd Congressional District will have a chance to get tickets to watch Pope Francis speak to Congress on September 24, 2015 as part of his visit to the United States. As she has done in the past for tickets to presidential inaugurations, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California will
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San Diego County, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Jews are the ultimate disruptors, and I mean that in a good way. Lately, we hear a lot about disruptive technologies: advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy. Well, it occurs to me that this is what the Jews have been doing since antiquity. We are
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Jewish History, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It would be so much easier to cope with things if God simply intervened and cleaned up all the messes. But where would that really leave us? The miracles described in the Bible are wonderful cartoons and they salve anxiety for a little while. They are imaginative dramas
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Jewish ReligionIsraeli officials reportedly meet with Egyptian counterparts in Cairo (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A delegation of senior Israeli officials visited Cairo on Tuesday for a series of meetings and discussions with Egyptian officials, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported. According to the report, which was based on information from senior Egyptian sources, the Israeli delegation
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International, Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: In the first part of this series, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, explained why he holds Israel responsible for civilian deaths in last summer’s Gaza War. In this second part, author Seth Moreida explains why he rejects many of Ascherman’s positions. -Second of a two-part series- By Seth Moreida
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Middle East
We are two—a couple, a double—but also a whole, a unit, one. We are sometimes opposites and sometimes parallels. Parallels that make it so easy, opposites that make it so exciting. We are opposites, but ones that complete each other. We are parallels, so close they are almost a line. We are from places far
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Incensed that Megyn Kelly had asked him an inappropriate question about sexist remarks he has made, Donald Trump commented: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever.” Journalists reported that the excrement flowing out of Trump’s mouth shows no signs of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireWashing the Dead by Michelle Brafman; Prospect Park Books; ISBN: 978-1-938849-52-7, $16. By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO — Michelle Brafman is a storyteller: an award-winning short fiction writer, essayist, blogger and former documentary filmmaker. A graduate of UCSD, she is currently based in the Washington, DC area, where she teaches creative writing at The Johns Hopkins MA in
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Not long ago I was invited to join a group on Facebook that goes by the name of ‘Yecke Yeckes, Hoppe Hoppe Reiter, Young Descendants of Yekkes Seeking to Preserve the Yecke Heritage.’ That’s more than a bit of a mouthful (and I had to have the site’s
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