By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — My readers know that I, as an expatriate American, am primarily concerned with how any prospective president views the Jewish state. There are many candidates running for the US presidency from both parties, all of whom have opinions about Israel and its relationship with America. In my last
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By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – A shipwreck, mistaken identities, a love triangle, grief and a gaggle of madcap players – Twelfth Night, running through July 26, kicks off the 2015 Summer Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe. The production in the open-air Lowell Davies Festival Theatre is wildly romantic, filled with vivid colors, lush
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-Californai ) voted for the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) to provide nearly $9 billion in mandatory funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to encourage biomedical innovation and research into new treatments and cures. The House approved H.R. 6 on a strong bipartisan vote of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Many of us well remember the campaign to bring back Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity in Gaza. His family and friends mounted an international campaign that put great pressure on the Government of Israel. In the end Gilad was exchanged for some 1100 Palestinian prisoners including those “with blood on
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Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The director of the Ein Afek Nature Reserve in northern Israel’s Acre Valley wetlands received international recognition recently for her efforts in restoring the man-made wetlands nature reserve. Giselle Hazzan, who is the first Arab woman to become a manger of a nature reserve in Israel, was awarded the
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The World We ShareBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France —Levi Koenig, A Contemporary King Lear is my third novel in as many years, and portrays a modern-day equivalent of Shakespeare’s protagonist. Mr. Koenig has his good and bad points, as do his three daughters, Gloria, Renata and Corinna (yes, the parallels with Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are intended). The three
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I recently read a book by Aaron David Miller entitled, The End of Greatness – Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President. Miller asserts that there have only been three great American Presidents: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. He also asserts that not
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — There was a fateful night in 1974, when the odious “Stars and Bars” flew aloft in the thick mugginess of the Southern night above a godless old Baptist church that didn’t have a prayer. I sang with my college’s men’s glee club, mostly classic vocals and many freedom
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USAIsrael won’t release terrorists in return for Israelis held in Gaza, official says (JNS.org) Israel has “no intention of releasing terrorists in exchange for the two citizens who entered Gaza,” an Israeli security official said Thursday after a gag order was lifted to reveal that two Israelis have been held by the Hamas terrorist group
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We couldn’t desire better lessons on the nature of the politics than we obtain from the simultaneous and competitive appearances of the Bibi and Barack twins at the heads of their governments. They are similar if not identical in their style, skills, limitations, and their reception by their own, one another’s, and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Like many Israelis, Asaf Hanuka and Boaz Lavie served in the IDF, meeting each other on the staff of an Army newspaper. Hanuka had learned to draw by copying comic books sent to him by relatives in Santa Monica, California. Lavie had studied screen writing at a special
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Latinos now outnumber non-Hispanic whites in California. Based on that statistic, all the television news networks project that any Republican candidate but Donald Trump will win the state’s presidential primary next June. * The talent agency that handled Bill Cosby has dropped him. All of his concerts have been cancelled. On
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The president — Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces — does not have to be a military man. Or maybe should not be a military man; a civilian perspective on issues of war is essential. But that being so, the civilian CinC should be wary of inventing military doctrine. President
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAHamas holding two Israelis hostage in Gaza since last September (JNS.org) The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been holding two Israeli citizens in Gaza captive for the last 10 months, one whose identity was revealed Thursday upon the lifting of a gag order by the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court. An Israeli man of Ethiopian descent, 28-year-old
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