By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California -“When summer camp ends, you miss the friends you’ve made for about a week. When Hands of Peace ends you miss those friends forever, “said Itamar, describing his experience of the dynamic dialogue-based program that has one agenda: to develop open-minded young leaders who want to be a catalyst for […]
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Eva TriegerBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Angered that the Senate passed a “clean” bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, House Republicans proposed a three week funding extension of DHS expecting that ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other Islamic terrorist groups will be defeated by interim but then voted against the measure. Apparently, John Boehner prefers
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University for 18 years and holder of the Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History there for 24 years, I was outraged by the Horowitz Center designation of SDSU as one of the top ten anti-Semitic universities in the United States.
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationJeb Bush to Israeli newspaper: U.S. approach to Iran nuclear talks ‘inexplicable’ (JNS.org) Former Florida governor and expected Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said in an interview with Israel Hayom published Friday that the Obama administration’s approach in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran is “inexplicable.” “It is inexplicable to me,” Bush said. “The administration
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — As the popularity of cycling continues to increase across the world, Israel is working to develop cycling trails that make the country’s spectacular desert accessible to cyclists. This week, the southern segment of the Israel Bike Trail was inaugurated on February 24 and offers for the first time a unique uninterrupted
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Once a month I teach a class at La Vida Real, a senior living community in Rancho San Diego. Several Tifereth Israel members live there. This week I began to speak about Purim beginning with the special maftir we read from the Torah this week. This maftir is
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International, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Women’s Philanthropy Division of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County is orchestrating a community wide art drive, dubbed Art from the Heart, in recognition of this year’s International Good Deeds Day, which will come to full fruition on March 15, 2015. Through collaboration with several community partners, Federation will
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –What is Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Patricia Arquette’s Jewish connection? A. Her paternal grandfather Cliff Arquette (also known as Charley Weaver) was Christian, her father was Muslim, and her mother was Jewish. She and her four siblings (all actors) were raised with no religion. She is the
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– The concept of failed states has been around for a while, and has recently been morphed into the notion of fragile states. Perhaps the change is an expression of what is deemed politically correct in the halls of organizations that worry about such things, and claim to provide ranked lists of
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JERUSALEM (SDJW) — An arsonist set fire on Thursday, Feb. 26, to a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem, prompting condemnation from the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin and others. Rivlin spoke by phone with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and expressed his sadness and shock at the arson and graffiti attack on a building within the Greek
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By Boaz Bismuth/Israel Hayom/JNS.org Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-debated March 3 address to a joint session of Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat, former U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the focus on protocol and the speech’s venue, rather than on the content of Netanyahu’s message, “plays into the hands”
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — The Medrash tells us about the wicked king, Yerovom ben Nevat, who began his career as a righteous king but turned evil. Hashem had ordained him to split from the Kingdom of Judah, and form a separate kingdom called Kingdom of Israel of which he would be the
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