JERUSALEM (WJC) — Despite a rise of 7 % of the immigration to Israel from North America, aliyah from France to Israel this year will be more than double that from the United States, according to figures revealed by the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem. Based on the current pace, the number of French […]
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International, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— The health effects of air pollution are a major concern for urban populations all over the world. Children, the elderly, and people with impaired respiratory systems (such as asthmatics) tend to be especially sensitive to the impact of exposure to ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and particulate matter. A recent study
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–The oldest continuously running social welfare organization in Israel, Colel Chabad, is hosting its annual retreat for 260 orphans and widows this Chanukah. For the past ten years, Colel Chabad has organized a variety of therapeutic activities specifically designed for children who have lost parents in recent years, as well those
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — A cousin, Liz Halpern, sent to us “Candles,” the first video made by musician Erez Cohen, and we’ve been playing it from the bottom of the San Diego Jewish World home page since the early days of Chanukah. You can also access by touching your cursor here. With two
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Donald H. Harrison
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Evan Centanni makes maps. Global maps, regional maps, geopolitical maps, Middle East maps, conflict maps. trouble-spot maps. Based inthe American Northwest, Centanni grew up there and double-majored in linguistics and international studies at the University of Oregon. Welcome to Political Geography Now (www.PolGeoNow.com), Centanni’s brainchild of a website
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By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California –Did you hear the one about the rabbi, the congresswoman and the mayor who walked into a shopping center during the middle of the December holiday season and lit a giant menorah fashioned from balloons? No, it’s not a joke! It happened on Sunday, Dec. 21, the sixth
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: Over the years, freelance writer Judy Lash Balint has written numerous articles appearing in San Diego Jewish World, and now she has a new job as an English-language radio broadcaster from Jerusalem. We want to wish her lots of mazal, while passing on to our readers information about how you can catch her broadcasts about
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Aware that many people never get to hear or read the speeches made at the United Nations, the World Jewish Congress has distributed an address made by Israel’s Ambassador Ron Prosor to the General Assembly. It follows: Mr. President, I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of
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International, Middle East, USA
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 2006, Ronald Lauder (heir of the Estee Lauder cosmetic fortune) paid $135 million to the owners of “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” painted by Gustav Klimt. Commissioned by her husband, the painting was part of the art collection on display in their palatial home during the era of the glittering
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Travel and Food
CHULA VISTA (Press Release)–Representatives of Chabad, the Chaldean Community, and Latinos for Israel will be among those joining forces at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 28 for “A Night to Bless Jerusalem” at the South Bay Baptist Church, 960 Fifth Avenue, Chula Vista. Rabbi Mendel Polichenco, Chabad director for Mexico, will be joined by Mark Arabo
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was shocked and stunned by the senseless, execution-style murders of two New York Police Department officers by a man who reportedly expressed extreme hatred toward the police on his social media accounts just prior to the attack. Police say the gunman apparently carried out the killings earlier Friday in
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The US, Israel, and western Europe, along with a few other places that qualify as democracies are not like Rome in its period of decadence. There are no crowds at a Coliseum watching gladiators fight to the death, or captives sacrificed to hungry predators. Yet there is an element of
Israeli situation not as bad as the rhetoric Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—I’ve had the pleasure of being a journalist for more than 52 years, ever since my first byline appeared in the UCLA Daily Bruin in 1962. Over those years, I’ve interviewed more people than I can count and I long ago lost track of all the stories I’ve written. But
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A victory of the Herzog-Livni alliance in Israel’s elections next March would lead to serious negotiations that could result in the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Livni and Herzog aren’t only committed in principle to a two-state solution – i.e., a Palestinian state – but they have in the
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