Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman, published 2009. By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — While framing the United States Constitution, the Founding Fathers learned a startling fact about themselves and the States they represented: they were all Christians yet they were unable to define what that […]
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There is something American about the most recent quarrel between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu. There are other things as well. A clash of strong egos, of the kinds required and nurtured by serious politics. And greatly different geopolitics. While Obama is required by his setting to play among the world leaders and
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s (CIJE) CIJE-Tech programs in San Diego and schools nationwide will add advanced 3-D printing and software design as part of the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program. Soille San Diego and the San Diego Jewish Academy will both offer the CIJE-Tech program with 3-D printing. The CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics made the startling discovery that cancer, like an enemy hacker in cyberspace, targets the body’s communication network to inflict widespread damage on the entire system. Cancer, he found,
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By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – What do you get when you combine delicious food, sustainable business, and charitable giving, spiced up with a little competition? Top Green Chef 2014! On September 30, the Port of San Diego Green Business Network hosted its annual cook-off at the SDG&E® Energy Innovation Center. Now in its third
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Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Most American supporters of Israel believe that the US government has high regard for Israel and that it considers the Jewish State a valued ally and friend. And why might that be? Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East. Israel shares “Judeo-Christian values” with America. Israel
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By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – Violence? Check. Despair? Check. A typewriter and toasters? Check and check. The trope of brothers feuding goes as far back as Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis. In Cygnet Theatre’s new production of playwright Sam Shepard’s True West, the story gains a new twist as the brothers,
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —A law firm in Long Beach has filed a class action suit against a company that operates 57 nursing homes in California, including five facilities in San Diego County. The lawsuit incorporated declarations from the state attorney general’s office in another case to contend that by understaffing nursing homes,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture begins its season of free lectures in Carlsbad and in Coronado with visiting Israeli scholar, Dr. Sariel Birnbaum who will speak on “The Image of the Jew in Arab Cinema”. His talk will takes place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If people make the world go round, words make the world go round, too. I mention this today because there’s an Indian gentleman named Anu Garg who now lives in America and runs a popular word maven newsletter, free of charge, for people who like words and word origins. Like
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Relax? Impossible. Too much is threatening. Daesh, whatever that is, is chopping heads and managing to evade the US air campaign (along with a few other participants providing 10 percent of the airstrikes), and imposing its draconian Islam across much of Syria and Iraq. Hamas says that it intends to do
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Elie Wiesel asks “Why?” In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate for peace since 1986, tells the story of a television interview in which he was asked what he would say to God if he could talk to him. His answer was
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Middle EastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “And how does that make you feel?” I asked David Ellenstein as we chatted in the rehearsal space of North Coast Repertory Theater. I, in the chair, notepad in hand, and David, director of “Freud’s Last Session” on the chaise. And so began our fifty-minute-hour interview about this imaginary
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (WJC) — The frightening situation of many Christian communities in the Middle East will be center-stage at events in Israel next week on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles, at which several thousand Christian pilgrims are expected to visit Israel, making it the country’s largest tourist event. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and World
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