By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — Right now, as I write this, Laura Simon, 108, is lying in a bed at the Aviara Healthcare Center somewhere between life and death as her son, screenwriter and playwright Mayo Simon, sits besides her, contemplating, at age 86, the awfulness of becoming an orphan. There seems to
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS, Tennessee —When I returned again this week to this city of purple mists, hovering ghosts, and sudden ferocious rainstorms, the hole in my heart for my departed, adopted mother was real and dampening. Maxine Smith quietly died since my last visit (the only thing she ever did quietly); a ribald,
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USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM – On Saturday night, June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first official statement on the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers near the Hebron area that took place on Thursday. “I can’t share everything we know, but I can say: Our boys were kidnapped by a terrorist organization;
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Middle East
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I don’t live life. I tolerate it.” –Brad Zimmerman A job waiting tables is almost a given when you pursue a career as an actor. I’ve done it myself, so I knew I would appreciate this gig. This is one of those concepts where you say, “Dammit! Why
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and nine of her colleagues on Friday, June 13, sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to take immediate action to combat gender-based violence and improve the safety of women and girls in India. The Senators’ letter to the newly-elected Prime Minister
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International, USAWASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13, to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce
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USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two Jewish Democratic officeholders from Los Angeles – Congressman Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Richard Bloom – are in the thick of the controversy over whether it is either ethical or humane to keep orcas and cetaceans in captivity.
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — It is unusual for an orchestra to program an all-Jazz concert that is not designated as “pops music”. But this will be the situation for the 75-piece Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra concerts of June 15, 3:00 p.m., and 17th, 7:30 p.m., both at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Cohen Social Hall.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Amid the tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the kidnapping of three teenagers, one of whom has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, the U.S. State Department issued a routine announcement that Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, “will travel to Tel Aviv,
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―A California Superior Court ruled that tenure for public school teachers is illegal because it denies students access to quality education by guaranteeing tenured teachers their positions despite their teaching records. Will federal judges recuse themselves from hearing subsequent appeals of the case because they all hold lifetime appointments? *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced on Friday, June 13, her office has received a 2014 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo) for an innovative DNA project that is boosting prosecutions and jail time for defendants who commit multiple crimes. By integrating a real-time DNA database
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are going through another wave of demands that Israel take an initiative. According to this view, time is not on our side, and the status quo cannot continue. Looking at the prominent proposals, they differ significantly one from another, and all have a taste of having been made in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
CANBERRA, Australia (WJC)–Australian authorities have barred a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop from entering the country. Bishop Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia later this month but his visa was revoked this week, the ‘Australian Jewish News’ reported. The Jewish newspaper said it had contacted the Department of Immigration last week to alert them
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International, Jewish History
EFRAT, Israel (TNA) – Three Israelis have been missing since Thursday night, June 12. They have gone missing in the Gush Etzion area. Security forces have been conducting extensive searches to locate them. The three are young men in their late teens and early twenties. The three are feared to have been abducted by terrorists.
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