By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Corporal Diego Tapia, 28, is not your typical IDF soldier. Born a Catholic in Bogota, Colombia, Diego discovered Judaism during his research in university, converted and immigrated to Israel. After completing tree years of study in Yeshiva in Jerusalem he enlisted in the IDF. Last Wednesday was a unique […]
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International, Middle East
By Sandy Golden SAN DIEGO — This was the third year I had walked in “The Friendship Walk”, which annually begins the day of the San Diego Community-wide celebration of Yom Hatz ma out”, Israel Independence Day. Why did I walk? I had chosen to participate in “The Walk,” for several reasons. Sunday, May
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San Diego County, The World We Share
NEW YORK (Press Release) –AJC is enraged by a Polish lawmaker’s claim that Holocaust-era restitution by Poland should cease. MP Slawomir Kopycinski, of the Europa Plus party, called the Regulatory Commission for Jewish Communities “the fourth partition of Poland,” and said the government body should be shut. “Mr. Kopycinski’s claims are specious and completely divorced from
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International
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)- For 10,000 Israeli basketball fans who filled the Mediolanum Forum Arena in Milan, Italy, as well as those who monitored broadcasts in Israel, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s win against Spain’s Real Madrid was a sweet victory. The championship game hit overtime with the final score 98-86, as Israel managed to cement a solid lead
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Sports & Competitions
Photo essay by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–As at any event celebrating Israel, there were precautions such as bags being checked by security personnel and uniformed San Diego Police officers walking the festival grounds, but for all that, the mood at Israel’s 66th birthday celebration on Sunday, May 18, was considerably upbeat. The wildfires that had plagued San Diegans
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Years ago, my elder daughter, graduating this week with an honors Master’s Degree from New York University, found herself once again treated like a vassal while working in the highly-pressurized, grueling environment of the city’s restaurants. Never one to shun hard labor and long hours, she and her
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USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — The Israel Ministry of Tourism is investing approximately NIS 10 million ($2.9 million) in marketing initiatives and infrastructure projects before, during and after the visit of Pope Francis to Israel, on May 25-26 May. The marketing investment is centered around the dedicated website for the Catholic Pilgrim (www.holyland-pilgrimage.org), including
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Adventures in SD History
SAN DIEGO — Broadcaster Ted Leitner is one of the 52 “most influential sports figures” selected by the U-T, and in a profile story, writer Stefanie Loh reports that Leitner prides himself for keeping his cool while doing Padres play-by-plays. “I’m not a screamer,” he told her. “I try to have as much enthusiasm in
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San Diego County
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–Over and above the scandal and shenanigans surrounding the prosecution, trial and eventual conviction for accepting bribes and betraying the voters’ trust by the erstwhile mayor of Jerusalem and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his associates is the very material existence of the building that lies at the heart of
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle EastThe Baroness: the Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Born with a fabled name and fortune doesn’t always give one a broad choice in life. For the women of the legendary Rothschild family it often meant living in a gilded cage. Prevented by the will of
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel is a fascinating place, a hot house of domestic and international pressures. The cities we recently visited in Italy are more peaceful, and the wine good and not expensive, but I’m too old to learn Italian. We recently experienced incidents on three of the cultural boundaries that are always
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)–U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) have criticized as far less than deserved the $35 million fine leveled against General Motors for failing to disclose safety defects in the ignition and airbag interface in 2,190,934 vehicles on the roads of the United States. The lack of disclosure
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