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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USA
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Adventures in SD History
By Gabriel Rochelle/JNS.org MESILLA, New Mexico — I was in one of those big boxes in another city, waiting for a prescription. After wandering around for a few minutes, I sat down across the aisle from the pharmacy on one of the benches kindly provided by the store. I was wearing my cassock and vest
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Jewish Religion, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — How often have you heard people say that someone is spiritual? I always wonder what they mean exactly, and when asked, no one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation until now. Dr. Dean H. Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institute of Health postulates in his
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Travel and Food
By David Bedein When the Pope visits UNRWA Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, he will see murals on the walls of a UN facility that glorify homicide killers who died in the act of murder. These pictures were photographed in Deheishe on May 10, 2014 A monument ALL OF PALESTINE hovers over Deheishe. Deheishe
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Middle East
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org Living in the fast-paced world of evolving mobile technology, two young Israeli entrepreneurs have invented what they hope will revolutionize the one device that they feel “got left behind” and seemed to miss the mobile revolution train: the printer. Tuvia Elbaum and Matan Caspi, both 29 and students at the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman told graduates of SDSU’s College of Health and Human Services that they are prepared “no matter what the future brings,” reported the U-T’s education writer, Karen Kucher. “You have accomplished much here and you have the capacity to learn and to grow and to meet
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San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-After devoting most of its broadcasts to the search of Malaysian Flight 370, CNN shifted its coverage to Donald Sterling. Both stories deal with something that was flying high, veered off course, and came crashing down to earth. The only difference is that Sterling continues to emit pings. * Rabbi Yaakov
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India, with Narendra Modi of Gujarat set to become that country’s next prime minister, is being greeted with interest and curiosity in the United States. The White House said that President Barack Obama called Modi on Friday, May 16, to congratulate him on his
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International, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Hillel of San Diego is calling for volunteers to help distribute food to victims of San Diego County’s wildfires. Wendy Bryer, coordinator, may be contacted at wbryer@hillelsd.org The organization noted that while the Hillel House at California State College at San Marcos had to be evacuated, it was still clear of
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education