By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian public intellectual, activist and president of Al Quds University, paraphrases in his memoir, Once Upon a Country (p. 446), what he wrote in 2001: The average Israeli sought security and a Jewish state, and the average Palestinian sought freedom from occupation. There was an astoundingly simple […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Jews are nervous. That is a chronic condition, now heightened by talk of boycott, helped along by the likes of John Kerry and Thomas Friedman. Shimon Peres is joining those who say the conditions.are ripe for Israel to.make peace with the Palestinians, and it better succeed or else. On the ground however,where
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– A Jewish community forum at Congregation Beth Israel heard several ideas on Friday, Feb. 21, for improving the lives of present and future senior citizens. All the suggestions required legislation at either the federal or state level. The meeting was an outgrowth of ongoing consultations among local Jewish agencies
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –Playwright/director/actor Tom Dugan is in the process of writing his sixth one-man show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln. “I’m not playing Mary,” he says, “but I could.” Instead, Dugan is busy preparing his successful show Nazi Hunter-Simon Wiesenthal, which ran at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 last year,for a run at
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Feb. 21, expressed concern that hundreds of copies of literature written by and about Anne Frank, the most internationally known Holocaust victim, were vandalized in public libraries across Tokyo. More than 200 copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and other books related to her life
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International
By Steven Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Those familiar with my articles have become accustomed to reading relatively detailed descriptions of our short visits all over Israel. What if you are planning a 10-day trip to Israel, with so much to see? It’s hard to work out and choose an itinerary. Linda, my wife Michal’s sister,
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Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (WJC) – A delegation of 43 Argentinean Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and politicians has arrived in the Middle East for a goodwill tour to the region to promote peace and mutual understanding. The group met on Thursday, Feb. 20, with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah, who expressed his belief that peace
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Middle EastObama urges Erdogan to renew diplomatic ties with Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on the phone with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday and discussed with him the “importance of quickly concluding the normalization agreement with Israel.” According to a statement issued by the White House, the two
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InternationalBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week’s D’var Torah was suggested by Norm Katz, Financial V.P. and regular Torah Reader at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Norm will be reading Torah this Shabbat and leading our Torah Discussion Group with Bob Sherman following the service. The construction of the Mishkan, the traveling tent in which the Israelites
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Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Two members of the Jewish community, Dianne Lee (Dee) Aker and Deborah Szekeley, will be among five local women to be inducted into the San Diego Women’s Hall of Fame on March 28th at the McMillin Event Center at 2875 Dewey Road at NTC at Liberty Station. Aker serves as interim director
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San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Like its director George Clooney, The Monuments Men is debonair and handsome, but there’s always a nagging suspicion beneath the surface that it could be more intellectually substantial. Commemorating the Allied team that recovered paintings and sculptures seized by the Nazis provides a different perspective on World War II
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Travel and Food
PHILADELPHIA –For most Jews in the United States, hunting laws are not a concern. Following World War II, most Jews settled in urban or suburban areas, far from roaming turkeys, elk, bears, and deer outside of the occasional casualty in the highway emergency lane. Therefore, few even realize that the same seemingly archaic statutes that
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USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called on member states of the Organization of American States to bring maximum pressure on the Venezuelan government to end its crackdown and respond positively to the demands of its own citizens. “Venezuela’s denial of the right of assembly, of freedom of speech and dissent, are
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release)–Adherents of the “sovereign citizen” movement are forming their own vigilante “grand juries” in counties across the United States in an attempt to exact pressure on local government officials to accede to their anti-government demands and whims. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors domestic anti-government groups and reports on their activities, has
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USA