By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will give the Republican response to the speech. Mike Lee will follow her with the Tea Party response to the Address. Finally, Rand Paul will follow him with a speech representing his idiosyncratic perspective. If
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org TEL AVIV (JNS)–Sure, it helps if you love to ogle the latest in hand-made crafts. But even if you don’t know a piece of greenware from earthenware, Tel Aviv’s Nachalat Binyamin Art & Craft Fair is a fun and funky way to spend a lazy Tuesday or Friday afternoon (the two days
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A salute Saturday evening, Jan. 25, to Israel’s Navy and a speech by its former commander Amihai Ayalon, who also is a past director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, was not, as one might expect, dedicated to probing analysis of the external threats faced by the Jewish State,
650 Friends of IDF have warm, sentimental evening Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonROME (Press Release)—AJC (American Jewish Committee) has called for increased vigilance following grotesque manifestations of anti-Semitism in Rome during the Jewish Sabbath on January 25. A box with a pig’s head was delivered to Rome’s Grand Synagogue on Friday and similar packages were delivered on Saturday to the Israeli Embassy and to the Museum of
AJC Denounces new outrages, remembers old ones Read More »
Jewish History
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–“Despite what people might think, anti-Semitism does not strengthen our ties with Jews overseas” said Minister of Jerusalem & Diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett, before presenting the annual report on the subject to the Israeli government in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 26. “For every Jew who makes Aliya as a result of anti-Semitism,
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Jewish ReligionBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance took place in the Arab world in December 2013: a first official conference on the Holocaust was held in Tunisia, dealing with Holocaust of the Jews of Tunisia, and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to
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InternationalBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Remember a popular novel from the 1950s titled On The Beach by the British-Australian writer Nevil Shute? His real name was Nevil Shute Norway, but he used a pen name for his writings. The novel came out in 1957 and was a dire warning about the perils of
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The World We Share
By Sybil Kaplan/JNS.org Arava, literally meaning “desolate” and “dry area” in Hebrew, on the map is a section of the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north-south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea and continuing farther south, where it ends at Eilat and the Gulf of
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Travel and FoodBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of the characteristics of “one-man rule,” whether autocratic, theocratic, authoritarian, or totalitarian, is the absence of “mistakes, blunders and scandals” because the dictator answers to no one and to no law. In the Roman empire, “the Prince is exempt from the Laws,” (Princeps legibus solutus est.)
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USA
By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org HONG KONG—A taxi ride to 70 Robinson Road in Hong Kong, the address listed for the Ohel Leah synagogue, ends with a simple question: Where is the synagogue? The driver had understood the destination request. But this was a street of high-rise residential towers. There is no synagogue in sight. A quick look
Hong Kong Jewish community is vibrant Read More »
Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO– Sandi Masori spotted this license plate and concluded that clearly the owner of this car is someone who enjoys a friendly conversation!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireRabbi Moshe Walter, The Making of a Halachic Decision. Menucha Publishers.ISBN: 1614650896. 231 pages, $24. Rating: 3* out of 5. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Any student of Jewish law has often wondered about the origin of the Halachic decision-making process. True, the Talmud is full of arguments. If you
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Slogans of the left are that Israeli occupation of Palestinian land cannot last, or alternatively, that the international community will not tolerate the lack of agreement between Israel and an independent State of Palestine.. It has lasted for coming onto 66 or 47 years, depending on whether you begin at
Is long-lasting peace possible in volatile Mideast? Read More »
International, Ira Sharkansky
-Second in a series-– By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The director of the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology says what sounds like an easy question before someone is diagnosed with cancer, can be just the reverse afterwards. During a recent telephone interview, Michael Kalichman framed the issue this way:
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Donald H. Harrison