By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO -A full house gathered in Balboa Park to monitor a conversation between Shakespeare scholars Barry Edelstein and James Shapiro, last Wednesday evening. Edelstein, the Old Globe’s Artistic Director walked over from the set of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to welcome Shapiro a friend of more than 20 years standing who […]
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Travel and FoodDr. Michael Makovsky WASHINGTON, D.C.–The debate in the United States over policy toward Egypt has become mired in the principle of the democratic process. But the moral issues involved are complicated, and U.S. policy should be guided by our larger strategic interests across the Middle East. The Obama Administration’s approach toward Egypt in recent
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO – Here is a look at the activities of our fellow Jews who are holding public office or shaping public policy: National News WEDDING — It would be quite an occasion to have a Supreme Court Justice officiate at any wedding, but what made Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s conducting the ceremony on Saturday, August
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
Bomb targets IDF patrol on Gaza border (JNS.org) An explosive device was detonated near an Israel Defense Forces patrol traveling along the Gaza Strip border on Monday morning, Israel Hayom reported. No injuries or damage were reported in the incident. According to Army Radio, the troops were patrolling near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southwest of Sderot,
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International
SAN DIEGO– Over the Labor Day 2013 break, here are some statistics to ponder. There are 11 Jews in the 100-member U.S. Senate. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) at age 80, is the oldest member of the Senate Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), half her age at 40, is the second-youngest U.S. Senator. (The very youngest senator is Chris
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Anav Silverman TEL AVIV –Against the backdrop of a red sun dipping into the Mediterranean, friends and family members gathered together to honor over 1,000 child terror victims at Tel Aviv’s Old Railway Station last Thursday, August 29. In what was a special gala event organized by OneFamily Fund, the evening included the launching
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Putting the President’s speech alongside the political science classic by Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership is the best demonstration yet that Barack Obama has demonstrated the power of the Peter Principle. He should never have moved beyond the Illinois state legislature, and certainly not beyond one term
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Following is the text of President Obama’s remarks on Syria’s use of chemical weapons delivered in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, August 31: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Twelve Year old Megan Spector was walking along Mission Bay last Fall with 1,600 other participants in the Greater San Diego Chapter of the ALS Association’s Walk. It was Megan’s third time doing the ALS Walk to Defeat ALS, along with her parents and brother, Sheri, Steven and Cole Spector. Megan
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San Diego County
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Assertion. Is it a skill? Is it an attitude? Are we born assertive? Do we learn it as children? Can we acquire it as adults? Most of the literature on assertion assumes that people are unassertive because they don’t know how to be assertive—they lack the skill.
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO — License plate maven Melanie Rubin found this gem — “Rov n I” — which suggests that the owners of the car are a rabbi (rov) and a rebbitzin (I). They should live together in health, happiness, prosperity and the spirit of Torah!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Lloyd Levy LONDON — By the time this article is published, the “West”may be at war with Syria. Or rather, the “West” minus the UK, whose Parliament members made very clear to the Government that they wanted nothing to do with military involvement in yet another Middle East country. In the UK, we are
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — John Kerry’s speech was well tailored, to use a phrase that has become popular to describe the US attack on Syria still in the stages of planning or political buffering as I write this. He identified a number of countries that were supporting the US initiative, without mentioning Britain, Germany,
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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Now that City Councilman Todd Gloria is serving as acting mayor, he needs to do his very best to unite the people of this city and to put the recent unpleasantness behind us. He can do that by seeking consensus among his fellow city councilmembers on important initiatives
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Donald H. Harrison