By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — A few weeks after President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, I predicted that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians would be signed before the end of Obama’s second term eight years later. Some people thought that I was pessimistic. Obama had promised to appoint a […]
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently been asked to review or give an opinion about any of the plethora of books on the subject of raising one’s
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV (Press Release) — We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that breastfeeding could also help protect against Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most commonly diagnosed neurobehavioral disorder in children and adolescents. Seeking to determine
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO–Why would a successful dentist leave a thriving practice in Mexico to start over in San Diego? Dr. Abraham Romanowsky did just that. Never one to back down from a challenge, he has sought to take the best path all of his life, starting with his education, the woman he married,
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Mimi Pollack, Travel and FoodBy Jonathan Licht, M.D. DEL MAR, California — My mother was born in 1930 and was a Zionist, a person who believed in establishing a Jewish homeland. My father was a computer scientist when computers took up an entire room. In 1960 he was asked to install for the Israel Defense Force their first computer. I was seven and even
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Middle EastBy Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — The political scene in general, and politicians in particular in most democracies have come to be seen as having lost any semblance of any idealism, and young people have turned away from becoming involved in the broader political life of their countries in any meaningful way. Yes we have
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Travel and Food
A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel by Dara Horn, W.W. Norton & Co., New York; ISBN 978-0-393-06489-6 ©2013, $25.95, p. 352 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Josephine “Josie” Ashkenazi, the protagonist in Dara Horn’s newest novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, is a brilliant computer scientist who becomes an entrepreneur, having created, and now
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Fred Reiss, EdDBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are times when there are too many Jews in the Jewish country. Or maybe just too many rabbis. Currently we are approaching the culmination of a messy election to the Chief Rabbinate that reveals–along with a couple of other issues simultaneously bothering us–that Judaism would profit from a clean
Chief rabbinate politics as nasty as those in the Knesset Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Dutch Aldi supermarkets deny ban on products made beyond pre-1967 lines (JNS.org) The Netherlands branch of the German supermarket chain Aldi has disavowed comments it made in support of a ban on products made in territories acquired by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Both the Dutch branch of Aldi and another chain, Hoogvliet, had
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International
EL CAJON (Press Release) — Holocaust survivors Max and Rose Schindler related to a group of incoming freshmen at Grossmont College on Monday, July 22, that after enduring such horrors as the death of family members, near starvation, and constant humiliation at the hands of the Nazis, they finally were liberated from separate Nazi concentration
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San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In downtown San Diego, one of the federal courthouses is named for Judge Jacob Weinberger, who I’m certain would be shaking his head right now. All this speculation about Mayor Bob Filner’s guilt or innocence would have him wondering whatever happened to the deliberative justice system in
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — What is Tu b’Av? Do we celebrate it today? What is the significance of the day? The summer holiday of Tu B’Av (the 15th of Av) is a rabbinical holiday, one that the Mishnah describes in colorful detail: Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel said, “There were no happier days
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiAbbas: ‘All options are open’ if peace talks fail (JNS.org) Amid the push by Secretary of State John Kerry towards restarting negotiations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted in an interview with the Jordanian daily Al Ra’i as saying that if there is no progress in peace talks, “all options are open.” “If there
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International
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporting sanctions against Iran is understood to be a position designed to moderate Iranian behavior regarding the acquisition of nuclear capability. It is the position of people and countries that do not want to contemplate military action by either the United States or Israel. It is the position of
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen