Assad: Syria has received advanced Russian missiles (JNS.org) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria “has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported. “The rest of the shipment will arrive soon,” Assad reportedly said. Israel fears that Syria’s receipt of S-300 surface-to-air missiles could be a regional […]
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Jews have been arguing among themselves since before they were called Jews, or had decided what Judaism was supposed to be. Jews make their arguments the subject of comedy. Anti-Semites take them as one more reason to hate the Jews. Remember that Abraham left home. We can assume that he had
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Norman Greene JULIAN, California– If you are fond of dining on a less traveled road in a romantic country inn with an excellent dining room, I have a great suggestion for you. Visit this mountain city east of San Diego. The restaurant at Orchard Hill Country Inn in Julian was a delightful, well
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San Diego County, Travel and Food
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenHezbollah involvement heats up Syrian civil war (JNS.org) The civil war in Syria continued to spill over into Lebanon on Tuesday, with three Lebanese soldiers shot dead by gunmen on the porous border between the two countries. According to reports in Lebanon, the unidentified gunmen crossed into Lebanon from Syria in a jeep and opened
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International
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, as American “doughboys” were being deployed to Europe in the closing frames of World War I. His gilded childhood and adolescence were shaped by his family-bred athleticism, the fervent paternalism of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy (the deeply-flawed US
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USA
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Just as there were six million victims, so were there at least six million stories. One of those stories seems to have occurred many times, because I’ve heard it told by quite a few survivors. It is the story of two or more Jews, witnessing the sadistic
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Jewish ReligionBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A group of oncologists have revealed in a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers that communicating about death and dying with their patients is one of the most difficult and stressful parts of their work. In the United States, 577,190 deaths from cancer occurred in 2012,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — On September 1, 2000, only a couple of days into the Palestinian violence against Jews that erupted at Yasser Arafat’s behest across the West Bank and Gaza, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Dura, was reportedly killed by Israel during a clash with Palestinian armed
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Middle EastIsrael warns Russia over shipment of advanced missiles to Syria (JNS.org) Israel has sent a warning to Russia over the transfer of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, threatening to strike the shipments if necessary. Israel fears that the weapons could be a regional game changer, especially if its falls into the hands of terrorist
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InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, and Bahrain designate Hezb’allah a terrorist organization; Britain and Australia outlaw only Hezb’allah’s “terrorist wing” but permit its “political wing” to organize and raise money (only for political activity, of course). A motion by Britain will put the British/Australian formula on the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Is Your advisor managing your portfolio tax efficiently? The tax rules are getting more complicated than ever and taxes are increasing. It’s hard to keep track of all of the ways our income is being taxed: Ordinary tax, capital gain tax, alternative minimum tax, Medicare surtax… where does it
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and Food
By Eileen Wingard PORTLAND, Oregon –For the first time in its seven-year history, I was able to attend the opening program of “A Journey Through the Generations” at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland. This is no ordinary exhibit. On view from April 23-May 7, it was created by fifth graders, twenty-two students from my
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Eileen WingardBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is unwise to invest too seriously as a consumer of political rhetoric. Politicians lie. They must, in order to serve diverse constituencies. Party platforms are designed to up the enthusiasm of those already committed. “Singing to the choir” pretty much summarizes what goes in election campaigns, with parties appealing to their
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