By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — History is back and so are the Russians. After an interregnum of twenty years, during which the communist Soviet Union was demolished and a crony capitalist, Russian kleptocracy turned inward to establish firm control of journalists (oh wait, that might have been the Obama Administration), civil society practitioners including […]
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
IDF fired on from Syria for third straight day (JNS.org) An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) jeep in the central Golan Heights was hit by gunfire from across the Syrian border on Tuesday, marking the third straight day the Israeli army was fired on from Syria, the IDF said in a statement. IDF artillery units “returned
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International
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO-The death of a parent is like the loss of a limb. The death of a child or a spouse is more like having part of your heart excised with a dull, rusty blade. The cut is jagged, the hemorrhaging persistent. Each time the flow is staunched,
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Eva TriegerSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Jewish Film Festival presents, AKA Doc Pomus. The film screening will be held on Wednesday, May 29, at 7:00 PM in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC. The event is sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. Doc Pomus’ tale is one
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Travel and FoodBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Earlier this year on San Diego Jewish World, I presented some thoughts about how to forge closer bonds between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora to ensure that we remain a single people, rather than just coreligionists. The op-ed assumed that Israel is important, and now I would
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Arkady Mamaysky, Middle EastBy Carissa Leigh EL CAJON (Press Release) — English professor Tate Hurvitz will lead a common reading project on the Grossmont College campus for the third year in a row this upcoming Fall 2013 semester.. Students and faculty members from a variety of academic disciplines will read Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman NAZARETH, Israel — Four years ago, the Israeli government named Nazareth a national priority area, meaning that Israel’s largest Arab city would be granted economic incentives as a preferential area and firms that relocate to the city are entitled to tax breaks. Recently, the first industrial park in Nazareth was officially opened
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Newspaper estimates of the numbers taking part in recent demonstrations tell us something about the ranking of items on the agendas of various sectors. What is impressive is not the precision of such numbers, but great differences in their magnitude. On Thursday evening of last week, it was estimated that
Lapid backpedals on secular education for Haredim Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The bearded man in the middle, front row was the rabbi. He was renowned and admired for his wisdom, spirituality, and the judiciousness he applied—particularly in view of the fact that Jews were not considered a part of the state society in the pre-Nazi world of Jasina,
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Jewish Religion
Palestinian village hangs large Swastika flag on electric line (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces Civil Administration on Monday ordered the Palestinian Electrical Company to remove a Swastika flag that had been hung on one of its electric wires in the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar. A photograph of the Swastika flag
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International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — For many Jews whose ancestors lived in Eastern Europe, Fiddler on the Roof provides a mythic context for understanding what their lives might have been like. Music from the show, such as “Sunrise, Sunset,” is routinely played at such simchas as bar mitzvah receptions and weddings. But what
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Donald H. Harrison
By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — From 1977 to 1986, Woody Allen had a filmmaking run so impressive it’s been equaled only by the likes of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Allen’s films included Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, Purple Rose of Cairo and Hannah and Her Sisters. Woody was an antidote to the Spielberg/Lucas
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Serpent’s Chronicle by Neil Folberg; Abbeville Press Publishers, (c) 2013; IBN 978-0-7892-1138-5; 84 pages; $29.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– In Serpent’s Chronicle, his new book of photographs, Neil Folberg recounts the story of Adam and Eve, but not as most people know the tale. His story is from the viewpoint of a serpent
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Remember the Cold War? And the crises focused on Berlin and missiles in Cuba? Could we be on the cusp of a comparable crisis focused on Syria? Among the unanswered questions is the relative weight of Israel in the thinking and threatening being done by the US and Russia. This,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East