By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The latest numbers about the two year old Syrian civil war are 80,000 deaths, one million refugees over the borders in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, and a total of four million displaced Syrians either over the borders or away from their homes in Syria. As always, we must be suspicious […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — After over two decades, the fight for women’s participation at the Western Wall has finally received its day in court. The Israeli District Court ruled that the women have the right to gather at the Western Wall and pray there as they wish; this decision opened
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Like every song, “Hava Negila” has a history. Roberta Grossman’s fun and informative documentary traces the evolution of the song from the “Ukraine to YouTube.” In the entertaining course of her film, she discredits many shibboleths about this infectious tune: it has not always had lyrics; it was not
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Lawrence Baron
DEL MAR, California (Press Release)– The Tarbuton is launching an Israeli Cultural and Hebrew language themed day camp this summer. Keitana is a three-hour, ten-day, Israeli style summer camp conducted in Hebrew. Two camps are offered each session: Hebrew Immersion for Hebrew Speakers who are proficient in Hebrew and Hebrew Enriched for Hebrew Learners. The
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Travel and Food
Allocations Committee to Plan Disbursement of Funds Raised in 1957 Fund Campaign Southwestern Jewish Press, July 12, 1957, Page 1 As the 1957 Jewish Fund Campaign continued to move toward its goal, 25 representative community leaders began planning a series of meetings and discussions preliminary to determining distribution of funds to the campaign’s beneficiary agencies.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –When the news came recently from Memphis that Maxine Smith had died—just a few days after my own biological, if enigmatic mother had passed—I understood what the loss of maternal wisdom and joy really does to a son. This Mother’s Day is my bittersweet day of mourning for the
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USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Although I was not in Jerusalem for Jerusalem Day this year, having been called away to fulfill grandparental duties, it was very much in my thoughts. I still have a very clear memory of those six days in June, just 46 years ago, when I was only dimly able to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison ESCONDIDO, California — When artists Larry and Debby Kline go out to casual dinners, they can’t help playing with the detritus of restaurant meals — the sugar and saccharine packets, napkins, chopstick wrappers, tooth picks, and other disposable items. While they eat, their eyes are locked in concentration on
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Donald H. Harrison
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California– In this affluent coastal community which gained fame in 2003 as the first U.S. mainland city to ban smoking on its public beaches, Steve Blumkin preaches what might be described as environmental tikkun olam. One of his particular interests lies several thousand miles to the south in the rain
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–At one point in Zombie Prom, students and a certain undead former student are protesting the commandment from Delilah Strict (Meredith Russo), the principal at Enrico Fermi High School, that no Zombies be permitted at the school prom. “Let my people glow!” urged the Zombie’s picket sign. The 1993
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Donald H. Harrison
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Like all crimes, acts of Islamist terrorism have their MOM (Motivation, Opportunity, Means). They differ in that they are not motivated by greed, profit, vengeance, or mental dysfunction, but by religious fanaticism inculcated in the minds of the perpetrators through years of intense indoctrination that succeeds in making
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USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called Prime Minister Netanyahu during Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to China, surely a diplomatic oddity. (Chinese Premier Li Kegiang answers the hotline in Beijing and says, “Oh, sure. Hey, Bibi, it’s for you.”) President Obama called him there as well, making Netanyahu appear to be the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
Defeat of Nazi Germany marked 68 years later (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel and the global community marked the 68th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II on Thursday with parades, festivals and somber memorial services. Hundreds of people, including war veterans who fought against Germany alongside the Allied troops, marched
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel’s current discussion is providing its lessons in the politics of economics and the economics of politics. Political economy is the name of the game. It is not really a discussion we are having. It’s more like simultanteous complaints, expressed as close to the top of one’s voice as appropriate
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East