Poll: 50 percent of Israelis say U.S. pressure should not sway Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Half of the Israeli Jewish public concurs that Israel should follow current government policy even at the price of a confrontation with the U.S. administration, a new poll published Tuesday revealed. Additionally, according to the Israel Democracy Institute […]
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InternationalBy Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — About 15 years ago, a student of mine with blue eyes told me he was a Kurdish Jew. I was surprised because most of my Kurdish students at Grossmont College in nearby El Cajon were Muslim with a scattering of Christians. It turns out I was wrong. Before the
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Mimi PollackSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Tarbuton, Israeli Cultural Center in Carmel Valley, has been selected to join Nitzan, a National network for innovative after school programs. (“Nitzan” means flower bud in Hebrew.) The purpose of Nitzan’s network is to support the renewal of Jewish learning after school. Network members support each other by sharing
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San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I had the opportunity today to hang up on both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the likely leader of the Opposition in the next Knesset, Shelly Yachimovitch. No, I wasn’t rude: the calls were pre-recorded. Today, exactly two weeks before the elections, is the official launch of the campaign that
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Middle EastKnesset speaker says Israel ‘worried’ about Hagel nomination (JNS.org) Following the swift reaction of U.S.-based Jewish groups to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, Israel began to weigh in on the move Tuesday—and the general sentiment was concern. “Because of his statements in the past, and his stance toward Israel,
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InternationalBy JNS.org On the day when President Barack Obama nominated former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) said that despite expressing concerns about Hagel in the past, it believes Hagel will “follow the President’s lead of providing unrivaled support for Israel—on strategic cooperation, missile defense programs, and leading
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USABy Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California—If you’ve not seen Randall Dodge in The Pirates of Penzance, The Fantastics, Annie Get Your Gun, The Sound of Music and a host of other musicals in and around San Diego, I suggest you high tail it up to the Welk Resort Village Theatre in Escondido to see and hear this
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– We’re hearing different things about Chuck Hagel, and the reasons for his appointment as Obama’s Secretary of Defense.. Clips of his comments about the power of the Jewish lobby, the Palestinians being chained down, and the damage to the standing of the US due to excessive support of Israel Comments expressing
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Syrian civil war has passed an inflection point and Washington is running to catch up. While it may be too late for the United States to have a decisive impact on the ground, there is still time to salvage an American role in the end game and, hence, an
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Middle EastBy Cynthia Citron Soft-spoken playwright Horton Foote is to Texas what William Faulkner was to Mississippi: a faithful chronicler of the values and mores of a cultural subset of the American people. A major feature of both their bodies of work is their protagonists’ reaction to specific circumstances, disappointments, and defeat. “How a man reacts
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Cynthia CitronBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Scandals are prominent in Israeli media only two weeks before the national election. Neither is new, and both are being fanned by political activists concerned to use what they can to garner votes for themselves or the party they are supporting, as well by media personalities who know how to recognize
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — I recently and unexpectedly lost a dear friend. Not only was she a wonderful friend, a devoted wife and mother, she was also a “mover & shaker” in the community – in the best possible interpretation of that phrase. Gail Littman was the type of person who could make
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Jewish Religion, Sheryl RowlingBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In the Glickman-Galinson Sanctuary named for his family and that of his wife Elaine, Murray Galinson was eulogized Monday, Jan. 7, by two rabbis, two friends, and three children during a service that drew a High Holy Day-sized crowd that Congregation Beth Israel’s president Emily Jennewein estimated at
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –What seemed absolutely certain two weeks ago is much less so today: though it’s still likely that Binyamin Netanyahu will head a coalition after the elections on January 22 and thus continue as Prime Minister, other possibilities have now emerged. The leaders of three centrist parties – Sheli Yachimovitch of
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