By Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi delivered a severe blow to the Egyptian military’s political ambitions this week, and sent clear message to Egypt and beyond: his civilian Islamist government is now in charge. Taking advantage of widespread shock in Egypt over the brutal gunning down of 15 Egyptian soldiers by
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Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Irony I feel, is a very high form of morality. — JEAN STAFFORD This morning I received an email about how the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh turns to Israel when his family needs medical attention. I know of very few countries that live by the ethic
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East. By Chana Miller NEW YORK — A patient lies helpless in a hospital bed. His family surrounds him. The room is filled with tension. He has one chance to live. A bone marrow transplant can save his life but a genetic match is needed. In Petach Tikvah, Ezer Mizion’s International Jewish Bone Marrow Registry
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky BERGEN, Norway — Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to file away last month’s report by a committee headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, which endorsed an Israeli view of international law that Yehuda and Samaria (the West Bank) are not “occupied territories,” insofar as they never were the possession of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Even before the presidential debates, the lines separating the worldviews of the candidates present a sharp picture of clear distinctions; and that is good for the electorate and for democracy. The incumbent, President Obama, by his words and deeds, situated himself far to the left of mainstream
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USA
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– It was another one of those park bench discussions. I hadn’t seen my old friend Eli for quite some time. We would run into each other every couple of years, not because we planned it, but because we lived in the same city. We both loved to take
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Jewish Religion
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Americans are jaded by the size and shape of the financial crisis that ripped through banking in 2008. Bernie Madoff, AIG, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs, subprime lending, unfathomable derivatives, and underwater mortgages make it hard to work up much steam on yet another banking story. And you could
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– When ETTV reporter Claire Su [舒夢蘭] of Taiwan flew to Israel last June with a camera crew and producer in tow, she had no idea what to expect from her first visit to the Holy Land, but she returned to Taipei with fond memories of the people she met
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release)– Elona Brage, 22 and Sagi Hebron, 18 from San Diego made Aliyah to Israel on Monday, August 13, on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight that left out of JFK airport in New York. Immediately after becoming an Israeli citizen, they will be joining the Israel Defense Forces. They boarded the flight Monday
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San Diego County
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Jennifer Devoldère’s The Day I Saw Your Heart is the Jewish Film Club’s (www.jewishfilmclub.com) DVD selection for this July and August. It stars Mélanie Laurent as X-Ray technician Justine Dhrey and Michel Blanc as her prickly father Eli. Ju, as she is called, seethes with resentment against Eli. When she
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Lawrence Baron
By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — I have come to realize that one can never be prepared totally for someone to die. I thought that I was. My father lived for over 30 years with congestive heart failure. In May 1981, he suffered a major heart attack. The heart attack was so severe; the
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San Diego CalendarBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Jewish world has recently begun its new project of the Daf Yomi, or “Page of the Day.” Here is a brief history how the project originally began. Rabbi Meir Shapiro, leader of the World Agudath Israel, introduced a novel idea in 1923. He felt the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Morris J. Amitay WASHINGTON, D.C — The specter of the January 2, 2013 sequestration has created rare unanimity here in Washington. Just about everyone both in the defense establishment and Congress maintains it would have disastrous consequences if implemented. This new round of budget cuts was mandated by the U.S. Budget Control Act
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The recent attack upon the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin dredged up some old memories I thought I had buried. My story began not long after 2001. At that time, I was a rabbi in Glens Falls, New York, when the incident occurred. After the terrible 9/11
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA