By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Ivory Coast is said currently to have two presidents and be in chaos. Israel has two, or perhaps even three, prime ministers and it’s in anything but chaos. If you don’t probe too deeply, things seem to be going rather well here, especially economically. The official prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, […]
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)― Most galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, harbor super-massive black holes varying in mass from about one million to about 10 billion times the size of our sun. To find them, astronomers look for the enormous amount of radiation emitted by gas which falls into such objects during
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Science, Medicine, & EducationCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Israel Arrives (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, July 22, 1955, Page 5 We have been waiting for this for seven years. It has finally come. What is it? Well it’s just this – that Israel is a country like any other nation. Just that. A dispatch from Haifa tells
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –Some of my readers are always bothered when I say that mistakes in Western Middle East policy are caused by stupidity and ignorance—abetted by ideology—and want to argue that the shortcomings are due to deliberate sabotage or evil intentions (often against Israel). I can certainly understand why people think such
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff City of Hope Southwestern Jewish Press, July 22, 1955, Page 3 City of Hope Medical Center has opened the doors again to another San Diegan and to Hollywood Actress Suzan Ball. The plucky 21-year-old actress, whose leg was amputated a year and a half ago because of cancer,
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Mahmoud Abbas has marked the Christmas season by proclaiming once again that he will permit no Israelis in his State of Palestine. In an earlier version he said that he would permit no Jews, but handlers had him revise his comments in a direction thought to be politically correct. The recognition
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I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor by Laura Hillman; Simon Pulse, 2005; ISBN-13 978-1-4169-5366-1, paperback, 271 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I met Laura Hillman recently at the 105th birthday party for Laura Simon in San Diego. When I learned that she had written
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff A Tangible Example of Brotherhood; ‘Christian Friends’ Pledge $9,589 to Fund Drive Southwestern Jewish Press, July 22, 1955, Page 1 112 Voluntary pledges totaling almost $10,000 have been made by non –Jews to the United Jewish Fund’s 1955 Campaign, (according to) Campaign Chairman, Max Rabinowitz. These contributions which
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO–Beth Am Preschool holds an Open House on Sunday, January 9, from 9:00- 10:30am. The Preschool, located in Carmel Valley, on the Synagogue Campus at 5050 Del Mar Heights Road, and at the Satellite Campus at 11860 Carmel Creek Road, includes a variety of programs for children ages newborn through five years. The Synagogue Campus houses
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling on United Nations member states to declare that they will not participate in the so-called “Durban III” conference, set to be held in New York in September 2011, calling the proceedings “a conference that will undermine rather than advance the fight against discrimination.” The U.N. General
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Middle EastBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel– If I had to pick one sentence to show what’s profoundly wrong with Middle East coverage in the Western mass media, this is the one I’d choose. It’s in a New York Times article entitled, “Israel: Tensions Rise Along Gaza Border” by Isabel Kershner. I’ll put the sentence in
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–When I was attending the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, very little emphasis was placed on “practical rabbinics,” the nuts and bolts of being a rabbi. One piece of advice I do remember was aseh Toratcha keva, “fix a time for your Torah study.” We were warned that
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Jewish ReligionRICHMOND, Virginia (Press Release)– The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a suit contesting public financing of a Baptist housing project in Arlington County, Virginia, saying plaintiff Peter Glassman had not shown the housing project was for anything other than its stated purpose. Here is the court’s opinion.
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Respect and Children (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, July 8, 1955, Page 5 We were intrigued the other day by the statement of a news broadcaster to the effect that a check-up on juvenile delinquents revealed that Chinese children rarely were brought into court for violation of any laws.
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