By Ira Sharkansky EDINBURGH, Scotland –The first newspaper headline I noticed: 80 graduates for every job. Prominent on the BBC: a pointed but civilized debate in the House of Commons about a government proposal to make institutions of higher education more competitive, more open, and more productive of employable graduates. There was also news of
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Ira SharkanskyWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– Following are remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the swearing-in ceremony for Dan Shapiro as the new American ambassador to Israel. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all very much. It is such a pleasure to welcome you here to the Benjamin Franklin Room for this very happy and
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It is written in the Talmud that “the world rests upon the breath of the children in the schoolhouse.” In the case of Caylee Marie Anthony, the two-year old whose breath was somehow snuffed out even before she ever entered a schoolhouse, before she had the chance to
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Star-Light Opera Opens 11th Season Thursday night Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 5 Star-Light Opera opens its 11th season of outdoor musicals in Balboa Park Bowl Thursday, June 28, at 8:30 with “The King and I” starring John Powell and co-starring as Anna, the “I”
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By Rabbi Baruch Lederman Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Bilaam possessed powers of prophecy that not only rivaled Moshe Rabbeinu’s, they exceeded Moshe Rabbeinu’s. With all the spiritual grandeur that he experienced, it was only natural that he would devote himself righteously to the ways of Hashem. Yet we see that he did no
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal JERUSALEM — Having visited Jerusalem so many times, I did not think I would have anything new to share with you this week. But Israel is full of surprises. In the Holy City I saw something I have never seen before: Israeli pedestrians obeying the walk-don’t walk signals.Until now pedestrians crossed
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David Ogul, Middle East[Note: AFP reports that a French yacht carrying 12 pro-Palestinian activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel.] By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations is preparing to release its report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 3 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Vacation Precautions This is the time of year when things happen to personalities, to vital statistics, to resolutions made at the end of the previous year, and to plans
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In an effort to combat the growing threat of radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) today asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to remove inflammatory written, audio and video materials produced by the “Nation of Islam” and Louis Farrakhan in BOP facilities
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USA
By Eileen Wingard Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the greatest exponent of the Yiddish Art Song, Lazar Weiner (1897-1982). His settings of folk songs, and his original music for the work of contemporary Yiddish poets, followed in the tradition of lieder composers such as Schubert, Schumann
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Eileen Wingard
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –With extraordinary economic problems and its public in a very bad mood, the Government of Greece seemed an unlikely hero in the saga of the Hamas-organized flotillas. But Greece is, indeed, the hero. While several countries – including the United States – denounced the idea of boats breaking legal Israeli-Egyptian
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – As the aroma of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the barbecues on the parking lot of Ner Tamid Synagogue in the early evening of July 4th, Rabbi Nadav Caine and congregational president Mitchell Freedman, each in turn, contemplated how American ideals reflect those articulated in Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — At the beginning of the twentieth century the whole of Europe was in a state of flux. New ideas and new ideals were making themselves felt and the youth were bent on changing the old and ringing in the new. All doctrines and philosophies were the rage
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Middle East
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Years of waiting–though leaks have been plentiful–have just about ended with the word from the international tribunal that four Hizballah officials, including the group’s deputy military commander Mustafa Badreddine were involved in killing Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Yet Hizballah is now the leading force
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