NEW YORK (WJC) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has accused Egyptian opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei of covering up Iran’s true nuclear ambitions when he directed the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, in Vienna. “He is a stooge of Iran, and I […]
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Travel and FoodRAMALLAH, Palestine Authority (WJC)– Riyad al-Malki, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister, has said that the Republic of Cyprus – a member state of the European Union – had recognized a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders. Al-Malki told the French news agency AFP the move had been “formalized” in a letter sent by Cyprus President
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release) — The new environmentally-friendly concept of municipal “bike-sharing” is taking over European cities like Paris, and American cities like New York are also looking into the idea. It allows a subscriber to “borrow” a bike from one of hundreds of locations in the city, use it, and return it to another location
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — As I’ve been warning, Mohamed ElBaradei (also spelled Mohammed al-Baradei), seen as the leading “moderate, pro-democratic” leader in Egypt is negotiating with the Muslim Brotherhood to form a national unity government. That doesn’t mean the negotiations will succeed but it gives a clear glimpse of what a post-Mubarak regime Egypt
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Middle EastColumn 14, January 31, 2011 Compiled by Donald H. Harrison __________________ Jewish organizations _________________ Seventeen eighth graders, or 75 percent of the 8th grade class, at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, recently presented science fair projects that were deemed qualified for entry into the Greater San Diego County Science Fair. Among the winners were
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Donald H. Harrison, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Why has President Barack Obama of the United States turned his back on President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt? There’s no shortage of speculations. For example: 1. Obama is a naïve idealist who believes that because the unrest in Egypt currently manifests itself as a popular rebellion of the young against the
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Travel and Food
By Joel A Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California—Israeli Lt. General (ret.) Dan Halutz at Sunday’s Yom Limmud, San Diego’s Jewish Community Day of Learning, quipped about his decision to join the Kadima Party in Israel: “In politics, you can be killed many times; in the military, only once.” This veteran and long-time member of the Israel’s Defense
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Middle East, San Diego County
By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, Caifornia — “They usually run the gamut from things that have family disruption to political themes to musical,” explained Joyce Axelrod in a phone interview about some of the plots in Shorts in Winter, a free San Diego Jewish Film Festival program on Monday, February 14 at Clairemont Reading
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Travel and Food
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –While the news bulletins are focusing on street demonstrations in Egypt, there are five crucial points that are not being adequately explained. Firstly, it is meaningless to discuss whether the Army is sympathetic to the rioters or not . Maybe some individual soldiers are sympathetic, but the fact is that the Egyptian
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Lloyd LevyBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)— “Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needs a miracle to survive the presidency,” according to Egypt expert, Yoram Meital, who is Chairman of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. However, he thinks that a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood should not be seen as a
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Travel and FoodBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In the nothing is too ridiculous category, al-Safir, the left-wing, Syrian-backed, pro-Hizballah newspaper, that the New York Times is now using as a reliable source on Lebanese politics, has a scoop. According to the newspaper, an Israeli security agent paid a Palestinian $3000 to put a poison pill in
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Middle East, USA
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Regardless of what Emma Woodhouse does in the business of matchmaking, the fact that Patti Murin inhabits her body, makes the new Jane Austen’s “Emma A Musical Romantic Comedy” with lyrics and book by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun (“Bonnie and Clyde at the La
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Hearings Slated for Distribution of Funds Southwestern Jewish Press, September 30, 1955, Page 1 Organizations requesting allocations from the United Jewish Fund 1955 campaign have been invited to send representatives to an open hearing for the committee and members of the United Jewish Fund on Sunday, October 2, in the new State Ballroom of the
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — The U.S. government doesn’t play favorites, even when it should. Israel came out with a report under international auspices on the Mavi Marmara/Gaza flotilla incident that corresponds to the evidence. The Turkish government had a report for which there is no evidence, accusing Israel of massacring Turkish citizens even
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Middle East, USA