By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –The following true story, submitted by Yaakov Lederman, is documented in Kids Speak 4: My name is Chaim. I am eleven. I live in Israel. At the beginning of the school year my father met my teacher on the street. At first he tried to cross to the other
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Despite dramatic events in this region that directly affect Israel, the situation in Japan continues to dominate the media here. Journalists and experts repeatedly point to the implications for this country: oil will be even more expensive; the stock exchange will report further losses; the economy will suffer; the danger of
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release)– A $500,000 grant from the Polonsky Foundation of London will enable the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to digitize its Albert Einstein Archives and make it available online to researchers and students everywhere. The announcement was made on Einstein’s birthday and also on Israel National Science Day, both falling on March 14. The
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD, California – If Jane Austen had written plays as well as novels and had lived later in the 19th century, she might have written Trio. This beautiful play has many of the ingredients of an Austen novel: a brilliant heroine, a narcissistic, self-destructive husband, and a delicate romance. The only thing missing is Colin Firth. Trio is the triangular love story inspired
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Cynthia CitronBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have shown that a significant number of patients with benign prostate enlargement (BPE) may have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), which may be the reason for their night awakenings and urination. This study compared men between the ages of 55 and 75 who were randomly
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Who’d possibly have thought it? Answer: Anybody who understands the Middle East. You see, the Obama Administration rushed to get rid of the Mubarak government in the belief that this action would make Egyptians see that they are simply wonderful people. This would assure that Egypt and America remained good
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Shmully Hecht NEW HAVEN, Connecticut –Following is an open letter to the Fogel letter of Itamar, Israel Dear Tamar, Roi, and Yishai, We have never met but I write to you with tears in my eyes, and a sad and heavy heart that is shared by our people, Am Yisroel. Like your parents, I too long to settle
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Middle East
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — ion theatre company, now in it’s fifth season, has established itself as pretty avant-garde. So it’s no surprise that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant Of Inishmore would be on their wish list of plays to produce. He’s also the playwright who wrote The Beauty Queen Of Leenae (it was a
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NIR AM, Israel — Science and medicine have enabled us to lengthen our life span, but they still don’t know how to guarantee the quality of our lives. Over the last three years I have been spending a morning a week with one of the founding members of Kibbutz Nir Am
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It would be timely for Barack Obama, Thomas Friedman, and their chorus mates to leave the Middle East to those who know more about it. Friedman’s own newspaper, The New York Times, calls Saudi Arabia America’s most important Arab ally, and indicates that leaders of that country “have made no
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Ira Sharkansky
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where is the connection between the vicious murder of two parents and three of their five children in Itamar last weekend and the Peter King hearing? Some time after 9-11, someone in America coined the term “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” to account for people – Muslims – who “went berserk”
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — People ask me what the United States should be doing toward the upheavals in the Middle East. Here’s a short, quick list of themes: 1. Understanding that there are some people who want real democracy and others who don’t, U.S. policy should be focused on battling the latter, especially
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–“Mourning for the victims has barely begun, but the government has already managed to discredit their memory.” So writes Bernard Avishai, the Canadian born Israeli political commentator and consultant who spends much time in the United States. He’s referring to the ways in which the Government of Israel has exploited the
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Middle East
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Excitement is mounting as some choirs are scheduling extra rehearsals and all are making time in their practice evenings to allow for the visits of David Amos, conductor and Rhoda Gaylis, pianist. Those two outstanding musicians and community leaders will help prepare the choirs for their final numbers,
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Eileen Wingard