WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–An opinion poll conducted in several Arab countries has found that 57 per cent of respondents believe Iran wants to acquire nuclear weapons and regard this as a positive outcome for the Middle East. The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll was carried by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami in conjunction with the […]
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Psalms, A Memoir by Hirsch Grunstein; Create Space; 403 pages; no price listed. By Norman Manson SAN DIEGO–This is, in a number of ways, a very unusual memoir of Holocaust survival. It is not a story of survival in death camps, nor of life on the run deep in the fields and woods of eastern
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Adventures in SD HistoryWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) Chairman Marc R. Stanley and President and CEO David A. Harris on Sunday issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s remarks reaffirming our Constitutional right – and the commitment of our country’s founders – to freedom of religion: “On Friday evening, President Obama
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Sara Netanyahu is not one of the most well regarded first ladies of the world. She is known for yelling and throwing things at the household help. She has been the target of civil actions for not paying what is required, and–along with her husband–the subject of police inquiries for fiddling with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, December 24, 1954, Page 9 Lasker Lodge News By Lou Levitt Congratulations to our newly elected officers for the year 1955. They are: President Milton (Mickey) Fredman; 1st v. pres., Dr. Milton Millman; 2nd v. pres., Marshall Zucker; 34d v. pres., Edward Herman; fin. Sec. Joseph
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Adventures in SD HistoryDear Mr Zakaria: As an assiduous viewer of your Sunday TV show (CNN/GPS), which I have always enjoyed for your judicious commentaries, the choice of your experts, and your well-prepared and deeply-probing questions, I have earned the right to express my disappointment. The case in point is your position on the controversial decision to build a mosque
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– It’s no secret that Marion Ross and Paul Michael are an item. They have been together for 22 years now. But how wonderful is it that, among other things, they can play opposite each other in Joe Dipietro’s (I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, co-writer for Tony winning Memphis and
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, December 24, 1954, Page 3 City of Hope Your Help in Campaign Two weeks ago a young non Jewish woman from this area entered the City of Hope Medical Center T.B Hospital. She was despondent about her condition and worried about the two small children she
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–EL AL, the national airline of Israel, recently hosted 19 year old student Sounlove Zamour on a flight from New York to Israel. Sounlove is a double amputee victim of the horrific earthquake that took place in Haiti this past January. Sounlove is in Israel to continue with the next stage of
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–It is anticipated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will once again seek the platform of the United Nations to spew his hateful rhetoric, threats and bigotry as he has done on several occasions, including at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and the UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference. Alan Solow,
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Rabbi Shai Cherry, Ph.D., has been engaged as the new Director of the Abraham Ratner Torah School at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Rabbi Cherry, or Rav Shai as he likes to be called, holds a doctorate in Jewish Thought and Theology from Brandeis University and was subsequently ordained as a Conservative Rabbi
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A small crowd gathered in the sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El on Thursday evening, August 12, to meet the poet Gertrude Rubin of Chicago, who was introduced by her daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Lawrence Baron. Rabbis Martin Lawson and Lenore Bohm helped make the introductions, with Bohm reading two of
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Jochebed Determined to save the life of her infant son from Pharaoh’s edict to kill all the male infants among the Israelites, she wove a basket and sadly – but courageously – pushed it into the Nile River. Without her action our story may never have been. One of a series of seven women of
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–Parashat Shoftim contains the obtuse ritual of the eglah arufah (heifer whose neck was broken). If a murder victim is found outside of one or more towns and the slayer is unknown, the residents of the town closest to the victim must take responsibility for their burial. Before doing so
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