By Rabbi Amikam Tanami MERON, Israel — Currently, Ezer Mizion services over 650,000 people a year. Its professional staff is augmented by 11,000 volunteers. Way back in the old days, I had the privilege of being Rabbi Chananya Chollak’s first employee. It was way back, when Ezer Mizion was still taking its first steps. There
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Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–It was North Korea that torpedoed a South Korean submarine-an internationally recognized act of war that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It wasn’t an accident. As follow-on, North Korea announced that any act of retaliation by the South would be considered a provocation. When the South Korean
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A visit to the dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum of San Diego can provide the so-called mighty human with a humbling perspective. Creatures in the air, on land and in the sea all might have regarded him as nothing more than a tasty lunch. Luckily for man, he
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationCARLSBAD, California (Press Release) – The San Diego Jewish Music Series, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture will present in Carlsbad A Classical Evening with Piano and Violin, featuring Victor Stanislavsky, piano and Asi Matathias, violin. These two virtuoso Israeli musicians, Victor Stanislavsky and Asi Matathias, are emerging as an outstanding force in the
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Travel and FoodLONDON (Press Releases)–The President and Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA), Fernando Peláez-Pier and Mark Ellis, respectively, are concerned by the sustained professional and personal criticism of the eminent jurist Richard Goldstone, following publication of the report by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. Since the report was placed in
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–The University of Haifa will award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, to Mrs. Ruth Dayan during the University’s 38th Meeting of the Board of Governors, which will take place on June 1-3. The honorary doctorate will be conferred upon Mrs. Dayan in recognition of her longstanding contribution to Israel’s economic,
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)– StandWithUs, the international Israel education organization is extending an invitation for a five-star VIP tour of Israel to Elvis Costello to coincide with his wife Diana Krall’s performance on August 4 at Israel’s Ra’anana Amphitheater. StandWithUs is also offering to work around Costello’s schedule if that date is inconvenient. The
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Travel and FoodEmpowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Jewish Lights Publishing, ISBN 978-1-58023-412-2, ©2010, $18.99, p. 161 + appendices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–The word minyan in Jewish ritual corresponds to the idea of a quorum. Minyan means having at least ten men assembled together
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Fred Reiss, EdDBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Politicians lie. The devil is in the details. There is no justice. Lip service, as well as hyperbole or bombast, are prominent in political discourse. All of these expressions mean about the same thing. They are part of what we call politics. Politicians want to please. That is how they get
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LEMON GROVE, California – If you travel to Hamburg or Frankfurt in Germany, you’ll find that in neither place is a “hamburger” or a “frankfurter” a staple of local diets. Wouldn’t you think that in Lemon Grove, one could get a glass of fresh-made lemonade? Lido’s, a
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison JULIAN, California – Whites who had been slaveholders and blacks who had been slaves contributed to the early history of Julian. Today, in the colorful mountain town of gold mines, apples and antiques, both groups of people as well as other ethnic groups are remembered and honored. One of
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Donald H. HarrisonNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Agency has announced the appointment of Larry Weinberg to the newly-established position of Chief Communications Officer of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Currently working in the Agency’s Jerusalem headquarters, Mr. Weinberg will be based in New York reporting to Dr. Misha Galperin. On July 1, Galperin will become the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for calling on Chancellor Michael Drake of the University of California, Irvine to publicly condemn the Muslim Student Union’s speaker, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, for his frightening anti-Semitic speech on the campus last week, and also to publicly denounce the Muslim
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–The University of Haifa will award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, to Shaykh Mowafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, during the University’s 38th Meeting of the Board of Governors, which will take place on June 1-3. The honorary doctorate will be conferred upon Shaykh Tarif
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