By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — More than a week ago, the police recommended indictments of a half-dozen prominent Israelis. The issue concerned the purchase of submarines and other warships from Thyssen Krupp, a German firm in the port of Kiel. Involved in the police recommendation were a cousin and attorney of The Prime Minister, a former […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastKentucky governor receives StandWithUs plauditsStandWithUs has commended Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin for signing into law an executive order barring state agencies from doing business with companies which boycott Israel. The new executive order prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel and other countries with which the U.S. has free trade agreements. During the
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International, Middle East, USABy David Ogul SAN DIEGO — It’s all about equality. That was the message from Cheryl Temkin, an executive member of the Speakers Bureau for the Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall, who was the featured speaker Nov. 16 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego following Kabbalat Shabbat services. Just months after Israeli paratroopers liberated Jerusalem’s
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David Ogul, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Howard Wayne SAN DIEGO — More than a week has passed since the last ballot was cast in the 2018 election. We know that Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and that Republicans strengthened their numbers in the Senate with a net increase of one or two members. Democrats have a net gain
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San Diego County, USA
By Ron Klein BOCA RATON, Florida — The blue wave that emerged on November 6 is looking a lot more like Hanukkah come early than Christmas, as it’s a wave that miraculously is still crashing more than eight days after the election. In the past few days, we have seen two more wins for JDCA-endorsed
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USABy Doron Krakow PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — On Tuesday, more than 100 Jewish community leaders from across the continent gathered in Pittsburgh for a day of solidarity with the beleaguered Jewish community there, just 17 days after the massacre of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Squirrel Hill. We came representing Jewish federations, Jewish family
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Jewish History, USABy Jack Rosen NEW YORK — All politics are local, goes the famous axiom. What affects us most personally closely shapes how we vote. While American Jews live in every state in the nation, the tragedy in Pittsburgh, in which 11 worshippers were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue by an anti-Semite just days
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — That’s the worst sentence to write: “Hamas wins.” The people of the Gaza Strip lose. The people of Israel lose. The State of Israel remains to be seen, but for now, it loses, as well. To deal in realities, Hamas has won, and the implications carry forward. The resignation
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — No sooner did Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to agree on a ceasefire with Hamas become public – allegedly it was made out of fear that a full-scale war with the inevitable casualties would cost him many votes in the next general election – when Avigdor Lieberman (Evet to his family
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Middle East
Editor’s Note: This is the 37th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met
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Eva Trieger, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
American Jewish Committee seeks nationwide effort to combat hate crimes The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling for a concerted government effort to combat hate crimes. The call to action comes after the FBI issued its latest annual report, which showed a 17 percent increase in hate crimes during 2017, compared to the year before.
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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — We had a second round of elections for mayor of Jerusalem. In the first round, none of the four candidates got the required minimum, so the two top contenders, Ofer Berkovitch and Moshe Lion, had to go for a second round. I voted for Berkovitch not because of his
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Middle East
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — Anti-Semitism has been called the oldest form of hatred. In America, we are now witnessing a horrifying escalation of anti-Semitic violence, such as cemetery desecration, vandalization of Jewish schools and synagogues and inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric on college campuses. This week, CBS News reported the existence of a prom night
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA