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Lieberman writes book about U.S., Jewish basic laws

With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Senator Joe Lieberman with Rabbi Ari D. Kahn, Maggid Books and OU Press, New Milford, CT, © 2018, ISBN 978-1-59264-501-5, p. 165, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  An ancient midrash explains that just after the Israelites left Egypt, Moses told […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, USA

United Hatzalah certifies 34 women to serve Haredim

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Thirty four Haredi Women graduated a United Hatzalah EMT course on Thursday, joining the Women’s Unit of the organization. The newly trained EMTs will be tasked with providing emergency medical care as first responders to women in the Haredi communities of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Director of United Hatzalah’s Women’s

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

U.S. should make NATO- like pledge to Israel

This is the second part of an article examining the volatile Iran-Israel relationship.  To see Part I, please click here. By Alon Ben-Meir   NEW YORK — The recent violation of Israel’s air space by an Iranian drone and Israel’s retaliation against Syrian and Iranian targets prompted many observers to suggest that the growing regional

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USA

Museum examines war bravery, Holocaust brutality

    Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of stories based on editor Donald Harrison’s 50th anniversary cruise with his wife Nancy from Sydney, Australia, back to San Diego, and the people they met and places they visited along the way. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – Dedicated as the Maccabean

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food

Is Israel isolated?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Our friends are worried. Young American Jews are in danger of disappearing via intermarriages at rates of 50 percent or more. Many are ill informed and disinterested in Israel. Key figures in AIPAC have come out in support of a Palestinian State, against sentiments in the Israeli government. Many Democrats,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Jewish solons condemn Holocaust law in Poland

SACRAMENTO, California – The California Legislative Jewish Caucus on Wednesday, March 14,  introduced AJR-35 condemning a new law in Poland subjecting individuals who cite the participation of Poles in Nazi crimes to imprisonment for up to three years, despite the historical record of this collaboration. “The Law on the Institute of National Remembrance is an attempt

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International, Jewish History, USA

Iran, Israel have good reasons to avoid war

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The recent violation of Israel’s air space by an Iranian drone and Israel’s retaliation against Syrian and Iranian targets prompted many observers to suggest that the growing regional tension resulting from such incidents may precipitate a war between Israel and Iran/Hezbollah, and perhaps inadvertently with Syria as well. I

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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East

No Israel elections afterall!

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I learnt today (Tuesday, March 13) that, to make sure that I don’t misinform you, I should only comment on events in Israel long after they happen. What seemed quite plausible, perhaps even certain, this afternoon turned out to be false and irrelevant only hours later. After Prime Minister Netanyahu’s

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Middle East

Community says farewell to Gussie Zaks, z”l

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—At a packed funeral service Tuesday, March 13,  at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the community bade a final farewell to San Diego’s First Lady of Holocaust Survivors, Gussie Zaks. The longtime lecturer, organizer, and educator—who had told her story of survival countless times to students, club members, law enforcement, and

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County

Netanyahu may want new election

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — When, not if, the current government of Israel breaks up, the formal cause of it will the stance of Avigdor Lieberman, the defense minister and leader of the Yisrael Beitinu party. As the protector, in his ministerial capacity, of universal conscription, which the ultra-Orthodox seek to challenge by introducing legislation

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Middle East

Rabbi makes a deal with God, survives the Holocaust

By Beth Sarafraz BROOKLYN, New York — On a Sunday morning, June 22, 1941, the Nazis invaded Lithuania. The gentile population was ecstatic to hear the news and, after church services that day, celebrated Hitler’s troops goose-stepping over the border into their country. Each town and village greeted the Nazis with bouquets of flowers as

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion