By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — I traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan the end of last month, to be at my granddaughter, Hannah Gail Schiff’s graduation from the University of Michigan. I was pleased that she attended this institution that numbers many Jews among its faculty and student body. It also boasts one of the strongest […]
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Eileen Wingard, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANew York real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump may have sewn up the Republican nomination, but he”s trailing his likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, by double digits in hypothetical matchups. In the latest CNN/ORC poll Hillary beat Trump 54% to 41%, well outside of the poll”s 3% margin of error. Even
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Friendship Walk 2016 and the Israel Fest will be held Sunday, May 15, at San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Rd., San Diego. People with and without special needs are invited to run, jog, walk or roll on the wheelchair and stroller friendly 5K walk route. Afterwards, they may join in the
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The past few months of national politics have been dominated by speculation that the Republican National Convention could turn ugly. It now appears the Democrats are headed toward their own version of convention conflict. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has run an unexpectedly tough campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wrote a letter
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USAWASHINGTON — With his prospects of becoming the Democratic nominee for president fading, Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for what he thinks is the next best thing: the party platform. It’s a document of policy positions and goals few are likely to read and the White House will barely notice. But Sanders hopes it will
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SAN ANTONIO, May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ten years and three months after its founding, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization, has crossed the three million member mark. The news comes on the heels of an exceptional year for the Christian Zionist group, including the creation of a permanent Washington DC
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Middle East, USAOne night last summer, Jeffrey Tanenhaus did in Manhattan what people in New York do about 35,000 times each day: He unlocked a Citi Bike from a bike-share station. With more than 300 such kiosks sprinkled mostly around Manhattan and Brooklyn, Citi Bike had become New York’s newest mode of transportation, and one of its
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USAIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is surprisingly popular in the United States, ranking among the top 10 most admired men. According to a poll published Saturday by the UK-based YouGov polling service, Netanyahu was tied with the Dalai Lama as the 9th most admired man in the United States. That ranking put him ahead of
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Martin Luther King III, the son of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. and President of the Drum Major Institute, held a special ceremony Sunday to honor Ethiopian-Israeli community activists. King held the event along with Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky. Honorees included singer Idan Raichel,
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International, Middle East, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I write this the AOL news feed has forty-two items – fourteen of which are about the activities of various “celebrities” – including the clothing they wear (and malfunctions thereof), their romantic/marital escapades, legal and criminal entanglements, as well as their political opinions. Why a “celebrity’s” political opinion is
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, EU, UN, and Russia, is scheduled to release a major policy report later in coming weeks, and senior diplomats involved in its drafting have indicated that the US is taking a far harder line on Israel than in the past. The report, which is likely to
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After not visiting Israel for nine years, Hany Baransi, the owner of the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio, needed to be home in Haifa surrounded by family who would understand what he’s been going through lately — terrorism. On February 11, Baransi’s popular restaurant was attacked by a machete-wielding assailant. The attacker, 30-year-old
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Middle East, USAJewish lawyer David Friedman defended his decision to advise Donald Trump on Israel in a savage op-ed Friday, after fellow Jew Peter Beinart accused him and Trump exploiting Jewish interests for political capital. Beinart leveled the harsh criticism in an op-ed for the left-leaning Israeli paper Haaretz, saying Friedman was lending Trump legitimacy among Jews
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It seems appropriate to call these two contenders for the world’s most powerful office by their first names, Donald and Hillary. Even this far away from their campaigns, where the news is usually about something else, we’ve been listening for more than a year to a great deal of commentary, along
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