By Zev Bar-Lev SAN DIEGO – A student, let’s call her Ida, says: “I find the Hebrew language completely opaque, as if hidden from me by a thick curtain. I’ve memorized the whole alphabet, all the shapes & their sounds, but I can’t make much out of words, much less sentences—even with a bunch of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Lawrence Krause ENCINITAS, California — As regrettable as it may be, the plan for two states to co-exist in peace on the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea is truly dead. Events on the ground have proclaimed its death. Failure to recognize its demise only strengthens the forces that killed it.
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Most people are convinced that there are comparatively few Jews in the world, only about 13.3 million in 2001, about 1.4 percent of the world population. Of these 4.9 million lived in Israel and 8.3 million outside the Holy Land. Logic would dictate that the actual
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International, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Nahama, the wife of President Reuven Rivlin, died after a protracted illness. She was a great person, well educated and involved in numerous social welfare activities. There was several days of hearing good things about her, and at least one comment that it should have been Sara. And the parties
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Navras J. Aafreedi. Ph.D KOLKATA, India –The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into seventy languages, including a few South Asian ones. These include Hindi, the official link language of India and the fourth most widely spoken language with 341 million speakers; Bengali, the national language of Bangladesh and the fifth most widely
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Zionism is Jewish intersectionality and genuine progressivism. It is the diversity of the incoming, the answer to three millennium of Jewish victimhood. It is where left and right, black, white and brown, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, religious and secular, intersect, come together in defense of our self preservation, to celebrate
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Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Just as some California Democrats sought to blame Israel for all plagues and earthquakes, Palestinians were denied Israeli hospital care – by their own leaders. The Israeli embassy in London was accused by a Labour Party official of “whipping” charges of anti-Semitism. As if Jewish Brits needed their help.
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Middle East, USABy Ron Klein WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jewish voters are voting their values, and disapprove of Trump’s handling of nearly every issue. According to a non-partisan poll of 1,000 Jewish voters commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute (JEI) in May, Jews overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump’s policies on nearly every issue because they are inconsistent with Jewish
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The return of Israel to election mode is no reason to change the Trump administration’s plans for the U.S.-led economic conference set for Bahrain in late June. The Palestinian decision to boycott the meeting certainly is no reason to change — or cancel — it. It needs only a few tweaks to
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
San Diego Jewish World has learned of the death of Nechama Rivlin, 73, from lung disease. We extend our deepest condolences to her husband, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, and to the rest of the Rivlin family on this occasion. May her memory always be for a blessing!
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The phenomenon of genocide has baffled historians for many generations. The question that has been and continues to be asked is what goes through the minds of leaders, however despotic and ruthless, to conclude that committing genocide against their real or perceived enemies will provide them with salvation that
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a conversation with American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris, discussed the U.S.-Israel relationship, Israeli-Palestinian peace process, continuing Iranian and Hezbollah threats, UN treatment of Israel, and efforts to combat anti-Semitism. A segment of the interview was shown for the first time Monday,
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In his new book, Chazara bli teshuva – paraphrased in English as “the philosophic roots of the secular-religious divide” – Micah Goodman, whose praises I never fail to sing, makes an important distinction between influence and domination. To be influenced, he writes, is to grow and to develop as
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Several days of uncertainty. Netanyahu could not form a government, with his deadline approaching. He had 42 days to do it. A conflict between Lieberman and the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) seemed at the heart of the problem. Principally a matter of enforced enlistment, and punishment of Yishivot whose students did not
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