Four boys’ names from Hebrew Bible make San Diego County’s top 10 in 2018 Four names from the Hebrew Bible made the top 10 for boys born in San Diego County during 2018, according to records on file with the county Health and Human Services Agency. These were Noah in second place with 202 instances, […]
Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 3, 2019 (4 items) Read More »
Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Barbara Bry announces candidacy for San Diego Mayor in 2020 election Barbara Bry, one of two Jewish members of the nine-member San Diego City Council, has announced her candidacy for mayor of San Diego in the 2020 election. The incumbent mayor, Kevin Faulconer, will be termed out. “Instead of making decisions designed to preserve a
Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 2, 2019 (7 items) Read More »
International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Individuals who feel uncomfortable in their marriages often assume that the grass is greener elsewhere. It doesn’t need much of an upheaval for a partner to act on that fantasy and leave the existing union in the hope of greater success elsewhere. I can think of no better metaphor
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Middle East
Brazil to move its embassy to Jerusalem Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro will move his country’s embassy to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced during a meeting with Jewish leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Netanyahu explained, “Mr. Bolsonaro said, ‘I will move the embassy to Jerusalem. It’s not a question of if, just a question of
Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 31, 2018 (3 items) Read More »
International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Chaos in both of my countries. Israel’s government collapses, and calls an election for April 9th. The US government is wrapped up in a dispute about the wall, pull out from Syria, and several other claims about the President. Israel’s election came under dispute about a bill for drafting Haredim,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Bennett and Shaked bolt Jewish Home party to create party called ‘The New Right’ Jewish Home party leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, also of the Jewish Home, announced the formation of a new political party ahead of the upcoming national election in April, calling it “The New Right.” Addressing
Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 29, 2018 Read More »
International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Gary E. Jacobs SAN DIEGO — As 2018 draws to a close, and I reflect on my first six months as board chair of JCC Association of North America, let me share some of the highlights of my year. Together, these are the things that provide meaning and measure as to why the JCC
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — To tip or not to tip? That is the question. And that is a subject that has occupied my thoughts inordinately for the last few days as the result of something that I witnessed with my own eyes. Until recently my Other Half (OH) and I regarded one
Bad service, no tip, and now what? Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Travel and FoodU.S. State Department supports Israel’s military action against Iranian forces in Syria The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Thursday: “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Iranian regional actions that endanger Israeli national security and the safety of the Israeli people. Iranian support of and supply to terrorist
Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 28, 2018 (5 items) Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — The pushke in my grandma’s kitchen, blue and white, with Hebrew lettering, sat in the corner of the counter. It was not remarkable; I saw the same one or similar ones in the houses of most of my relatives. In those days, in the infancy of the State of
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Knesset passes law forbidding convicted terrorists from being released from prison early The Knesset passed a law on Tuesday night that will prevent the early release of convicted terrorists serving sentences in prison. The legislation, proposed by MKs Anat Berko (Likud) and Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu), will deny terrorists the ability to be released after
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The day after it was announced that Israelis will go to the polls on April 9, a headline in the Times of Israel read: “Early election timing likely more to do with graft-dodging than draft-dodging.” Though the formal reason for holding the election ahead of time was that the coalition
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — The annual debate in Israel about the placement of Christmas trees in malls or hotels – this year in Ashdod – shouldn`t fool anyone. For most Israeli Jews, the holiday season is celebrated in the Hebrew month of Tishrei, not in December. For a significant majority of Israeli Jews (78%), December
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East
By Debra Shushan, PhD WASHINGTON, D.C.. — As part of a group of non-Israeli academics assembled by Tel Aviv University, I visited the Temple Mount in July 2017. On the next day, two Israeli border police officers were shot there in a terror attack. I had the opportunity to make a condolence visit to Hurfeish,
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Middle East, USA