By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–One of the attractions of living in Israel is the feeling of participation in the wider world of the Jewish people. It is also one of the problems. An American friend sent me the following, which came to him from a non-Orthodox rabbi: . . . send a message to BIBI telling
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–With creative inspiration drawn from traditional Chinese culture, Shen Yun Performances presented a remarkable spectacle at the Civic Theatre last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The final show will be tonight. The gorgeous handmade costumes and the breathtaking digital animated backdrops enhanced the sumptuous visual feast. Silken sleeves, cloud-like fans, archers’ bows
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Eileen Wingard, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is the transcript of remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a reception for Hannah Rosenthal, the special envoy to combat worldwide anti-Semitism. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I don’t think I need to say a word. (Laughter.) It is such a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you here
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) –The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, under the leadership of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, its founder and president, announced a donation of $1.1 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel to support the network of Jewish day schools in the former Soviet Union. This comes in addition to the $400,000 in support to
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Plans for 300 Year Celebration In Making Southwestern Jewish Press, September 17, Page 1 Mayor John D. Butler this week took official cognizance of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America and issued a Tercentenary proclamation. The proclamation states that the theme of the observance, man’s opportunities
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Middle EastBy Franklin Gaylis SAN DIEGO — Several thousand years of Jewish history has been extremely well documented. What about our personal family’s history over the past few hundred years? This is the question I asked myself when our children were born in the USA after my wife Jean, and I emigrated in 1982 from South
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By Jay Tell ENCINO, California–Just when you’re on top of the world, you get blindsided. I was 21, in LA two years, my stamp and coin business was growing. I’d not smoked, but tried cigarillos. In the mirror I saw tiny specks on my chest, tried to flick off the dust, but it didn’t budge.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel is a normal country, but is strained to preserve that status against the rest of the world that is even less normal. That is not a sentence one would expect from a confirmed social scientist. It does not make sense according to the elemental rules of logic, but it does
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Israel’s and one of the world’s first scholarly journals on the Holocaust, published in conjunction with the University of Haifa’s Institute for Holocaust Research since 1979, is now being published in English as well as the original Hebrew. Dapim: Studies on the Shoah, The Journal of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews: “This is the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Community Mourns Passing of George Neumann Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, page 1 George Neumann, prominent San Diego resident since 1918, died on Aug. 24 at age 69. Mr. Neumann was associated with many local and national organizations and played an active part in philanthropy in
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Adventures in SD History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Victor Stanislavsky presented an exciting recital on June 17 at the Dove Library in Carlsbad. This concert was part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Music Series and was underwritten by the Leichtag Foundation. The two young Israeli artists shared their formidable talents
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