Ruth Mastron, the president of the House of Israel in Balboa Park, has had an active love affair with that nation since 2008, the year she first volunteered to work for three weeks on an Israeli Army base. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Published by Reuters By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Turmoil in the occupied West Bank, where violence between Jewish settlers and Palestinians is spiraling, is making Israel’s goal of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia “a lot tougher, if not impossible,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. The Biden administration
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Middle East
In an interview, Ganley drew upon two nautical analogies to deliver the message that members of Jewish institutions should continually train themselves to counter threats. “When does the Navy stop painting a ship?” he asks rhetorically. “Never,” he answered. “We have to approach training the same way. Repetition builds muscle memory.” The same might be said about reading the Torah. As soon as we finish reading the concluding fifth book, Deuteronomy, we immediately begin again reading the first book, Genesis, so that the cycle of learning never ends. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — StandWithUs, an international, non-partisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, has announced Oz Laniado as the new Executive Director of StandWithUs Southwest. In addition to San Diego County, the expanded region under Laniado’s oversight now includes Rancho Mirage, Orange County, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. Laniado served
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Israel, San Diego County
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Some of my readers are no doubt upset by Jewish Israelis’ recent attacks on Palestinian villages. Though I admit that there may have been some overreaction by Israeli villagers living beyond the 1949 Armistice Line, there is ample reason for Israelis taking action into their own hands. What
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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Almost immediately I shuddered when I switched on the television Wednesday night and learned that U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was censured by the House of Representatives. I felt as if I was watching a replay of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus and Leo Frank. It sounds like a
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
For Jewish fans who attended the San Diego Padres game against the Washington Nationals on Sunday, June 25, the Padres’ loss by a score of 8-3 wasn’t a total disaster. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
Koufax, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, an outstanding major-league pitcher, was slated to play a leading role. Specifically, he was scheduled to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Minnesota Twins in the first game of the best-of-seven series for the World Championship. But due to an accident (?) of fate or faith (religious observance), that was also the day on which Yom Kippur fell that year. [Joel H. Cohen]
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Jewish History, Joel H. Cohen, Sports & Competitions, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson I left my homeland of England about 60 years ago and came to live in Israel for a variety of reasons, one of them being the weather. The England that I left behind was a fairly stable country with regard to the composition of its population, which was largely white. There were,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Israel, Lifestyles, OpinionBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — The New York Times headline, “Fanning the Embers After a Fiery Speech,” is hardly explicit. It does not convey the meaning of the story that follows, and the story is relegated to a back section of the June 4 Sunday edition six days after another NYC newspaper broke the
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
Published by DPA Four people were killed in an attack on Tuesday near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, paramedics said. Another four people were injured by gunfire, the Israeli Magen David Adom ambulance service said. All eight victims were Israelis. According to the Israeli military, two suspected Palestinian attackers opened fire on a
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Israel
Jack Cohen, a retired U.S. Forest Service fire research scientist who lives in Missoula, Montana, passionately contends that for centuries the United States has dealt with wildfires all wrong. Instead of spending billions of dollars to put the fires out wherever they may occur, efforts should be prioritized to make homes and other structures as invulnerable as possible to flying embers, he insists. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Artist Joseph Pisano won First Place and a Best of Show Award in the Miscellaneous Three-Dimensional Art category at this year’s San Diego County Fair for replicating a detail of Michelangelo’s work utilizing between 3,000 and 4,000 drywall screws to depict the hands of God and Adam about to touch. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
Published by Reuters (Reuters) -A jury on Friday found Robert Bowers guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes for the killing of 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Bowers, 50, now faces the penalty phase of his trial at the U.S. District Court in
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