By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Elliott Abrams, who has had a distinguished career in the United States and still serves on its Council of Foreign Relations, lectured in Jerusalem on Tuesday. His subject was the current relationship between the State of Israel and American Jewry. What follows isn’t a report of what he said […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA-This story has been updated- By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Three Jewish candidates in California’s June 5 primary election made it into the history books – one to his delight, and two others to their dismay. Delighted was Steve Poizner, who ran as an independent, yet placed first for the upcoming November runoff
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Makom Board have named Abi Dauber Sterne as the new director of Makom — the Israel Education Lab. Makom educates leaders and creates content to embrace the vibrant complexity of Israel: the people, the place and the promise. Sterne comes to Makom from
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, only 42, was shot several times in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just before midnight on June 4, 1968. He had just won the California Democratic presidential primary and seemed destined for the nomination. He lingered through the next day,
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Obituaries & memorials, USABEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — The first National Knowledge Center for the Study of Rare/Orphan Genetic Diseases has been established at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), in collaboration with Soroka University Medical Center and supported by the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology. The Center will advance research in rare genetic diseases by providing researchers with resources
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s good that American Jews still concern themselves with Israel. One can hope for better information among them, and more sanity at the extremes. Being Jews, however, those are probably hopes to be frustrated. The range of what we hear isn’t all that different from what Israelis express. Likewise, the
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Good Heart by Alan Newman, Gefen Publishing House, © 2018, ISBN 9789652-299550; 251 pages including acknowledgments, glossary, and author’s biography, $15.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along. Among the central characters in this ode
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Twenty-five health care practitioners from around the world are currently taking part in a two-week course in dealing with Mass Casualty Situations (MCS) at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. They join more than 500 decision-makers and field personnel in the field of trauma from 61 countries have completed Rambam’s international
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – To fellow aviators, perhaps, Elgen M. Long is best known as the man who in 1971 first flew around the world over both the North and South Poles. Additionally, he is admired for his research into the disappearance of aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937
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By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – Whenever I go to the San Diego County Fair, I like to head for the area where they display hobbies. My pleasure is to find bits of Judaica in the various collections on display. Two years ago, for example, I found miniature books of tehillim in a
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By Oliver B. Pollak HANNOVER, Germany and TEREZIN, Czech Republic — Our roots trip has dispersed with cousins going separate ways to Berlin, Munich, and Rome. My party of five headed to Hannover and Theresienstadt, a path my grandfather took in 1942 and in reverse in 1945. Grandfather, Dr. Felix Bachmann, with his new English
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By Sandi Masori DEL MAR, California — We went on Friday to the media night/ opening night of the San Diego County Fair, (which I can’t help myself, but it will always be the Del Mar Fair to me). This year my youngest, Sky, age 11, came with us and had a great time tasting his
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — In an interview with The Times of Israel, U.S. Ambassador David Friedman set off a partisan firestorm when he told the news organization that Republicans are better friends to Israel than are Democrats. “The argument that I hear from some Democrats that Republicans are seizing the pro-Israel mantle is true, to a
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Pres Release) — Jewish National Fund on Friday revealed its new Plant Your Way website that easily allows individuals to raise money for a future trip to Israel while helping build the land of Israel. First introduced in 2000, Plant Your Way has allowed many hundreds of young people a personal fundraising platform to
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