EIN GEV, Israel (Press Release) — Every year during Pesach, hundreds of thousands of people visit the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and Magen David Adom is preparing accordingly by strengthening the forces in the area with an MDA Jet-Ski, which will be in operation from the beginning of the Pesach vacation in the
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This is the fourth in a series of stories developed during Don & Nancy’s golden anniversary trip to Australia and cruise back to San Diego. To read previous stories in the series, please click on their corresponding number: 1, 2, 3. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – There are a number of fascinating places
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flurries swirling around this tiny country are uncertainties about its future. Some see our destiny dependent on reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. However, Palestinians have been saying no for more than 80 years, and are currently on the cusp of another civil war among who knows how
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World likes to present a broad spectrum of opinion, and for that reason we published a column today by Michael Hayutin in which he takes issue with protesters, including those students who have been organizing marches around the country to demand serious efforts be made
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) –Following a message from a professor on San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas’ (AMED) Facebook page calling the welcoming of pro-Israel students a ‘declaration of war,’ 60 organizations and many concerned citizens demanded an investigation. California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and SFSU President Leslie
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By Mike Hayutin SAN DIEGO — Activists will tell us that protest is the purest form of patriotism. Sounds pretty noble doesn’t it? Academics, primarily agenda driven leftists, encourage kids to march as a symbol of commitment. I suggest a more profound form of patriotism as a predicate before protest. How about gratitude? The former
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USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The first Orthodox Jewish member of the U.S, Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who ran for U.S. Vice President in 2000, has just published a book of philosophical essays related to counting the Omer. The book, With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day From Egypt to Sinai, (Maggid/OU Press),
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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Three young men crossed the border at Gaza and were found wandering on Israeli territory in the hope of being jailed here. They reckoned, so I heard a commentator explain, that life in an Israeli prison is better than the life they now have in ostensible freedom in Gaza.
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –This April, millions of college students across the country will engage with a coalition of pro-Israel organizations to mark the Jewish State’s 70th birthday with Tel Aviv beach party-style celebrations at more than 160 university campuses across the U.S. and Canada including San Diego State University and UC San Diego. The
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — What’s it like to be in Israel where, according to a 2017 Jewish People Policy Institute survey, 97% of Israeli Jews host or participate in a Passover Seder? If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out “alter zachen” (‘old things’) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastUne Vie (One Life) by Simone Veil, (c) 2017, Stock, France. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — On the cover of Simone Veil’s autobiography, written in 2007, we read that she is a member of the Academie Francaise, though this is not mentioned in the book. It would seem that after a long and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Pigeons played an important role in turning the Byzantine Negev into a flourishing region 1,500 years ago. This is the conclusion of a new study held at the Institute of Archeology at the University of Haifa that was published Monday in the prestigious journal PlosOne. The study, which concentrated on
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A Palestinian used his car as a weapon and drove into a cluster of soldiers alongside an IDF base in the West Bank. He killed two and injured two others. A few days later, a Palestinian stabbed a security guard in Jerusalem’s Old City. Those were the third, fourth, and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Billionaire and philanthropist, Ronald Lauder, a regular and massive contributor to Jewish and Israeli charities, made the most bewildering statement in the New York Times: “…the Jewish democratic state faces two grave threats that I believe could endanger its very existence…The first threat is the possible demise of the two-state
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