By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will almost certainly return to Congress in January, but she barely broke 50% in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, which allows her to move on to the general election on November 8. Her rival, Don Samuels, mused in The New York Times, after conceding, “If this […]
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Jerry Klinger Passing through Indianapolis in early August, I had to stop at the Greatest Car Racing Track in the World, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I wanted to see “it.” The “it” was more than the dedicatory paver/brick I had placed for the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation outside the Museum. The big
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USA
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel has had primaries for the Labor Likud parties. There were changes in the line-ups of both. But most prominent was the success of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Likud. His close supporters did well, in filling eight of the first 13 places on the ticket. Bibi’s critics
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — When it comes to the topic of moschiach (messiah), there is no shortage of opinions. Some claim the messiah already came and is “coming back” one day to fulfill the entirety of messianic prophecies. Unfortunately, this is an unfalsifiable claim since it hinges on waiting for an undetermined point
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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — With apologies to Kal Mann and David Appell, late co-writers of the popular 1961 “Bristol Stomp” song… The profs in Bristol aimed a figurative pistol at Israel and found that Nina Freedman is just as sharp as a pistol. At times, anyway. Freedman’s complaint against a professor, when he
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Bruce Ticker, International, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) If a ceasefire holds, the latest fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza won’t have changed much in a conflict that’s already lasted a century. That’s something that should both discourage friends of Israel and hopefully focus them on the only issue that really matters when it comes to
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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — Johann Sebastian Bach composed six French Suites that began to be performed decades after the death of their author. In 2004, the non-musical French Suite, a novel about World War II, was published by the publishing house Denoel, translated into 38 languages. The book won France’s second most prestigious
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Alex Gordon, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, OpinionBy Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Currently, Israel is in the midst of what might be called an operation or a mini-war. It’s been going on for several days, and came in response to threats from Islamic Jihad in Gaza to attack Israel. That came in response to Israel’s arrest of an Islamic Jihad activist
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — My family’s association with soprano Ilona Domnitch goes back many years, to the 1980s, when my parents moved to Israel and were active in the activities of B’nai B’rith there. One of the projects which that organisation undertook at the time was to help new immigrants from Russia
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Opinion
By Doron Krakow SAN DIEGO — This week saw the return of the JCC Maccabi Games®. In this, its 40th year, the Games drew 1,600 Jewish teen athletes from 57 delegations and 67 JCCs across Canada and the U.S., as well as delegations from Bulgaria, Mexico, and Israel, to San Diego for a week of
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Doron Krakow, Opinion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Selwyn Isakow SAN DIEGO — This week we mark Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. So many tragedies have happened to the Jewish people on this date – the 9th of Av, including the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by the Greeks, and 656 years later the Romans destroyed
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, San Diego County
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — First, there was the Revolutionary War’s “shot heard ’round the world” in 1775. Then, there was Bobby Thomson’s shot heard ’round the world to win the 1951 National League pennant for the New York Giants. But for San Diego Jewish World this past year, the focus has been
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Jacob Kamaras, Opinion, San Diego CountyBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — As Andrea Mitchell interviewed her on MSNBC last Thursday, Lina Abu Akleh took advantage of her forum to accuse Israeli higher-ups of ordering a soldier to kill her aunt, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Mitchell asked Lina Abu Akleh during Andrea Mitchell Reports if the shooting was “intentional,” and the
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Colleges began offering “majors” and “minors” in sustainability in the first decade of the 21st century. Sustainability is taught as a multi-disciplinary program to approach complex problems, usually environmental. With that knowledge, it can offer various career possibilities. One of our son Saul’s best friends, Yonathan, majored in
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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food