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Israel and Australia sign new work visa deal (JNS.org) Israel and Australia signed an agreement on Wednesday that will allow young adults from both countries to get work visas from the other. The deal was part of a recent effort to secure work arrangements for young Israelis abroad, to prevent them from getting in legal […]

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – San Diego’s internationally recognized San Diego Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 20th year with headliner Ari Shavit.  Book Fair events will run from November 8 through November 16, and are presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS.

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — After forty rigorous  years of dancing and teaching ballet, and needing to fill time and space in my life with other activities, I’ve gone back to several I loved even before the immersion in dance.  I discovered these initially in kindergarten: painting, drawing, handwork, writing and singing. Recently a

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. This is part three of a five-part series, The Seven States of Loss and Healing. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Disbelief Maybe Maybe it’s all a mistake maybe it wasn’t real maybe it was a bad

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon looking to ‘manage’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict (JNS.org) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said in an interview with Israel Hayom published Wednesday that he is “not looking for a solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but instead “looking for a way to manage the conflict.” Asked if Israel can consider Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud

By Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — A recent New Yorker cartoon depicts a taciturn President Obama peering out the door of his private White House bedroom and speaking to two little trick-or-treaters:  “I’ll give you all the candy you want if you just tell me how you got past the Secret Service agents outside. An

Temple Mount policy will treat Muslims and Jews equally, minister says (JNS.org) After the latest Islamic riots on the Temple Mount, Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch warned that further disturbances will prompt Muslims to be prohibited from entering the compound. Muslim violence at the Temple Mount has come to a boil over Jewish visits

Temple Mount attack foiled after police storm Al-Aqsa mosque (JNS.org) Jerusalem Police units stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound early Monday and prevented dozens of masked assailants from carrying out a planned attack. The assailants had gathered on the Temple Mount with rocks and fireworks. Overnight, the assailants gathered weapons and prepared Molotov cocktails inside the

Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman, published 2009. By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — While framing the United States Constitution, the Founding Fathers learned a startling fact about themselves and the States they represented: they were all Christians yet they were unable to define what that

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “And how does that make you feel?” I asked David Ellenstein as we chatted in the rehearsal space of North Coast Repertory Theater. I, in the chair, notepad in hand, and David, director of “Freud’s Last Session” on the chaise. And so began our fifty-minute-hour interview about this imaginary