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Haaretz cartoon depicts Netanyahu flying plane into World Trade Center (JNS.org) The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is drawing condemnation for publishing a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane marked “Israel” into a building that resembles a World Trade Center tower. Underneath artist Amos Biderman’s cartoon, Haaretz provides a link to a story on […]

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger, shewritespress.com, 2014, 978-1-63152-907-8, 301 pgs.,$16.95 By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Recently nominated by The American Library Association for its yearly Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature, this moving novel revisits one of the bleakest periods, not just in Jewish memory, but in world history.  In this debut work, Sande

Sweden officially recognizes a Palestinian state (JNS.org) Sweden on Thursday officially recognized a Palestinian state, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that the “criteria of international law” have been met because there is “a [Palestinian] territory, a people, and government,” The Associated Press reported. New Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had supported a Palestinian state

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Honky is coming to the REP, opening Nov 7 th. I recently spoke with its white playwright, Greg Kalleres. He grew up in an upper-middle class suburb of Indianapolis. There are very clear-cut lines dividing the demographics of neighborhoods in this society. Which side of “the tracks” you grow

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Joe Kashnow, Baltimore native, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002.  He was stationed in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division of Colorado.  He had a dream of becoming a Comanche pilot, manning helicopters.  One year later, Kashnow was the victim of roadside bomb.  By 2005, the young

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Ivo Lederer was a refugee in a group of European Jews given special passage by ship to the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and he later went on to became a well-known Russian and Eastern European scholar in America. He also gave the

Palestinians say they will not postpone U.N. Security Council petition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat on Thursday denied reports that the Palestinians were willing to postpone by two months a petition to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank by November 2016.

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