By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Take a female newspaper reporter in Manhattan named Rebekah Roberts covering a murder in the Hasidic community — where a recent murder has everyone talking — and you’ve got a very good and probing debut novel by CBSNews.com reporter Julia Dahl. Released in May,, Invisible City is a […]
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Travel and FoodBRUSSELS (Press Release) — Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged a fight against extremism at an AJC Transatlantic Institute dinner Wednesday night, June 25. While acknowledging the immense challenges facing his country since 2008, including nearly 60 percent youth unemployment, he presented a generally optimistic outlook for Greece. He said that “extremism of all kinds
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-California) on Wednesday, June 25, praised the passage of their resolution honoring the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 that permanently protected the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove. “In 1864, in the middle of the
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LOS ANGELES (SDJW) — Singer Merry Clayton, who was featured in the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom “has a long road to recovery” from a June 16 automobile accident in Los Angeles, according to manager and record producer Alan V. Abrahams. In a note sent Wednesday, June 25, to San Diego Jewish World, he verified
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a hearing to examine AT&T’s proposed acquisition of DirecTV, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) raised concerns about the ongoing trend toward media consolidation in the telecom industry and said the deal needed careful scrutiny to determine if it’s in the best interest of consumers. At the hearing, which was
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–With hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous donors being spent to secretly influence this year’s elections, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and 49 other senators to introduce the DISCLOSE Act of 2014. The bill would crack down on so-called “dark money” by requiring organizations that
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– San Diego’s internationally recognized San Diego Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 20th year, starting with the summer book fair event on July 24th at 7:00 p.m. with award-winning New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva and his newest novel, The Heist “A Conversation with Daniel Silva” will be presented
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)– The Beit Guvrin caves and the ancient town of Maresha in central Israel were recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a heritage site on Sunday, June 22, during its 38th World Heritage Committee in Doha, Qatar. The man-made caves, known for their unique ‘bell
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Middle East, Travel and FoodIDF uncovers secret tunnels, explosives labs in West Bank (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Combat Engineering Corps uncovered numerous secret underground compartments in Palestinian homes during the course of the ongoing search for three Israeli teens kidnapped in the West Bank. Engineering Corps special forces discovered the secret compartments in various locations, in one
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) applauded a report released Friday, June 20, by the Department of Justice that calls for passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to fully repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. The report details the ongoing implementation of United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court decision
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–At least eight Orthodox Jewish institutions, joined by the Jewish Federation of San Diego, are sponsoring a community tefillah rally to “bring back our boys” at 11 a.m., Sunday, June 22, at Southern California Yeshiva (SCY) High School, 3410 Mt. Acadia Blvd., in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego. Expected to last
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Travel and FoodDETROIT, Michigan (WJC) — A committee of the Presbyterian Church in the United States on Tuesday, June 17, adopted a resolution endorsing divestment from three American companies that allegedly “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.” The Middle East Issues Committee voted by 45-20 to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. The resolution likely
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) made the case at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee meeting on Wednesday, June 18, for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and help fix our nation’s broken campaign finance system. At the meeting, he continued his fight to restore democracy to average Minnesotans
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –That’s really scary, I said to Heather, my forty-six-year-old trainer. I don’t want to do this. Heather insisted, it was not about a new set of exercises that she was promoting, it was for me to get online on a dating site. As I was resisting, stating huge
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