Editor’s Note: Sha’ar Hanegev, the sister region of San Diego’s Jewish Federation, lies along Israel’s border with Gaza and has been suffering the effects of the constant rocket attacks from across the border. By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My correspondents on the East Coast of the United States may view this note as a parallel to waiting […]
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Travel and FoodBy Daniel Brodsky SAN DIEGO — For many years I have been awed by the writings and speeches of Caroline Glick, the formidable Jerusalem Post columnist. If you could read only one Israeli reporter’s news, it would have to be Glick. In her biweekly commentaries she “spot-on” analyzes events as they unfold both globally and
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — We had a big house on top of a hill with a view over the distant ocean and winter sunsets. It was an old house and a week didn’t go by that something had to be fixed. Most times my husband could do it but other
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present its first series of concerts of the 2012-13 season on Sunday, November 18 at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday the 20th at 7:30 pm. Both concerts will be at the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall. These programs will feature Armando Pesqueira as guest conductor, and pianist Kanae
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Before I entered the classroom that evening, I already knew that Zalman would come prepared with some dazzling piece of scholarship. The regular reader of this column will remember that last week, the fourth session of the class I was leading using the book of Genesis to study
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Travel and FoodNorway is West’s most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel country, historian says (JNS.org) A major Norwegian historian and diplomat accused her own country of being “the most anti-Semitic country in the West” and attacked it for “biased support for only the Palestinian views” at a Jerusalem event on Tuesday. “The degree of anti-Israelism in Norway today
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RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) — The Bar Ilan University “Israel Experience” GAP year has welcomed its largest group of students from San Diego. Bat-El Darey, Reena Moyal, Aaron Alpert and Rick Saxe have begun a year of undergraduate studies at the University’s campus near Tel Aviv. ‘Israel XP’ students take Jewish studies seminars in the
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Travel and FoodAlan Safier’s one-man show perpetuates the legend of comics George Burns (born Naftaly Birnbaum) and Gracie Allen (Burns’s wife). JNS.org interviewed Safier on his play and author Lawrence Epstein on Burns’s Jewish background. By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Born in Cleveland—where George Burns and Gracie Allen were married—Alan Safier keeps the legendary comedy duo alive. Made up
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –While a large part of American culture and bio-medicine is taken up with either living forever (or at least to 120 or more) or promoting youth culture at the expense of facing the realities of aging, author Daniel Klein has in mid-70s taken a few steps back in time to
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Travel and FoodBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– For years, for over 60 years at least and maybe for as long as 100 years, scholars and graduate students in English-speaking countries have been using a term — “scare quotes” — that has now become embedded in the print pages and online blogs of daily journalism as well. What’s
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, PhD LA JOLLA, California –Every Friday at 3:00, about a dozen dogs have a puppy party at White Sands La Jolla. They congregate with their owners and other dog-loving residents on a large lawn for puppy play time. The dogs vary from tiny and young to large and older and everyone gets
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As a native of San Francisco, I have always been a Giant fan since the time I first started collecting baseball cards as a young child. I remember watching the 1962 World Series when the Giants faced the dreaded New York Yankees, led by Roger Maris and
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Travel and FoodBy Dan Brodsky SPRING VALLEY, California — Father’s House Church here was host Wednesday, Oct. 24, to an inspiring event featuring Keynote Speaker Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, a 32-year-old reserve IDF combat veteran. The sponsoring organization was Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Anthony, who arrived in Israel in 2004, was a heavy machinegun operator who served
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By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Members of the Russian Pussy Riot punk band were recently convicted for “hooliganism” after performing a song protesting against the Russian Orthodox Church and the government of President Vladimir Putin. The subsequent trial was widely seen in the West as a violation of human rights and free speech. Two of the
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