By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama struck just the right notes after the North Korean artillery barrage that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians yesterday. He was outraged, as we all should be, but didn’t take the North Korean bait. U.S. Forces Korea – not the White House – made the […]
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release)– Ferrography, a practice used by the American and Israeli air forces to monitor the condition of machinery, extracts tiny iron particles from lubricants such as oil and grease to analyze wear in machines. Determining whether a system requires preventative maintenance can be the key to preventing catastrophic failure. Now Tel Aviv
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will have the opportunity of a lifetime to work with a world-renowned artist when Mordechai Rosenstein visits the school in December. At SDJA, he will engage students in the creation of a unique piece of art that will incorporate the school’s current annual theme
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SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, ever vigilant for Jewish license plates, recently hit a trifecta: “Da Chozn” could be a New Yorker or New Jerseyite’s way of saying he or she is part of the chosen people — Jewish, that is. Try4613 is a way of encouraging California freeway drivers to attempt to fulfill God’s commandments
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–The reinvented National Museum of American Jewish History features this inspired advantage: A visitor can readily find it, and swiftly reach it. The museum, which traces the Jewish experience in the United States, is located at the same corner as Philadelphia’s Fifth Street SEPTA subway station and a stop for numerous
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) — El Al Airlines will be providing potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiyot) to its passengers flying over the Chanukah holiday. It also has provided the recipes for those who want to make the holiday treats at home. The recipes are from Executive Chef Steven Weintraub of Borenstein Caterers (a subsidiary
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–Jewish community leaders from across Latin America participated in a series of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) workshops where they exchanged strategies on responding to key issues confronting Jews in the region. Community leaders and professional staff from 11 Latin American countries (with representation from Spain and Puerto Rico) gathered November 15-17 at the
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — It’s always good to start off the week with a bang, not a fizzle. That’s why one of my favorite places to spend the hours after Shabbat and before work starts on Sunday is with the lively folks at Yung Yiddish–Jerusalem’s Yiddish cabaret. Almost every Saturday night in the
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By Gert Thaler LA JOLLA, California –San Diego’s Sigrid Fischer is celebrating her 90th birthday and if you think, perchance, that this does not take some doing, for anyone, you are sadly mistaken. The joke goes that the people who read the obituary listings just want to be sure that their name and photo don’t appear
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By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California–“Anne Sexton saved my life,” Salome Jens says. The actress, still beautiful in her 70s, sits munching her salad in a trendy outdoor cafe. Her words are startling as they float in the bright California sunshine. “At 46,” she continues, “I was suicidal and alcoholic. Just like Anne. But I
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Cynthia Citron, Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The vast majority of the 56 participating governments in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are failing to adequately address the problem of hate crime and anti-Semitic incidents, according to a new analysis by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Human Rights First. ADL and Human Rights First analyzed data
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC)–Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary-general of Iran’s Human Rights Council, has defended the practice of stoning people. Larijani said in New York that the sentence had not been carried out applied for years because of a moratorium, but added that it served as an important deterrent. “More than 50 percent [of people] may
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Travel and FoodKAMPALA, Uganda (Press Release)–Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is running for National Parliament in Uganda. If elected to parliament Rabbi Sizomu would not only be the first Jew elected to national office in Uganda, but also the first rabbi to be seated in nationally elected government outside of Israel. Candidate Sizomu sees his political mission as
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Travel and FoodVIENNA (WJC)–The parliament of Austria has passed a bill to provide US$ 27 million in federal funds for restoring Jewish cemeteries over the next 20 years. The move ends years of disagreement over who should pay for much-needed preservation efforts for the burial places of a once vibrant Jewish community which was decimated during the
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