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Humoring the headlines: May 11, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It was announced that Covenant Journey will provide subsidized trips to Israel for Christian college students.  It will be just like the Operation Birthright tours except no drinking, sexual relations, and kvetching. * Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government of 61 Knesset Members out of 120.  Although many observers doubt whether such […]

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Iran’s ‘red lines’ make mockery of N- Agreement

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–The Senate has passed the Corker-Cardin bill to ensure Congressional oversight of any deal the president concludes with Iran. The vote was 98-1 for language that permits the agreement to become operative unless Congress votes against it. Sen. Tom Cotton was the lone holdout, believing the Senate should have to vote

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Coalition may keep Netanyahu on ‘right’ track

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Britain has just reelected a Conservative government, avoiding a “hung parliament,” a situation in which no single party wins an absolute majority of the votes. That, despite the fact that British polls had steadfastly predicted that neither the Conservative or Labor parties would win a majority. Israel, which

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Tourists get an inflated welcome to San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego International Airport wanted to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week with some excitement and enthusiasm, but, goodness, not with a bang! That’s why costumed characters such as Matilda the Koala from San Diego Zoo and Max from Legoland gently coaxed children who were among arriving

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

I-8 Jewish travel: Valley View Casino Center

Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.”  Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

U.S. excuses its civilian casualties, but not Israel’s

U.S.-Led Forces Killed Syrian Civilians, Rights Groups Say: Airstrikes on village controlled by Islamic State kills more than 60 civilians, say two human-rights groups (Wall Street Journal 5/1/15) Obama Apologizes After Drone Kills American and Italian Held by Al Qaeda (New York Times 4/23/15) By Shoshana Bryen   WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is not a

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

In Israel, admiration, sympathy for Armenians

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–Whether by coincidence or design (probably the latter), Jerusalem’s YMCA building is currently showing an exhibition of exquisite Armenian ceramic work produced by one of the many workshops situated in the Old City. No mention is made of the slaughter of over a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire exactly one hundred

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Rabbi helps decipher biblical prophecies

Prophecies and Providence: A Biblical Approach to Modern Jewish History by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer, Devorah Publishing, New York; ISBN 978-1-93444-059-9 ©2015, $24.95, p. 218, plus appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Apocalyptic literature tells of the events that will occur at the end-of-days, such as Armageddon and the struggle between Gog and Magog.  For fundamentalist Christians those

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion