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Reacting to the prayers in the siddur

Shma Koleinu: A Jewish People’s Commentary on the Siddur by Rabbi Steven Schwarzman, editor, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, an Amazon Company, Seattle, WA;  ISBN 978-1-50535-392-1 ©2014, $17.99, p. 202, plus contributor’s list By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Jews communicate with God through animal sacrifice, or at least they did when the Temple stood in […]

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

U.S. admonishes Israel over rhetoric

By Donald H. Harrison The White House and the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, March 18, both voiced their displeasure with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party’s  call to Jewish Israelis on Israel’s election day, March 17, to counter that country’s Arab vote, and additionally with Netanyahu’s pre-election announcement that he no longer supported creation of an

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Humoring the headlines: March 18, 2015

“Israeli Election Roundup” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It’s March Madness time in Israel.  Pundits are crunching numbers and filling out brackets, trying to figure out what the composition of the next Israeli coalition government will be. * Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Likud had a “great victory.”  This bolsters his claim that he speaks for

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Exit polls: Netanyahu slightly outpolls Herzog

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Israeli television exit polls on Tuesday night showed that while the country’s national election remains too close to call, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defied the projections of pre-election polling and would likely extend his current six-year run as prime minister. An exit poll by Channel 2 said that Likud won

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East

UCSD offers public access to Shoah archive

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli Arabs, Palestinians diverge in views

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An opinion poll published in Friday’s Yedioth Aharonoth  provides an insight into the Arab population of Israel. Along with surveys of Palestinians, it should be viewed with a bit more salt than is usually taken with survey research. Arabs are less inclined than us blabbermouth Jews and other westerners to reveal their attitudes

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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East