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Two Israeli musicians perform March 10 at Beth El

March 4, 2019

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, July Galper is the local empresario bringing two outstanding young Israeli musicians to perform in San Diego, Tal First, violin and Ilya Laskin, piano. Their program will take place in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla on Sunday evening, March 10, 7:00 p.m. […]

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How high school students can start college early

March 4, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – There’s a secret that I feel it’s my duty to divulge to other grandparents and parents of high school students. High school sophomores can get a jump on their college educations—maybe even save their parents a bundle of money —by applying to Grossmont Middle College High School

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori

Psalm 147

March 4, 2019

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Travel and Food

Jewish trivia quiz: Trump and Netanyahu

March 4, 2019

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received much negative press in the last few weeks. First, he made a deal with the Otzma Yehudit party, the successor to Rabbi Meir Kahane’s racist Kach party, leading to criticism from many in Israel, as well as American organizations including

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Noshing with Sandi ~ Sushi Ota

March 4, 2019

Sushi Ota, 4529 Mission Bay Dr, San Diego, California By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — If you didn’t know better, you would easily drive past San Diego’s best Sushi spot and never know it. Unlike the bigger, louder restaurants of the area with the neon signs proclaiming the cuisine, Sushi Ota is quietly tucked between

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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food

Anne Frank’s step- sister speaking in Poway

March 3, 2019

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Travel and Food

Netanyahu fights indictments, opponents

March 3, 2019

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We now have the indictments, subject to hearings, on three cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On one, involving gifts amounting to nearly a half million shekels, the indictment will be for breach of trust. On another, involving discussions with the publisher of Yedioth Aharonoth, the indictment is fraud and

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Peace through the eye of the needle

March 3, 2019

Two Neighbors’ colleagues Judy and Adeem examine some embroidery By Yonatan Peres TEL AVIV, Israel — Back in the seventies, in my IDF military service, I was training in the South Hebron Mountain region. The area was scattered with Palestinian terrorists. Bombs, shootings ambushes and patrols were almost our daily routine. Some changes have occurred

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Middle East, USA, Yoni Peres

Cordoba Sephardic Music Festival

March 3, 2019

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Travel and Food

‘Just kidding’: Trump comforts Bibi over his tsuris

March 3, 2019

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump has offered Benjamin Netanyahu moral support as the Israeli prime minister faces charges of corruption. In a letter obtained from knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified, the president empathizes with the man he addresses as ‘Bibi” and offers some suggestions for fighting the accusations

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Joel H. Cohen, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Rashida Tlaib’s hypocrisy toward racism

March 3, 2019

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA –U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s jabbing accusation during the Cohen hearing must give us pause: “I’m saying that in itself it is a racist act.” So should U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s statement of Dec. 23, 2016: “Earlier this fall I joined Senate colleagues urging the Administration to uphold its position opposing

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Middle East, USA

Does the Torah mention life after death?

March 3, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida –The Bible says nothing about life after death. It does not mention heaven or garden of Eden as a future abode of reward and Hell as a place of punishment after death. Maimonides states in his work Chelek that heaven is not an area where the good

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Havdalah ~ Zalman Pollack

March 2, 2019

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Travel and Food

Waiting for another ‘On the Beach’

March 2, 2019

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I sometimes call myself a Jewish-American climate activist of the literary kind based in Taiwan, but I am not a novelist or a literary critic. Instead, as a 70-something expat in Asia working the runway climate change beat as a reporter and a blogger, I focus on trying

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The World We Share, Travel and Food

Two Israeli musicians perform March 10 at Beth El

How high school students can start college early

Psalm 147

Jewish trivia quiz: Trump and Netanyahu

Noshing with Sandi ~ Sushi Ota

Anne Frank’s step- sister speaking in Poway

Netanyahu fights indictments, opponents

Peace through the eye of the needle

Cordoba Sephardic Music Festival

‘Just kidding’: Trump comforts Bibi over his tsuris

Rashida Tlaib’s hypocrisy toward racism

Does the Torah mention life after death?

Havdalah ~ Zalman Pollack

Waiting for another ‘On the Beach’

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