By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’ve come to the end of the period for registering parties and listing their candidates. It was a hectic final day. Two clusters formed, one to the right and one in the center. Prime Minister Netannyahu postponed a visit with Vladimir Putin so he could pressure what remained of Jewish […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The Associated Press was credited with three stories involving Jews in Sunday’s San Diego Union Tribune. In one, Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had an impromptu debate with students who demanded that she support the Green New Deal, which she responded would never receive enough votes
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — On April 9, the citizens of Israel will return to the polls nearly four years after the previous election. Voting for the 22th Knesset in Israel’s short, 71-year history, Israelis hope that the new government will last the full four year term, which the current one, unlike most
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Dow Mamur JERUSALEM — The bad news of recent days has been Prime Minister Netanyahu brokering the union of ultra-right-wing parties in the hope of securing a majority for his bloc at the April 9 elections. The price is to give extremists seats around the next cabinet table. The most surprising, and the
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin accompanied by fellow Democratic Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Juan Vargas and Scott Peters visited the San Diego-Tijuana border, with Levin telling the San Diego Union-Tribune, “I see no crisis other than the crisis the president is manufacturing.” Meanwhile The New York Times reported that U.S.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — To take a firm stand against institutionalized anti-Semitism, nine members of Britain’s Parliament tested the waters to leave their political comfort zone this past week by resigning as members of the Labour Party. Perhaps this move will be exported across the pond if similar conflicts in the Democratic Party
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International, USA
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Her patience sorely tested, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned President Trump’s former campaign aide Roger Stone that he will get no more chances if he violates a court order to remain mum about his upcoming trial in which he is accused of lying to Congress regarding
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — I came across an item which caught my eye: “Einstein’s ‘God letter’ from 1954 goes on auction block” (USA Breaking News, December 2, 2018) that could yield $1.5 million. In it Einstein writes, “The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Ki Tisa, Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. When he saw that the Israelites had built a golden calf in his absence, out of anger, he throws the tablets down to the ground smashing them into many pieces. But
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Made by Raffi, story by Craig Pomranz, illustrations by Margaret Chamberlain, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, IsBN 9781847-805966. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Made by Raffi is a story by singer Craig Pomranz, with illustrations by Margaret Chamberlain, that should help children who feel different from others of their gender understand that they have
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Elena Ferrante’s novels about her childhood in a run-down Naples neighbourhood and her life subsequently focus to a great extent on her friendship with Lina, a.k.a. Lila, the girl who dominated her life as a child and to some extent as an adult, too. The character of Lina
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jews from South Africa have played an important role in the development and maintenance of the overall San Diego Jewish community, says Pamela Nathan, president of the South African Jewish American Community (SAJAC). Yet, she said, their story, which began in such Eastern European countries as Lithuania and
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA