By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Should we be whimsical or cynical? Let’s see if we can answer that question before proceeding with our day. Tuesday’s news featured a new poll showing that two-thirds of Palestinians support the current violence, and think it’ll improve their chances to achieve national goals. And Mahmoud Abbas, the sitting President
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSwiss banks publish list of bank accounts that have been dormant for 60 years GENEVA (WJC) — Swiss banks on Wednesday published the names of more than 2,600 people whose bank accounts in Switzerland have lain dormant for more than 60 years, giving them or their heirs one last chance to claim their wealth before it reverts
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Most people want to fit in, to belong, to be part of a group, to be “one of the gang,” to share not only in the work but in the play, in the joking, the beer after a long day, the weekend golf or tennis games, the
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food, USABDS supporter refuses to have his Hillary Clinton book translated into Hebrew (JNS.org) An Israeli publisher seeking to purchase the rights to a book about Hillary Clinton’s presidential race was denied due to the author’s support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Israel Hayom reported. The New York-based publishing house Or Books had
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A cartoon in Wednesday’s Ha’aretz shows President Reuven Rivlin and his wife at JFK International Airport waiting for a flight back home. He says to her: “Perhaps we should stay here a little longer.” It’s a comment on the wave of hatred with which the president has been greeted
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Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — We have two weeks before the end of the year. Is there anything you can do now to lower your 2015 tax bill? The answer is YES! Here are five tips: Make charitable contributions. There are several ways to give: donating household items or cars, giving money or transferring appreciated
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By Beth Sarafraz BROOKLYN, New York — Meet Albert Mammon. You may already be familiar with his name because some of his good deeds were reported on TV, in newspapers, and on social media – where the stories went viral and comments under them numbered in the stratosphere. The fact that Mammon is unique —
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Jewish Religion, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN FRANCISCO — When I visit science museums, I have come to expect to see interesting optical illusions such as a picture that looks like Marilyn Monroe when viewed from one vantage point, but becomes Albert Einstein when seen from another perspective. I enjoy watching educational games such as the one my
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Foodhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Shurin
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Travel and Food
By Toni Robin SAN DIEGO — The new skating rink is not the only new ice at Liberty Station. The NTC Foundation recently unveiled its very first art commission, just in time for the holidays. Entitled ICE, the light sculpture is on display in the fountain in front of the Dick Laub NTC Command Center. Created
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San Diego Calendar, The World We Share, Travel and FoodU.S. outraged over planned statue honoring anti-Semite in Hungary (JNS.org) Ira Forman, the official U.S. government envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, on Sunday expressed outrage over plans in Hungary to erect a statue of Balint Homan, a Holocaust-era anti-Semitic historian and politician. “From the U.S. government perspective we feel very strongly that history and
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I don’t know how many upticks in violence have occurred during the 40 years I’ve lived in Jerusalem. My first experience came a couple of days after my arrival. Friday was a day off from Hebrew lessons, and I went downtown for some shopping. It was years before the era
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCaptured incitement dolls to be sent to Israeli missions (JNS.org) A recently confiscated shipment of about 4,000 dolls with mock rocks in their hands will be used to highlight Palestinian incitement against Israel, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely announced Monday. The Palestinian Authority-bound dolls were seized at the Haifa Port following an inspection of several
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On May 29, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski with these words “As a young officer in the Polish Underground, Jan Karski was among the first to relay accounts of the Holocaust to the
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International, Jewish History, USA