By Julie Schlosser SEATTLE, Washington — Like most Jewish people, each year at the High Holidays, I pause to look inward. It’s such a powerful window to stop, reflect and refocus. About six years ago, I remember sitting uncomfortably during Rosh Hashanah services. I was restless. I had a good job as a journalist at
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– As student loan debt is reaching record proportions, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) will host a forum on college affordability. The forum, to be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10 at Griffin Gate on the Grossmont College campus, will bring together experts on higher education and
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationSen. Schumer: U.S. to help compensate French rail’s Holocaust deportees WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org)– The U.S. State Department will accept applications for restitution from Holocaust victims (and their family members) who were transported to concentration camps by the French rail company Societé Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF), according to an announcement made last week
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International, Jewish HistoryKnesset approves minimum jail sentences for rock-throwing (JNS.org) In a vote of 51-17, the Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a bill designed to toughen penalties for rock-throwing. The bill, designed as a temporary provision in its current format, passed its second and third reading on Monday, finalizing it into law. Its temporary nature, however, will
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s visit to Moscow last month appears born of the confidence that no one would depose him in his absence. It completes Vladimir Putin’s cycle of Middle Eastern visitors: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plus Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a NATO partner; Deputy Crown Prince
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By Selwyn Isakow SAN DIEGO – Pride and unity were the themes of Shabbat San Diego that was held Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 22-24. There were such unforgettable sights and sounds as a Chabad rebbetzin teaching men, women and children to prepare challahs for baking while a Reform cantor provided entertainment. Amid this scene at
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The Kansas City Royals, those scrappy, come-from-behind non-imperials from the American epicenter of wheat and ice, ended it decisively in Game 6. Like a sudden gust from the plains, they brought it on at their own will, blowing the bemused New York Mets off their own field in a
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Sports & Competitions
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Downloading new software intimidates me, learning my new OS baffles me, and just about any gadget that vaporizes to the Cloud sends me running for cover. But as much as I try to maintain my Neanderthal status, technology won’t allow me to be a backward ostrich much longer. Thankfully,
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Eva Trieger, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — Having just returned from a few weeks in Eilat, I have to say that the town’s distance from the rest of Israel does tend to give a sense of security from the current terror wave. It is an appalling situation when a random person can just stab you in the
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Bill Clinton was the first president to hold a candle lighting ceremony for Chanukkah at the White House, in 1993. What did a 6-year-old girl do at the event? A. She wandered off in the White House, eventually coming upon Chelsea Clinton in her bedroom. Chelsea and the girl played games
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireProposed Israeli bill requires NGOs to disclose foreign funding sources (JNS.org) Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is sponsoring a new bill that would force nongovernmental organizations to disclose foreign funding sources if they make up more than half their budgets. Shaked said Sunday that the proposed bill “follows publications and data indicating that a
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — While there is seldom a let-up in calls from the State Department, White House, or the New York Times that Israel must do more to solve the problem of the Palestinians, there is much less noise about the mess just over the US border with Mexico. There is considerable argument
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At Temple Emanu-El’s annual artisans’ festival, I met a painter who is a member of one of San Diego’s longstanding and well-known Jewish families, and a woodworking craftsman who just recently moved here from Kona, Hawaii, where thanks to his Jewish wife he discovered the joy of
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