Jewish news briefs: July 3, 2015

Netanyahu tours Be’er Sheva with Steve Forbes, hails city’s tech ‘revolution’ (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—joined by billionaire Steve Forbes, owner of the Forbes magazine—on Thursday toured Be’er Sheva and the southern Israeli city’s Advanced Technologies Park at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Netanyahu discussed the area’s potential in the field […]

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International, Middle East, USA

An ode to Annie

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — “Nobody could ever wear a hat like Annie,” said Carl about his beloved Anneliese.   She died twenty years ago, July 3, 1995—spared the digital terror and religious insanity of the 21st century. Annie survived the Holocaust, outwitting Satan’s agents and the silence of a complicit world.  Never mind:

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Travel and Food

Davis lauds overtime pay proposal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) applauded the President’s announcement that the Department of Labor will propose extending overtime pay protections to nearly 5 million salaried American workers, including more than 400,000 in California.  This proposal would increase the current overtime protection threshold, guaranteeing overtime pay to most salaried workers earning less

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Travel and Food

Stadium funding not a city priority — Emerald

Story by David Ogul; photos by Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO — This city does not have money for a new, publicly funded, $1.1-billion football stadium that backers hope will keep the Chargers from bolting to Los Angeles, City Councilmember Marti Emerald told several dozen people at a Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club dinner Wednesday night.

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David Ogul, Michael Mantell, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Israelis wonder what’s behind violence uptick

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israelis are accustomed to not knowing what’s happening. With the most thoroughgoing security arrangements in western democracies, there is a lot they don’t tell us. The military experience most have had provides its own lessons on the workings of a high compartmentalized organization, and realizing that there are things we do not

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Jewish news briefs: July 2, 2015

Israel’s Shin Bet uncovers extensive Hamas terror network in Nablus (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) More than 40 Palestinians suspected of being Hamas operatives seeking to establish terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria have been arrested over the past few months, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency revealed Wednesday. The suspects were tasked with creating a wide

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International, Middle East

I-8 Jewish Travel: The courthouse and the Franklins

  – Eleventh in a Series– Exit 3, Taylor Street, San Diego~Courthouse, Old Town San Diego State Historic Park By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There were no televisions, radios, motion pictures, or YouTube videos back in the mid 19th century.  There were, occasionally, traveling stage productions and these were well-attended.  But for day-to-day entertainment, San

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food

BDS gains church advocates

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — J Street and the Catholic Church proceeded on the same day, last Friday, to press for Israeli and Arab action to end the so-called occupation of Israel’s territories, and they were joined by a large Protestant denomination four days later. Ira Stup, a senior consultant to the J Street

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Middle East, USA