By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — On Sunday, September 13th, at sundown the High Holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins. This is my prayer for the coming Hebrew New Year: 5776 I pray for peace. Let it begin with me – and you – and then spread in concentric circles to include every living soul. Peace
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel seems to know how to keep out people it deems to be unwelcome intruders. But it’s helpless in protecting itself against the weather. The extreme heat that’s still with us and the accompanying sandstorm that’s now mercifully on the way out have taken center stage even in the
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Middle EastBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Jewish novelist Nat Rich’s last foray into pop culture fiction was the publication in 2013 of a comic cli-fi novel titled Odds Against Tomorrow. It got reviewed with two thumbs up seemingly everywhere, with multiple reviews at NPR and the New York Times. It came out in hardback
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The World We ShareBy Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — Although I am very proud to be Jewish, I consider myself more of a spiritual person rather than a religious one. I was born in Chicago and when my family lived there, my parents belonged to a temple, and were fairly active in the Jewish community. That all
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International, Middle East, Mimi Pollack, USAC. Lanzbom with the banded hat is on the left
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Travel and FoodBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — On 9/11 we recalled the horrors of that day when mass terror struck America. In less than a week, the US Congress will vote on the important Iran nuclear deal. A few days ago, I recalled another significant date – September 7. Not many people remembered what happened on that date.
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Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — On the day that Barack Obama gained enough votes supporting his deal with Iran to keep it from even coming to a vote in the Senate, the Supreme Leader of his partner nation, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, proclaimed that Iran would see to it that Israel will not survive the 25
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Tamara Azizov, formerly an accounts payable clerk at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (“JCC”) in La Jolla, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 11, by U.S. District Chief Judge Barry T. Moskowitz to 12 months and one day in jail for embezzling over $150,000 from the JCC, and concealing this income
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By Michelle Hose SAN DIEGO — What are the colors of Israel? Someone who has never visited the land of Israel might say the blue and white of the Israeli flag. Any Israeli knows the colors of Israel are infinite. There are the blues, greens and sea foam of the Mediterranean Sea, or the deep
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Travel and FoodBy Stephen M. Greenberg and Malcolm Hoenlein NEW YORK — For more than a decade, the Conference of Presidents has been addressing the dangers posed by the extremist Islamist regime in Iran. We have been at the forefront sounding alarms about Iran’s drive for regional hegemony, support for terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, gross
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The Debt of Tamar by Nicole Dweck; St. Martin’s Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-250-06508-1, 291 pages; $25.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There is a kabalistic concept that everything in the universe must be balanced; that what occurs in this world also affects what happens in the after world; and that the cosmic insistence
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Somebody wrote me a nasty letter recently after something I wrote about Jews and social justice. “You just wrote that because you’re a Jew,” spouted my critic. To this branding, I say, thank you! Thank you! Thank you for attributing to me the greatest possible ethnic compliment. Call me
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAEU parliament backs labels for products made beyond Israel’s pre-1967 lines (BreakingIsraelNews.com/JNS.org) On Thursday, the European Union’s parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution to differentiate labels on products made in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights from those made in the rest of Israel. The labels were backed by 525 European
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International, Middle East, USAMorgan Lander is lead vocalist of Kitty. Her sister Mercedes is the drummer.
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