By Barry Shaw JERUSALEM – The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs staged a highly successful event at the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem between 12-14 May. Delegates from around the world gathered to hear an impressive array of speakers, led by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The conference was intense. Even the lunches […]
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Barry Shaw, Middle East“Whosoever saves a single life saves an entire universe —Mishna, Sanhedrin 4:5 By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — When Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz extermination camp on January 27, 1945, they found 7,000 survivors from the more than one million who had passed under its gates. Auschwitz has become a symbol for the Holocaust
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — At the end of parashat B’har we find the following words: “You shall not make idols for yourselves, or set up for yourselves carved images or pillars, or place figured stones in your land to worship upon, for I the LORD am your God. You shall keep My
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Jewish ReligionPalestinian driver admits to car-ramming attack in Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) A 22-year-old Palestinian man confessed to intentionally driving into a bus stop outside the Jewish community of Alon Shvut in Judea and Samaria on Thursday. The Shin Bet security agency said that Muhammed Arfaaya of Hebron, who injured four Israelis ages 16-25 in the
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’m among those who had a sleepless night between Thursday and Friday because of Binyamin Netanyahu, the old/new Prime Minister of Israel. He was due to present his new government to the Knesset at 7p.m. local time. However, the event was postponed for a couple of hours because he was
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California), Ranking Member of the Personnel Subcommittee, released the following statement on the policy changes proposed by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. In a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy on May 13, 2015, Secretary Mabus announced his intention to increase maternity leave from 6 to 12 weeks, expand
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By David Ogul SAN DIEGO – Tifereth Israel Synagogue’s Silverman Preschool in the San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos on Thursday, May 14, officially dedicated the Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg Infant Care Center, an addition that enables the rapidly expanding preschool to accommodate newborns and infants of working parents. Enrollment at Silverman Preschool has nearly
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David Ogul, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationFour Israelis wounded in Gush Etzion in latest car-ramming attack (JNS.org) Four Israelis ages 16-25 were injured Thursday when a car drove into a bus stop outside the Jewish community of Alon Shvut in Judea and Samaria. A Palestinian suspect from Hebron was arrested in connection with the attack, according to reports. Israel Radio reported
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International, Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m. the San Diego community will gather for a special presentation of Waiting for Mamu, a documentary about a now destroyed orphanage in Nepal. The event comes just weeks after a terrible series of earthquakes rocked Nepal, killing thousands, and leaving tens of thousands homeless. One
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International, San Diego CalendarPalestinian Fatah official to be jailed over incitement on Facebook (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court set a legal precedent on Tuesday by ruling that inflammatory statements expressed on Facebook constitute grounds for a criminal conviction. Omar Shalabi, 44, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Fatah party’s Jerusalem branch and a resident of the
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International, Middle East, USAThe Lost Catacomb by Shifra Hochberg, Enigma Press, USA, 2014 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Machinations, mischief and skullduggery in the Vatican, both in modern times and in the past, constitute the main theme of this interesting first novel by Shifra Hochberg. It’s my understanding that the leaders of the Catholic church were somehow involved in helping
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