The Jewish singers: Frankie Cosmos
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Travel and Food14 Muscles You Don’t Exercise Enough
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — There is healing power in the medicine of laughter and play. Living with stress, feeling uptight, being worried, not sleeping, and thinking limiting thoughts, kill the joy in your life—as well as your health and wellbeing. One of the best anti-stress medicines we have is free, has
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationPope, Washington Times popularize climate issues
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — With Pope Francis delivering his well-received global appeal for fighting climate change before it is too late, titled Laudato Si (Praise Be), the usually-conservative newspaper The Washington Times recently published a very positive story about the rise of ”cli-fi” wake-up call movies in Hollywood. It was a fair
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International, USAWhen political views go over the edge
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics is the essence of civilization. It’s the way to solve issues via dispute, voting, and compromise without bloodshed. It need not be dispassionate. Issues are important, and at times pressing. However, it is easy to exaggerate the tensions that erupt, seize headlines, excite threats of retribution, and then disappear
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABook tells how to ‘speak cat’
By Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — There are two camps in the world: dog lovers and cat lovers. However, there are many, who like me, love and appreciate both. The popularity of cats has grown and today more households have cats, and they have questions about their cats. Cats can be such mysterious creatures!
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareFilmmaker says Marilyn Monroe was murdered
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Every good conspiracy requires specific elements to make it compelling and spellbinding: A beautiful woman, men of power, and a secret so valuable, if leaked, heads would roll. Marilyn Monroe Declassified meets each of the aforementioned requirements and goes beyond the intrigue by measuring up to the burden
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Eva Trieger, USASidebars to the Charleston tragedy
Editor’s Note: Lawrence “Laurie” Baron usually writes the “Humoring the Headlines” column, but in the wake of the racist murders in Charleston, South Carolina, he preferred to address this far more serious topic. By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ I find little to humor about this week’s main headline, the murder of 9 African-Americans at a bible study
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Lawrence Baron, USAA Jewish childhood in 1920’s Paris
By Natasha Josefowitz, PhD LA JOLLA, California — The Paris of the 1920s had cobblestone streets and horse-drawn carriages delivering milk in glass bottles with the cream on top—reserved for my father for his café au lait. Coal was thrown down a chute at the base of our apartment building, and blocks of ice were hauled
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International, Natasha JosefowitzChurch killer spawned by a racist society
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –That scary-eyed, sick young man in Charleston who sat among God-fearing people in church for an hour and then began to murder them says he wanted to start a racial war. Really? That war is well under way and even that factoid hasn’t crossed your little Nazi brain. All
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USAProkofiev Symphony marks TICO violinist’s farewell
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra tackled two very ambitious selections for their June 7 and 9 program, Prokofiev’s Symphony #5 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto #1. Before the program began, the orchestra member who had been with TICO the longest, Jeanne Shenkman, was honored. She came forth from her position
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Travel and FoodJewish news briefs: June 19, 2015
Netanyahu slams U.N. ‘hypocrisy’ after Ban Ki-moon criticizes Gaza operation (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “dark day” for the United Nations following U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s criticism of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against the Hamas terrorist group. During a U.N. Security Council meeting on Thursday relating to
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International, Middle East, USAIsrael must protect churches, mosques from thugs
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One of the bitter ironies of contemporary Israel is that some of the Jews who claim to be the most ardent defenders of the Jewish faith, the Jewish people and the Jewish way of life – the ultra-Orthodox – behave like the non-Jewish thugs who still try to make life
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Middle EastCourt- martials might be appealed to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The words on the United States Supreme Court building read “Equal Justice Under Law.” Yet some service members are denied access to the nation’s highest court. To correct this inequity in the military justice system, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) introduced legislation to grant these service members access to the Supreme
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USAThe most hateful word you know
By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Sure, you may be thinking that word might be “hate,” “poverty,” “illness,” or “death.” No, these words are mild compared to the life-sucking, contentment-robbing, depression-boosting, anxiety-causing and anger-building word I’m thinking of. That word is “should.” In the wonderful words of my mentor and teacher, Albert Ellis, Ph.D.,
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