SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Adopt a Family Foundation will host its annual fundraiser from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, April 18 at Green Acre, 10300 Campus Point Drive, San Diego. Music is the theme of the evening: Am Echad, Shir Echad – One People, One Song. The significance of the theme is to promote […]
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The 70-80 percent of eligible Israelis who vote selected one of 26 slips with party symbols, or a blank that could serve as a protest against all of the 26 others with or without writing on it. They placed one slip in an official envelope, and put that envelope in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Maryland.) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have joined with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey.) to introduce S. 756, the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015, legislation that would establish a Syria-specific standard of
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Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It’s not only the public and politicians gearing up for the political changes following Tuesday’s Election Day in Israel. The employees of Israel’s Knesset are also completing preparations as they bid farewell to those Knesset Members leaving and welcome new members to Israel’s parliament building. Director General of the
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Middle EastBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Faculty at the University of Southampton in England will be sponsoring a three-day conference in April, “International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism,” conceived of to “explore the relatedness of the suffering and injustice in Palestine to the foundation and protection of a state
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO — The next presentation of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will feature the music of the greatest composer of Jewish music in the Twentieth Century. Ernest Bloch gave us some of the most beloved orchestral music on Hebraic themes, but he also composed secular orchestral music of great depth and
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The community mikvah, providing waters for spiritual immersion for a variety of rituals, has decided to suspend its programs while its board reassesses communal needs and acceptance. With less activity in prospect during this transition, its executive director, Rabbi Lenore Bohm, will step down March 31 to pursue other opportunities. Following
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Israeli television exit polls on Tuesday night showed that while the country’s national election remains too close to call, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defied the projections of pre-election polling and would likely extend his current six-year run as prime minister. An exit poll by Channel 2 said that Likud won
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle EastThe JGuy’s Guide: The GPS for Jewish Teen Guys by Rabbi J. B. Meszler, Dr. S. Reinharz, L. Suneby, and D. Heiman, Jewish Lights Publishing; ISBN 978-1-45967-434-9 ©2013, $18.99, p. 177, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –A much narrower distinction existed between childhood and adulthood in the nineteenth century then it does
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a groundbreaking approach to determine sleep quality using their new breath sound analysis (BSA). This is less expensive and invasive than current polysomnography (PSG) technology, according to a new study published on PLOS Online. “One of the main goals of sleep medicine today
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Peter Kubicek is an email friend of mine who I have known for about ten years now. He lives in New York and I live in Taiwan but we meet often online to chat about current events and Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. Kubicek is a Holocaust survivor,
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By Joshua Halickman KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel — Walking up to the Kiryat Shemona Municipal Stadium, I could see the beautiful snow-capped Hermon Mountain in the background of this picturesque facility planted right in the middle of a suburban neighborhood far away from the hustle and bustle of Tel Aviv. This is where the 2014 Israel State Cup
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — I am a fiduciary and I am ready to serve retirement investors. The Secretary of Labor has been tasked with updating regulations to require fiduciary standards for those who provide advice or investments to retirement plans or those saving for retirement. The fiduciary standard – putting the clients’ interests first
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Sheryl RowlingBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The New York Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail, together with no doubt countless other publications around the world, seem to be surprised at the announcement by Prime Minister Netanyahu that he doesn’t favour a Palestinian state. It didn’t come as a surprise to most Israelis. Yes, he
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