By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — A few thousand years ago a rag-tag band of shepherds cum runaway slaves were wandering around in a desert wasteland led by an enigmatic figure – Moses. No one is sure from whence he came, the origins of his name or where he went. The people told a story of […]
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Middle East, USABy Hank Sheinkopf and Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — As President Harry Truman said, “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” Recently, many have stood up and told the truth about New Israel Fund’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, their
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of the last political debates three days before Israel’s general elections on Tuesday, March 17th, took place at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue on Saturday night, March 14. Aimed at the English-speaking community of Jerusalem, the very last English-language debate was hosted by the Jerusalem Post and the Association
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International, Middle East, USASHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Press Release) — Meeting with reporters after his economic discussions with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 14, spoke about the “tough” and “intense” P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran that will resume on Sunday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are excerpts from Kerry’s meeting with the
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the
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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An opinion poll published in Friday’s Yedioth Aharonoth provides an insight into the Arab population of Israel. Along with surveys of Palestinians, it should be viewed with a bit more salt than is usually taken with survey research. Arabs are less inclined than us blabbermouth Jews and other westerners to reveal their attitudes
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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–We are social animals, and one of our most basic needs is to be with people who are like-minded or with whom we have common interests. Our survival in the jungle of millennia ago depended on it. Being part of a tribe—be it religious, political, familial, for fun, or
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Travel and FoodBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org SANTA CRUZ, California — Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) called for the expulsion of all Jewish students from their campus. The very next day, halfway around the world, the student government at University of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAEditor, San Diego Jewish World As we prepare for the annual Holocaust commemoration on April 19th, we are reaching out to ask for your help. We are searching for names of local Holocaust Survivors as well as those who have passed away in this last year. Although we work closely with the New Life Club,
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GENEVA (WJC) — Jacob Turner, a member of the Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), addressed a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the rights of children in armed conflict on behalf of the WJC, condemning the “cowardly use of children to gain military advantage and their tragic
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–What Binyamin Netanyahu sees as a threat many of us consider a promise. Friday’s front page of Yisrael Hayom – the daily freebee that his friend and massive supporter Sheldon Adelson, the American casino tycoon, created for his pal Bibi – quotes the latter saying, “If you don’t vote Likud –
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HELSINKI, Finland (WJC)–World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer paid a visit to Finland, Norway and Denmark to discuss the situation of the Jewish communities in Scandinavia in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, which came as a shock to Scandinavian Jews. Singer met with community leaders in Helsinki, Oslo and Copenhagen, as well
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InternationalBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Biblical leadership is hardly a democracy. God and God alone appoints most leaders. Even when the Israelites demanded a King, God had to endorse their choice. According to the midrash, there is one important exception to the rule: someone appointed as a parnas, or communal leader. Rabbi Isaac said:
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