By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Two Israelis behind the Fansino app won first place at a prestigious smartphone app competition held in Barcelona last week. Haran Wolfovitz Yaffe and Omri Erez won the 2015 Mobile Premier Awards “Best App of the Year” at Spain’s Mobile World Congress, the largest cross-platform app showcase in the […]
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Middle East
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Press Release) — More than 1,100 prominent Israeli-American community supporters and philanthropists from across the country raised $23.4 million at the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’S Seventh Annual Gala March 8 in Los Angeles. The gala, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, marked the Israeli-American community’s achievements over the past year. The funds will go
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Middle East, USAPoll: 64% of Israeli Jews say election won’t swing peace process with Palestinians (JNS.org) Almost two-thirds of Israeli Jews (64 percent) believe that the peace process with the Palestinians will not advance no matter which political party forms Israel’s next government, according to the newly released monthly Peace Index poll by the Israel Democracy Institute
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The latest news for those dreaming of a Palestinian state is the refusal of the United List, a group of four largely Arab parties, to sign an agreement with Meretz to provide to one of them the excess votes left over to each after the parceling out via Israel’s system of Proportional
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — For some, the results are spectacular as they have been for Carey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T., the American Conservatory Theatre based in San Francisco. Perloff has won numerous awards and distinctions for her work and collaborated with the likes of playwright Tom Stoppard, BD Wong (of Law
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –They may not agree on much politically, especially about Israel and the Palestinians, but members of the Muslim Student Association and the Union of Jewish Students at UCSD are planning to regularly eat together in 2016 in a common dining hall that will offer both kosher and halal
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — You don’t have to be Marcel Proust to recognize the association between the aroma of a Jewish deli and memory. It still happens every time I enter DZ Akins. For me, the intermingling of the scents of fresh challah, chicken soup, chopped liver, corned beef, flanken, grilled onions, lox,
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former World War II Prisoner of War Sy Brenner in 2012 published a memoir called The Night I Got Killed, telling about the harrowing experiences he had keeping his Jewish identity secret from his Nazi captors and serving the camp as a medic. On Monday, March 9,
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ President Obama chided Americans for having the lowest voter participation rate among Western nations. Fox News cited this as another instance of how he doesn’t love America and pointed to the high audience voting rate for American Idol to disprove his charge. * Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIS prompting
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — City Ballet of San Diego’s “Balanchine Spectacular” on Sunday, March 8, presented three ballets representative of the choreographer’s iconic signatures: “Rubies” – glittering and sharp, “The Four Temperaments” with its haunting shapes and “Walpurgisnacht,” driven by splendid music. The program opened with “Rubies,” which is the second of three
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Travel and FoodBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Many rabbis, most notably Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, participated in the marches and other civil rights movement activities in the 1960’s. The wearing of a yarmulke was adopted by many black marchers, necessitating the special delivery of 1000 yarmulkes for the march from Selma to Montgomery 50
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireRepublican senators warn Iran that nuclear deal with Obama can be revoked (JNS.org) A group of 47 Republican U.S. senators wrote an open letter to Iran explaining that any deal signed by President Barack Obama is merely an executive agreement if it does not include Senate approval, and that such a deal can be revoked
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