By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Barack Obama isn’t looking as good as he did when he had the interviewers all to himself in the first few days after negotiators left Lausanne with smiles and handshakes, but nothing more than oral reports about what had been agreed to date. Commentators have poked around the details and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — With the fifth season of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones starting this week, the Reuters News Service in London published a story the other day asking in the headline: ”Is ‘Game of Thrones’ aiding the global debate on climate change?” The reporter on the story was Kyle
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The World We ShareBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I have been thinking about romantic love, about how wonderful it is to love and be loved in return. In fact, there is nothing more exhilarating than to find that person with whom one can be totally oneself and be accepted and loved, in other words, unconditional
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Natasha JosefowitzSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned the anti-Semitic vandalism that targeted a Jewish home in the residential neighborhood of Mira Mesa on Sunday April, 5, 2015. ADL and Jewish Federation of San Diego County are offering a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
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San Diego CountyBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –As far back as I remember, I always wanted to help people. I was interested in the problems people were dealing with and tried to understand and make a difference. I also wrote poetry as a child, and my first poem was published in a French children’s magazine
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Travel and FoodOur thanks to Peter Kubicek, who sent this video to us, commenting it was much like the towns he remembered from his boyhood before the Holocaust.
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International, Jewish History, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — On Rosh Chodesh (the new month) and on each of the Shalosh Regalim (pilgrimage festivals): Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot, we add a special section to the morning service called “Hallel.” “Hallel” means praise. Hallel consists of several Psalms (religious poems) which reflect the celebrations which took place in
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Jewish ReligionBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The pair of concerts which TICO played on March 22 and 26 were devoted entirely to the music of Ernest Bloch, the most famous composer of the 20th century to have used Jewish thematic material as his inspiration. Bloch’s “Schelomo” for cello; the three movement “Baal Shem Suite” for violin;
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Responding to a petition submitted to the “We the People” website, President Obama called for banning coercive conversion therapy for minors from the LGBT community. Although GOP presidential hopeful (or some may say hopeless) Ben Carson asserted that the resort to conversion therapy should be a matter decided by a
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireEditor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World is fortunate to have among its contributors the authors of many books. To acquaint you with them, and their literary output, we will from time to time offer articles by the authors telling of their works. This article is by Donald H. Harrison, who is the editor of this publication.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (WJC)– Over 80 percent of Israelis think the Holocaust will one day fade from memory, although it still resonates and influences daily life in the Jewish state, a poll conducted by The Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors found. The poll, for which five hundred Jewish- Israeli adults were canvassed, was conducted ahead of Israel’s
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Jewish History, Middle EastIDF praises soldier’s ‘composure’ during Samaria stabbing attack (JNS.org) Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Staff Sgt. Tomer Lan, who was stabbed in the back by a Palestinian terrorist on Wednesday in Samaria, “prevented a larger terrorist attack” when he “acted with composure and as required by a combat soldier,” the IDF said. Lan was able to
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It seems like a head to head competition, verbal and political combat, with one of the participants vastly outweighing the other in the resources that usually determine such outcomes. Nobody in the world has been more powerful than the President of the United States since the end of World War
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