By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Cellist Maya Beiser was the star of the show in the La Jolla Symphony’s impressive concert February 7 at Mandeville Auditorium. The gifted Israeli instrumentalist, dressed in a short black dress with long sleeves and high black boots, her wavy black tresses framing her beautiful face, did not look
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – British journalist Melanie Phillips said the reaction of Jews in Europe to radical Muslims killing Jews in Paris and in Copenhagen is split into two major camps: there are those who are fearful and are considering moving to Israel or to other parts or the world, and those
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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Real estate expert Alan Nevin will address the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner meeting on Wednesday, March 18, on the outlook for San Diego County’s and the nation’s real estate market and the economy. The club meets on the Beth Israel campus, 9001 Towne Centre
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO–If you want to know why this license plate caught the eye of our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, you have to think with a Yiddish accent. This car is a ‘kvick one.’ In other words, as Rubin interpreted it, that auto goes fast!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis joined San Diego County law enforcement leaders on Thursday, Feb. 19, to announce the results of a detailed 20-year study of officer-involved shootings in San Diego County dating from 1993 through 2012. An officer-involved shooting is when a peace officer shoots someone in
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Congressional Republicans refuse to renew funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless President Obama rescinds his Executive Action allowing millions of undocumented aliens to remain in the United States. In other words to protect our American borders from illegal immigrants, the United States will stop protecting itself from terrorists.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Michael Mantell, Ph.D TECATE, Mexico — It’s been said, “No man needs a vacation as much as the one who just had one.” Not in my case. I’m away right now, as an invited speaker on how to extend longevity, at the world famous, top-rated, destination fitness and integrative wellness spa, Rancho La Puerta, where a
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Michael Mantell, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The term “quisling” refers to anyone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. The word originates from the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during WWII. That era also produced appeasers, such as as former British Prime Minister Arthur Neville
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USABy Morton A Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — We are at that periodic occurrence, a crisis in Israeli/U.S. relations. This one revolves around White House pique over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation by House Speaker, John Boehner, to address the U.S. Congress on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, an issue
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Before modern washing machines and driers were invented, washing laundry was a time-consuming activity; all the clothes had to be scrubbed by hand and then hung on the clothes line outside to dry. One day, a woman put out a temporary clothes line in the front of a
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Jewish ReligionOSLO, Norway (WJC) — The city of Oslo decided to permanently close to traffic the street leading to its main synagogue. Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo, told JTA that the decision was made following the slaying on Feb. 15 of a guard at the main synagogue of Copenhagen in Denmark. The
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Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–MK Tzipi Livni, Co-Chair of the Zionist Camp party addressed the Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations annual Leadership Mission to Israel on Thursday, Feb. 19. In light of the upcoming elections in Israel, MK Livni discussed the platform of her Zionist Camp party, which she co-chairs with Yitzhak Herzog. She said that
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Supreme Court reverses election ban on Arab Knesset member Zoabi (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) and far-right activist Baruch Marzel (Yahad Haam Itanu) from next month’s Knesset election. In an 8-1 decision, the court said
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