By Sheryl Rowling LA JOLLA, California — A prior year’s audience favorite, Gloomy Sunday was scheduled only one time at the 2015 San Diego Jewish Film Festival. If you missed the film this time (coincidentally on shown on Sunday morning, Feb. 9), you will have to resort to Netflix. This was the third time I’ve had the
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Travel and FoodBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, a Grammy nominee for this year’s Best New Artist, has what Jewish connection? A. Israeli horticulturists at the University of Haifa have developed a breed of azalea which is resistant to petal blight, a common plant disease. They have named this new breed the
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireIDF destroys remnants of Hamas terror tunnel near southern border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces has destroyed the remnants of a large terror tunnel stretching between the Gaza Strip and Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said Monday. The tunnel was first discovered during Operation Protective Edge last summer, and
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International, Middle East, USAISTANBUL (WJC) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said his government would not succumb to “the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority”, a sentence he said in regards to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words two weeks ago that members of the Gülen movement had joined forces with the Mossad.
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Travel and FoodMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)–Uruguay’s government has confirmed reports that Iranian diplomat Ahmed Sabatgold, 32, had left the country after being suspected by Uruguayan security forces of collecting intelligence about a building housing Israel’s new embassy in Montevideo since December, and helping to plant a bomb nearby. Sabatgold served as a political adviser in the Iranian Embassy
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International, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — And so once again, only two years after the previous election, Israel’s long-suffering population has been thrown into the maelstrom of another election campaign. Though perhaps “maelstrom” is too strong a term to describe the boredom and drudgery of being exposed to another round of groupings and regroupings
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
SAN DIEGO–Now here is a license plate rife with possible interpretations. Eran is a Hebrew name, which comes from the word meaning “awake.” So one possible interpretation of this license plate spotted by our maven, Melanie Rubin, is that someone named Eran “ate” — and we’re glad he did because we wouldn’t want him
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireCompiled by Donald H. Harrison U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) were among a group of congressional Democrats who joined representatives of the Newtown Action Alliance at a Capitol Hill news conference Feb. 5 to propose a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Rep.
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Editor’s Note: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Thursday, Feb. 5, issued a memorandum calling for the suspension of aid to the Palestinian Authority. Following is a text of that memorandum: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Over the last year, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has pursued a series of counterproductive moves aimed
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with heads of the Israeli diplomatic missions in North America, including Israel’s Ambassador to Canada and consul generals from across North America, including a number of diplomats about to take up appointments there. The President welcomed the representatives, and expressed to them the importance of their roles to the
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International, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, Feb. 8. “The major powers and Iran are galloping toward an agreement that will enable Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which will endanger the existence of the State of Israel.
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Middle East, USAMUNICH, Germany (Press Release)–Representatives of the Quartet – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State John Kerry, European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, and UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson (representing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon) – met in Munich on February 8. Recalling its previous
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International, Middle East, USA