By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Michael Lederer is an American novelist living in Berlin and he often travels around Europe by train: trains to Poland, trains to France, trains to Italy. When news reached me theother day that Germany’s Deutsche Bahn railway company had decided to end the sleeper service between Berlin and […]
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–This year, the first night of Chanukah is Tuesday December 16, 2014, at which time we will light one Chanukah light plus the shamash. The second night we light 2 lights plus a shamash. The third night we light 3 lights plus a shamash, and so on and so forth
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Jewish ReligionNEW YORK (Press Release)– Israel’s war against Hamas terror, rising anti-Semitism in Europe, the shootings at the Overland Park, Kansas Jewish community center by a career white supremacist, a noticeable rise in anti-Israel activity on campus, and the proliferation of anti-Jewish hate speech on the Internet topped the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual list of top
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International, Middle East, USAThe Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People by Shalom Salomon Wald, Academic Studies Press, Boston and Jerusalem; ISBN 978-1-61811-377-1 ©2014, $33.00, p. 372, plus appendices, bibliography, notes, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Physical scientists think that the world can be explained by theories and their concomitant mathematical equations.
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HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — In two articles recently published in leading journals (Ugarit Forschungen and Semitica), Prof. Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa (Department of Biblical Studies) presented important information about the period of David’s reign, based on new archaeological and epigraphic data unearthed in northwestern Syria and southern Turkey. Prof. Galil points
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationUNITED NATIONS (WJC) — The PA plans to submit a draft resolution on ending the Israeli occupation to the United Nations Security Council and will seek a vote on it as early as this Wednesday, senior Palestinian officials said Sunday night, according to ‘Haaretz‘. The resolution sets out a two-year timetable for Israel to withdraw
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InternationalSYDNEY, Australia (WJC) –More than a dozen people were being held hostage on Monday by a gunman who forced them to display a flag of the Islamic State in the window. The building in which the café is located also contains government offices. Armed officers surrounded the Lindt Chocolat Café in Martin Place in Sydney’s
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InternationalHamas marks 27th anniversary with vow that ‘Zionist entity will disappear’ (JNS.org) The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Sunday celebrated the 27th anniversary of its founding with military parades and a display of weapons and ammunition, including a drone manufactured in Gaza. A film clip screened at one of the demonstrations showed a silhouette that
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Middle EastBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — “I’m so hurried at this time of the year, I don’t have time to breathe,” my Caffeinated Corner buddy spouted on and on. What’s a Caffeinated Corner? Oh, that’s the group I see nearly every morning at the local Starbucks where we sit and over coffee and a
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Michael MantellBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Jews have had a Diaspora at least since the middle of the sixth century before the common era. During the time of the Second Temple, a substantial number, perhaps even a majority, lived outside of the Judean homeland. The Jerusalem-centered Diaspora figures in Christian anti-Semitism, via the episode of Jesus overturning the
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Not only is the Hannukah menorah going to light up with brilliance this month, but Twitter has also lit up with some hilarious Hannukah humor. “I plan to start saying a hearty ‘Molotov!’ to all my Jewish friends,” Jeff Chu, a reporter at Fast Company, tweeted the other
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Trivia, Humor & SatireLA MESA, California (Press Release) – Chabad of El Cajon has arranged a Chanukah celebration outside the Bath & Body Works at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, according to Rabbi Rafi Andrusier. The event will include live music, dancing, gelt, fresh latkes, coffee, a grand raffle, visits from elected officials, and the lighting of a
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In the late 1800’s, a man who lived in a shtetel (small town) near Kiev (Russia) wrote a story about his milkman, Tevya. It was an unlikely story written in an unlikely language. At that time Jewish writers wrote either in Hebrew or the language of the country within
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Travel and FoodBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — A client recently bought an expensive new car. He hasn’t been the same since. He’s been ranting about how expensive it is, how he shouldn’t have spent so much, and on and on. I asked him about what type of options he put into it and he angrily spewed, “A
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