By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I’m on the email line with Len Brown in Texas and he’s telling me about his work on the “Mars Attacks!” novelty card series for Topps back in the day. It was the early 1960s and Brown was working a dream job that combined work and play. “I
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Travel and Food
By Aviva Lee SAN DIEGO — There is most assuredly a case for the Sovereign State of Israel. In the winter of 5770 or 2009 C.E. at the Jerusalem screening of a documentary based on the Alan Dershowitz book, A Case For Israel an esteemed panel gave its own erudite analysis of the past, present and future of the governance of that tiny patch of
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–Two days following the deadly terror attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris, veteran ZAKA volunteers from Israel traveled to France to join their volunteer colleagues in the Paris Zaka unit. On Sunday evening, January 11, ZAKA International Rescue Unit head Mati Goldstein and veteran ZAKA volunteer Dano Monkotovitz immediately flew
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International, Middle East
By Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah SAN DIEGO — I am shocked. I am horrified. This last week has been a tough week for France. First the killing of 11 people at Charlie Hebdo and then the killing of four hostages at a kosher supermarket (Hyper-Cachere) in Paris. There ass also the killing of a courageous policewoman
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego musicians Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz, a husband and wife team, are among the musicians whose works are included in the just released CD, “World Music for War Child.” The song, “What Time Will It Be,” by Strom and Schwartz is included in the disk created for the purpose of
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) –– The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc., are joining forces to raise awareness about human trafficking during January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The two national groups are kicking off their first-time partnership with a Jewish Community Day of Social
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USAHAIFA (Press Release)–Involuntary hospitalization of patients with anorexia nervosa in severe condition is not detrimental to their recovery process and achieves similar positive results to those of patients who were willingly hospitalized. This is according to a new study conducted by the University of Haifa. “This finding is very significant and should be a milestone
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Killing innocent civilians in the name of Allah has failed as a terrorist tactic when: French Muslims carry signs proclaiming, “Je suis Juif.” 1.5 million Parisians rally in the streets even without the incentive of free wine and cheese. Hamas condemns the Charlie Hebdo murders (but not the Hyper Cacher
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International, Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNetanyahu joins Paris demonstrations (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday visited Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket in Paris where Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took nearly 20 shoppers hostage and killed four of the hostages. Netanyahu met with Celine Shreki, one of the surviving hostages. “A direct line leads between the attacks of extremist Islam
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Travel and FoodBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Bob Corker (R-TN) on Friday, Jan. 9, released a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to defund the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). At the same time,
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Middle East, USABy Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — If I expected it to be comfortable to watch and contemplate and evaluate Ava DuVernay’s artistic triumph as director and un-credited screenwriter of Selma, then I devalued the deeply nuanced—and brave—realization of this unexpectedly brooding and appropriately disturbing movie. With imaginative, nimble performers who become, rather than play the
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USA
By Patricia Bennett SAN DIEGO– The headlines ache our hearts and race our minds: Carnage at Charlie Hebdo; kosher market killings. What can we do? Alienated youth are joining radical groups for meaning and identity in the face of social instability and lack of opportunity. When their sense of self is not developed because they lack
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International, USA
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO–Full Disclosure: I met Abbie Hoffman at a party in Mexico City when he was hiding out there as Barry Freed. He had had a nose job, but I knew who he was as I had been following his antics since 1968 and had read his books. We hit it
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