The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. By Gina B. Nahai; 413 pages. Akashic Books. $29.95 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO– The term “magic realism” arose to describe the juxtaposition of the everyday and the fantastic in novels by Latin American authors like Gabriel García Márquez. In her first novel, Cry of the Peacock (1992), Gina B.
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Travel and FoodCompiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Jewish officeholders and organizations offered a diverse chorus of reactions to President Barack Obama’s “State of the Union” address on Tuesday, Jan. 20. These included: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado): “Too many Colorado families still lack economic security despite the recent momentum in our recovery. There are
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The election campaign in Israel is going from national to regional to global. The national manifests itself in customary campaign rhetoric, often in bad taste, such as Netanyahu’s ad using children in a nursery school to denigrate his political opponents. (A judge has now banned the ad and made
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Middle East, USABy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO –It is said that lightning never strikes twice, but I don’t think Sophie Tuttleman would concur. Her earliest memory of her dad is the ambulance carrying him off just before he died of Hodgkin’s disease. Sophie and her little sister, Emma, developed an abject fear of losing their mother. Jan
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –I’m on the email line with Paddy Hernon in Canada, and he’s giving me a brief introductory-level tutorial on the Hebrew language. As a teenager in the early 1960s, three days a week after regular school was over, I hopped on a yellow school bus with the designatation “United
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Parents who very closely monitor their children’s Internet use in an attempt to reduce unsafe online behavior may actually be achieving the opposite effect, according to a new study conducted by University of Haifa researchers. “It seems that during adolescence, during which teens are seeking ways to achieve autonomy, overly restrictive monitoring
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Norway’s largest charitable organization, the Olav Thon Foundation, which invests heavily in medical research, awarded its first international research award in the medical and natural sciences to Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Yosef Shiloh and Prof. Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, California. The prize money, NOK 5,000,000
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationUnlocking the Torah Text, An In-Depth Journey Into The Weekly Torah Portion: Devarim by Samuel Goldin, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem; ISBN 978-965-229-526-2 ©2014, $29.95, p. 382, plus sources and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–The fifth of the Five Books of Moses, called in Hebrew Devarim and in English the Book of Deuteronomy, is Moses’
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion“It all started with a dame….” By Eric George Tauber SOLANA BEACH, California– They all start with a dame, a blond dame, a femme fatale who’s drop-dead gorgeous and in big trouble, desperate for help. The ubiquity of noir detective stories makes them easy targets for parody. Just listen to Prairie Home
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Sunday’s news was of Israel’s liquidation of a prominent Hezbollah officer, the son of an even more senior Hezbollah officer who Israel liquidated some years ago. Along with him went five other Hezbollah and six Iranian combatants, including one general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The Hezbollah officer was said to be
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPalestinian terrorist wounds more than a dozen in Tel Aviv stabbing attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) More than a dozen Israelis were wounded, with at least four suffering serious injuries, when a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing spree at a main road intersection in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning. A Palestinian male in
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is the text of President Barack Obama’s 6th State of the Union address as transcribed by the White House,with instances of applause noted in parentheses. THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror
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USALOS ANGELES (Press Release)– For the first time, young Israeli-Americans from college campuses across North America will gather in Los Angeles this week for the inaugural Mishelanu National Conference of the Israeli-American Council (IAC). Mishelanu is a national campus-based program that strengthens the identity of Israeli-American college students. The conference, with the theme “Meet Your
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