By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Late last month I got word from a Japanese friend in Tokyo that a dear woman in my life, Celia Bertin, had passed away in Paris at the age of 94. Mr Watanabe, who speaks and writes French fluently and is a friend of mine from my days […]
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Congregation Beth Israel will officially install Rabbi Jordie Gerson as its assistant rabbi in a Shabbat celebration on Friday, December 5 at 6:15 p.m. Rabbi Gerson started as assistant rabbi of Beth Israel in July. Rabbi Gerson’s father, Rabbi Gary Gerson, rabbi emeritus of Oak Park Temple in Oak Park, Illinois
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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The subject of the status of women in Israel is a tricky one, because on the one hand Israel aspires to be a modern, democratic society, and in the public sphere women are treated as equals, on the whole. On the other hand, though, its laws regarding marriage and
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Travel and FoodBy Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — A few weeks ago in a comment to the San Diego Jewish World, The Leichtag Foundation responded to my earlier criticism by saying that their donations “…involves the prerogative of a private foundation making determinations on best use of its resources. We are confident that our grant to the
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Middle East
By Melanie Goldberg/JNS.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. (JNS) — It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year that featured Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement. You’d expect that of any student opposed to the speaker’s anti-Israel views. I planned to challenge Barghouti
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPARIS (Press Release) – The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, adopted today, by a vote of 339 to 151, a resolution urging the French government to recognize the state of Palestine as a step to achieve a resolution of the conflict. “The path to sustainable, permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace is direct bilateral negotiations, and not
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Celebrating the San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Silver Anniversary, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 5-15, 2015. Sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. On February 9th, 45 short films beginning at 10:00am to 7:30pm
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Travel and FoodReport: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made
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Middle East, USAMichael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–In .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” Millions of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many
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Michael MantellSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– For the first time ever, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County is participating in #givingtuesday, a global day of philanthropy following Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. On Tuesday, December 2, the Federation will launch a one day campaign in an effort raise enough money to provide 1,000 hot, home-delivered meals
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San Diego CountyNGO Monitor leader ‘not surprised’ of AP media ban (JNS.org) NGO Monitor leader Professor Gerald Steinberg says he is “not surprised” of the alleged revelation that the Associated Press banned its reporters from contacting the watchdog organization. In an article published in The Atlantic on Sunday exploring media bias covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former AP
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– This license plate introduces the vehicle owner as an aunt. “Tante” means aunt in Yiddish. Whose aunt we can’t say, because IM could mean I’m, as in I am, or it might be the initials of someone to whom the driver is an aunt. Regardless, score another interesting Yiddish-influenced license plate to
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
JERUSALEM (WJC) — On Sunday, Nov. 30, Israel officially remembered the suffering of an estimated 850,000 Jews who left, were expelled from, or fled from their homes in, Arab and other Muslim countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel. The national day of commemoration for Jewish refugees from Arab lands
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born
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