By Ezra Friedlander NEW YORK–The term “true friend “is used so often that it’s a cliché but when used in context with the late Mario Cuomo it’s totally appropriate. As we mourn the passing of Governor Cuomo, I find myself going down memory lane. Growing up, still as a yeshiva student, before I officially entered
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Israelis appear to like the Pope more than their Chief Rabbis. 50% of all Israelis (the highest figure in any non-Christian country) approve of the current leader of the Catholic Church and only 25% disapprove while 67% of Israelis are against the continued existence of the country’s chief rabbinate. The data
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastCompiled by JNS.org Southern Israelis protest IDF decision to end security for Gaza-border communities (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has decided to end its security presence along the communities adjacent to the Israel-Gaza border, sparking strong protests by the area’s residents. Following Operation Protective Edge, the IDF deployed hundreds of soldiers
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International, Middle East, USAAudacity by Melanie Crowder, Penguin Group Philomel Books, (c) 20015, 385 pages including glossary, family interview, and selected bibliography, $17.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I suppose, if one stuck strictly to the historical facts, Clara Lemlich’s life could be summarized in a few paragraphs. She grew up in an Orthodox home in
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Norman Lear is92, and he’s not slowing down very much. His autobiography, Even This I Get to Experience, tells the whole megillah of his life and times as a comedy writer and sitcom producer Remember when Lear’s path-breaking show All in the Family debuted in 1971? He also produced Sanford
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Republican Steve Scalise, the Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, claims he was unaware that David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization was a racist group when he delivered a speech at its annual conference in 2002. Critics wonder how he could have overlooked that the dress code for
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Are the Palestinians our enemies, or maybe only our adversaries? They’ve been trying to topple us from the 1920s, but we’re still here, and doing a lot better than they are. Remember the UN declaration that Zionism is racism? It caught on with the international rabble, but didn’t make a
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Ira Sharkansky, USA-Summary by JNS.org– Palestinian terrorist behind murder of 3 teens convicted (Israel Hayom/ Exclusive to JNS.org) Husam Qawasmeh, the Palestinian terrorist who planned kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens Gil-ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach last June, was convicted in a military court on Wednesday on all charges against him. Qawasmeh admitted to planning
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Once, a burly, gruff looking, man who had served in the Russian army, entered a Jewish inn and ordered a meal. When Jewish boys were drafted, it was usually the end of yiddishkeit for them. The army brainwashed them to worship Mother Russia rather than G-d. He plopped
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It’s that time of year again when movie reviewers prepare their lists of the ten best films they’ve seen over the past twelve months. I hesitate doing this knowing there are many Jewish films I won’t see until their local premieres at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. DOCUMENTARIES: Finding
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –Write Out Loud and the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture have announced that “an evening of Jewish stories,” will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in the Samuel and Rebecca Astor Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Among the secheduled stories, authors
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Travel and FoodPeople of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book From the Beginning of Printing Until the Twentieth Century by Akiva A. Aaronson, Feldheim Publishers, Nanuet, NY; ISBN 978-1-59826-956-7 ©2014, $39.99, p. 231, including appendices, indices,bibliography, and glossary By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Communicating orally is an endowment of nature through such organs as the
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –The American Jewish Committee (AJC) denounced Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s application for International Criminal Court (ICC) membership as an unconscionable blow to the peace process. Abbas announced Wednesday, Dec. 31, at a Ramallah rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of his Fatah party that he had signed the Rome Statute, the ICC
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The U.S. Area Elections Committee chair has found that there is no basis for the request made by the ZOA to disqualify the Hatikvah progressive Zionist slate, established for the upcoming World Zionist Congress elections in the United States. Ironically, the ZOA is attempting to delegitimize the ideological heirs of those who
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