By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–In the summer after she graduated from college, my daughter Dena volunteered for a short stint with the Israel Defense Force. She was posted to a naval base outside Haifa, but because she didn’t speak Hebrew she was assigned to applying bright red paint to the curbs on the edge of
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Travel and Food
CHICAGO (Press Release)– A week ago, Dr. Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, Deputy Associate Chief of Staff and Clinical Neuroscientist at the Edward Hines JR VA Hospital, was ready to give up. For months, she had been attempting to secure medical air transport for U.S. Army Sergeant Jordan Adams, who was languishing in a coma in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin LAGUNA HILLS, California’– The woman in the center was celebrating her 100th birthday; the one to my right stepped into the photo and reminded me, “I’m older than her!” That’s the kind of moxie and strength that compels me to dedicate today (Jan. 11), my 62nd birthday, to the boomers and
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Travel and Food
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — When handed lemons some people complain, others make lemonade and one or two create Chateau Lafite Rothschild. In the late 1700’s when the ghetto gate slammed shut at night, the Jews of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were locked into an urban prison. The inhabitants of that horribly crowded ghetto
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Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Nothing is more boring that someone else’s weather. However, this is Jerusalem. And there is a policy angle to every story. Snow is a rarity. Until last year, it had only amounted to a 3-5 inches once every 5-10 years, with a dusting once or twice between then. Even a dusting frightens
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence on Thursday, Jan. 8, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson that left 6 people dead and injured 13 others, including then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona). She also released this
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Natan Sharansky is by no means the only Israeli who says that Europe is doomed, at least as far as the Jews are concerned. In view of what has happened in Paris this week, one headline I saw described his words as prophetic. But it’s not only France that Sharansky has
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International, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — In the past few years that I have been lucky enough to have this Internet gig as an occasional columnist for this online newspaper in California, and always under the kind guidance of an editor who forever steers me to the right way of saying things. I’ve often
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Sports & CompetitionsSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—From the local level to the national and international, Jewish agencies on Friday, January 9, solidarity with France and condolences for the victims following a string of Islamist attacks against a French satire magazine, police officers, and customers in a kosher market. Michael Sonduck, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Sean Savage/JNS.org In the wake of Islamist terror attacks that killed a combined 16 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris, the leader of a prominent Christian-Jewish aid group told JNS.org that he is exploring ways to help French Jews immigrate to Israel. Brothers Cherif Kouachi and
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International, Middle EastBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org In a traumatic week for Paris that saw the murders of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, and a police officer in Montrouge—all coming at the hands of Islamist terrorists—the violence was accompanied by the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
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International, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – George Washington was often compared to the Roman general Cincinnatus, who after winning a war returned home to become, once again, a farmer. Washington, following the victory over the British at Yorktown, did just that, content to once again run his plantation. But, as we all know, his
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Donald H. HarrisonPARIS (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee’s Paris director has called for stepped up efforts to combat Islamist terrorism in France as violent attacks in Paris over the past two days expanded to a kosher supermarket. “What happened over the past 48 hours was a shock to the entire French nation,” said Simone Rodan-Benazquen,
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Conference of Presidents leaders Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, expressed the solidarity of the Jewish community of the United States with the people of France in the wake of the horrendous attacks by Islamist terrorists on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, the killing of the female police
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Jewish Religion, USA