By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — There is a story many years ago of an elementary teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students […]
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Science, Medicine, & EducationNetanyahu: bill to ban free newspapers ‘shames the Knesset’ (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted legislation seeking to outlaw free newspapers in Israel, walking out of Wednesday’s preliminary vote on the bill. The Israeli Knesset came out in favor of a bill intended to shut down the free newspaper Israel Hayom. Netanyahu said the 43-23
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — “The escalating terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and other areas are of grave concern and must be put to an end. Israel must do everything possible to protect its citizens and restore peaceful conditions. The Palestinian Authority must immediately take steps to restore order. Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials must
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Middle East, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — If you follow the modern dance scene in San Diego, then you already know the name “Malashock.” A former company member of Twyla Tharp’s, John Malashock dances have been commissioned by SD Opera, SD Symphony, the Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse among others. His dance films have
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By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California—Ari Shavit, the Ha’aretz columnist who seeks a new narrative for Israel in his book My Promised Land, has called on Israel to engage in a “Marshall Plan” for the Gaza Strip, while at the same time dealing with Hamas “very strictly.” The Marshall Plan, named for U.S. Secretary of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— As football players are learning, a violent blow to the head has the potential to cause mild to severe traumatic brain injury — physical damage to the brain that can be debilitating, even fatal. The long-term effects run the gamut of human functioning, from trouble communicating to extensive cognitive and behavioral
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Upon stepping off of Air Force One at Beijing Airport, President Obama was besieged by Chinese creditors demanding that he pay off loans they made to the United States. * Breitbart News erroneously alleged that President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General Loretta Lynch had served as the Clintons’ lawyer in
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By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–Over a thousand people crowded into the Mount Herzl military cemetery on Tuesday, Nov. 11, to escort Staff Sergeant Almog Shiloni to his final resting place. Shiloni was murdered Monday in Tel Aviv in a terror attack. Shiloni was buried with full military honors, and was promoted one rank posthumously.
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Middle EastRiots sweep through Israeli Arab towns after terrorist stabbings (JNS.org) The terrorist stabbing attacks that took place in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion on Monday—killing 26-year-old Israeli woman Dahlia Lemkus and 20-year-old Israel Defense Forces Staff Sgt. Almog Shiloni—emboldened an already violent Arab sector. A senior source with Israel’s Northern District police department told Israel
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, released a detailed plan Sunday on how to wipe Israel off the map of the Middle East. On his official Twitter account, Khamenei published a ‘plan’ that in his view represents “the only means of bringing Israeli crimes to an end. “During its 66
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Arabs/Palestinians of Israel and the West Bank have another martyr that justifies continuing their wave of demonstrations that began when? Maybe with the recent wave of Jews going demonstrably to the Temple Mount. Now it’s a young man, Kheir al-Din Hamdan, killed by the police in the village of Kfar
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By Jack Forman ENCINITAS, California — Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger captivated an audience of about 250 people at Temple Solel on Sunday, November 9 with an honest, moving, and provocative 45-minute talk at the Jewish Book Fair about his stranger-than-fiction life growing up in post-World War II Germany, converting to Judaism, raising a family in Israel, and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle EastBy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–A terrorist stabbed three people Monday, Nov. 10, at the hitchhiking station near the western entrance to Alon Shvut, murdering a 25 year old woman. She was reached by paramedics, but they were unable to save her. Two other men, aged 26 and 50, were injured in the attack. The terrorist
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s Disease and multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks its own body rather than predatory invaders, affect 5-20% of the global community. A study published recently in Autoimmunity Reviews by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel Aviv University’s
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