Kerry wants religious status quo at Temple Mount

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement concerning the aftermath to the shooting of Temple Mount advocate  Rabbi Yehudah Glick by a Palestinian terrorist on Wednesday, Oct. 29: “I strongly condemn yesterday’s shooting of a U.S. citizen outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. My thoughts and prayers are […]

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Chinese investors laud Israel’s high tech

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of Israel’s most influential business meetings, the 12th Go4Israel Conference, was held this week on Tuesday, October 27, at the Hilton Tel Aviv, and paid particular attention to China. Over 1,000 participants took part in the conference including international and local entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders. “The conference reflects

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International, Middle East

Netanyahu: Abbas partly responsible for Glick shooting

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that incitement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was partly to blame for the shooting of a Temple Mount activist a night earlier. Netanyahu convened a meeting of top security officials on Thursday morning, a day after Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a prominent activist for Jewish

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Middle East

Novel tells of Vilna and Brooklyn in 1940s

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger, shewritespress.com, 2014, 978-1-63152-907-8, 301 pgs.,$16.95 By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Recently nominated by The American Library Association for its yearly Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature, this moving novel revisits one of the bleakest periods, not just in Jewish memory, but in world history.  In this debut work, Sande

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Travel and Food

AJC: Sweden’s recognition of Palestine a disservice

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called Sweden’s recognition of the “State of Palestine” an act of empty symbolism that will not advance the peace process. “Sweden’s misguided act will further complicate the quest for peace by telling the Palestinians they can skip the negotiating table with Israel, while telling Israel

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International, Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: October 30, 2014

Sweden officially recognizes a Palestinian state (JNS.org) Sweden on Thursday officially recognized a Palestinian state, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that the “criteria of international law” have been met because there is “a [Palestinian] territory, a people, and government,” The Associated Press reported. New Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had supported a Palestinian state

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Travel and Food

Bibi vs. Barack: How important are leaders’ friendships?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It approached the mythic stories of conflict between giants. Or maybe between a giant and a midget, or David and Goliath. Perhaps just a street brawl among ruffians. Whatever image, and whoever is defined as giant, midget, David, Goliath or a ruffian, it occupied the pundits until a shooting of a

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

When one door closes….

By Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO — Vote after informal vote, I was in the top five. But when the official decision of who was going to move ahead from the Master’s degree program to the doctoral program, I was reminded of my mother’s words, “Michael, when one door closes another opens.” I wasn’t among the

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Michael Mantell

Youth may now apply for Bronfman Fellowships

ALBANY, New York (Press Release)–Applications are now being accepted for the 29th year of the Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel (BYFI) .  The Bronfman Fellowships selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel between the summer of Fellows’ junior and senior years of high school.

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Middle East

Carol & Harvey Korfin team to display their art Nov. 2

  SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Carol and Harvey Korfin are both artisans who will be displaying their creations at the Temple Emanu-El artisan festival on Sunday, Nov. 2. Their creations reflect their different interests Carol, who markets her glass creations under the name “The Glass Giraffe,” says no two pieces of her fused glass art are

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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar

Adira in title role prompts plenty of kvelling

  By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The J Company’s production of Peter Pan is playing for two more weekends at the David and Dorthea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC. As grandmother of Adira Rosen, in the title role, I, of course am interested in encouraging all to see this musical. But,

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Eileen Wingard, Marcia Tatz Wollner, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast