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Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah

October 26, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Tragedies, however horrific, have a way of teaching trauma doctors at the Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem new medical facts and procedures, its chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rami Mosheiff, on Sunday, Oct. 26, told a Southern California gathering of the Hadassah support organization at the Hotel del Coronado. […]

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An Orthodox Shabbat through non-Orthodox eyes

October 26, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –Nancy and I arrived a bit earlier than necessary for the grand Shabbat service and dinner on Friday, Oct. 24, at Congregation Adat Yeshurun, watching the hustle and bustle as caterers prepared meals and set up tables in a large tent for the hundreds of people who would

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

More police assigned to violent Jerusalem area

October 26, 2014

By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–Since the tragic murder of 3 month old infant Chaya Zissel Braun on Wednesday evening, Palestinians across East Jerusalem have been rioting in various locations. Silwan, A-tur, Beit Hanina, Shuafat, and the Arab Quarter of the Old City have seen near-continuous rioting. Masked teens and young adults have been throwing rocks,

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Middle East

Humoring the headlines: October 26, 2014

October 26, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ As the world spins out of control, these new reality shows are being readied for broadcast. * Survivor: Three contestants will be parachuted into areas ISIS occupies. One will be wearing a cross and an American flag lapel pin; the second will be wearing a Jewish star and an Israeli

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Army amputee now a traveling comedian

October 26, 2014

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Joe Kashnow, Baltimore native, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002. He was stationed in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division of Colorado. He had a dream of becoming a Comanche pilot, manning helicopters. One year later, Kashnow was the victim of roadside bomb. By 2005, the young

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Travel and Food

American storyteller ‘just sleeps, eats in other places’

October 26, 2014

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Ivo Lederer was a refugee in a group of European Jews given special passage by ship to the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and he later went on to became a well-known Russian and Eastern European scholar in America. He also gave the

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Travel and Food

Rethinking two major Jewish travel stories

October 26, 2014

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO –Suppose Moses had turned west instead of east after leaving Egypt? Suppose the Ten (Lost) Tribes swept off to slavery in Assyria eventually escaped and continued eastward all the way to Japan? In the realm of all things are possible – both are interesting posits. In The Japanese and the

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International, Jewish History

Rabbi Tokayer chronicles the many Jews of Asia

October 25, 2014

Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

Baron to teach at Richard Stockton College

October 25, 2014

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World, has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

For Israel no solution is the best and only solution

October 25, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Every once in a while someone new starts reading my columns, and responds with an expression of frustration. Usually it’s something like, “Dammit, what’s your solution?” Read my lips. There ain’t any. In politics one should never say never, but in this case there is close to a century of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Nov. 7-8 Shabbaton to recall Shlomo Carlebach

October 24, 2014

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)–The twentieth anniversary of the death of the singing rabbi, Reb. Shlomo Carlebach, will be memorialized with a Shabbaton Nov 7-8 at Young Israel of San Diego, 7289 Navajo Road, in the San Carlos section of San Diego. The yahrzeit of Carlebach’s death falls this year on Nov. 9, 1994. The Shabbaton will include

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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar

Is Kerry harbinger of U.S. abandoning Israel?

October 24, 2014

By Morton Klein NEW YORK — Secretary of State John Kerry clearly believes — or wishes to be heard saying — that Israel is responsible for increased terrorism and instability roiling the Middle East. In a recent speech at a White House ceremony for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Kerry said that “there wasn’t

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Middle East, USA

This kind of rock Israelis rave about

October 24, 2014

By Anav Silverman MASADA, Israel –Underneath the Masada Mountain, along the shores of the Dead Sea, over 12,000 people danced to the electronic beats of Dash Berlin, Deep Dish and Sander Van Doorn and other international and local artists on Thursday night, October 23. The second annual Dead Sea Rave -424, which took place from

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Middle East

Hamas hails murder of 3-month-old baby

October 24, 2014

JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Gaza-based terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hailed the terrorist act in Jerusalem on Wednesday in which a baby girl died as “an act of heroism.” An Arab man from east Jerusalem rammed his car into a crowd of commuters at a light rail station, killing three-month Chaya Zissel Braun

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Middle East

Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah

An Orthodox Shabbat through non-Orthodox eyes

More police assigned to violent Jerusalem area

Humoring the headlines: October 26, 2014

Army amputee now a traveling comedian

American storyteller ‘just sleeps, eats in other places’

Rethinking two major Jewish travel stories

Rabbi Tokayer chronicles the many Jews of Asia

Baron to teach at Richard Stockton College

For Israel no solution is the best and only solution

Nov. 7-8 Shabbaton to recall Shlomo Carlebach

Is Kerry harbinger of U.S. abandoning Israel?

This kind of rock Israelis rave about

Hamas hails murder of 3-month-old baby

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