By Yisroel Weiser SAN DIEGO — The scene in front of Beth Jacob San Diego felt big and electric. It looked like a movie premier. Big, because 175 women and girls had gathered to bake Challah and attend a multi-media class. Electric, in part, because two big flood lights illuminated the women’s outdoor workspace on […]
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) A well-known Temple Mount activist was seriously wounded in a shooting on Derech Hevron Street in Jerusalem late Wednesday night and is being treated for serious wounds in Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital. Rabbi Yehuda Glick, 49, of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation was shot at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on
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Middle East
Dare the Devil by Roger L. Conlee, © 2014, Pale Horse Books, ISBN 978-1-939917-11-9, 264 pages, $13.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This mystery novel is set in the late 1940s in Los Angeles, and author Conlee, a public relations man and former journalist, has researched the venue and era to provide verisimilitude
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Donald H. HarrisonNEW YORK (Press Release)– Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leaders stated on Wednesday, October 29: “We are deeply concerned by a number of recent public and private criticisms, personal insults and inappropriate characterizations emanating from official sources. These often anonymous, but no
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Middle East, USA
By Marlene Rissman SAN DIEGO — There is nothing like music to open the heart and awaken quieted passions. And this is what we experienced Tuesday night, Oct. 28, as the powerful and moving voice the chief cantor of the IDF, Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, and the beautiful voices of Cantor Netanel Baram, singer Jonathan
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Middle East, USAMEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Between Gaza and Berlin Those two place names signify so many different views, concepts and even worlds, seeming to encapsulate the distinct worldviews that are so much a part of our life, here in Israel. In a local and very provincial sense these are the names of two roads in Rechavia, the Jerusalem
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastSchlepping Through the American West: There is a Jewish Story Everywhere by Donald H. Harrison, The Harrison Enterprises, San Diego, CA; ISBN 978-0-5024-9401-6 ©2014, $13.97 paperback/7.99 kindle, p. 220 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — Jack Kerouac did it. John Steinbeck did it, and now we can add Don Harrison to the list of authors who traveled
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, USABy Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Israel and the United States announced the continuation of a sale of 19 new F-35 multipurpose fighter planes to Israel, as well as approval for a second squadron. Israel Aerospace Industries will be assembling the wings of this new fighter, which will also include Israeli-made components. The assembly line
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The current buzzword in American politics is “quarantine.” * Governor Christie imposed a quarantine for all people returning from travel in Ebola-stricken areas of Africa and interned a nurse who had worked there in a make-shift tent near a hospital. After yielding to pressure to allow her to return home,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Amid the international clamor against Israel for settlement over the 1967 border and other actions said to harm Palestinians, there is a contrary view of Palestinians harming themselves. Or more accurately, various figures claiming to be Palestinian leaders harming the people, seemingly for the sake of Palestine. It appeared most
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSenior Obama administration official calls Netanyahu ‘chickenshit’ (JNS.org) A senior Obama administration official told The Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” “The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded to a spate of troubling expressions of hostility toward Israel coming from the Obama administration in recent days. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said: “Last week, the Obama administration went out of its way to ‘humiliate‘ a top Israeli official in retaliation for private remarks for
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO COUNTY, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series in Coronado and Scholar Lecture Series in Carlsbad continue their seasons with filmmaker and author James (Jim) D. Long. His lecture titled, “The Riddle of the Exodus” will take place in the Shulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar
By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM–President Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin has broken many molds already since taking office. He may be the most citizen-friendly president ever to sit in that hallowed position, is truly dedicated to bridging the gaps in Israeli society and is a born and bred Jerusalemite, of the Rivlin family, descendants of the Vilna
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Middle East, The World We Share, Toby Klein Greenwald