By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — One tries hard to believe that mainstream journalism about the unrelenting Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unprejudiced and evenhanded. One wants to believe that the reporters are unleavened with impartiality and do not give in to their inevitable human biases. A glaring and hurtful exclusion in a renowned US newspaper […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Mike Zak’s, z”l, was a Past President of Tifereth Israel Synagogue,a longtime active and supportive congregant, and a Holocaust survivor. One of his favorite stories was about his arrival in San Diego as a refugee and having to obtain a Social Security card. He asked, “What is Social
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Jewish Religion
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) voiced profound disappointment regarding the Metropolitan Opera commitment to proceed with Death of Klinghoffer. The Met premier of this controversial opera is scheduled for October 20, 2014. The Met, apparently sensitive to mounting criticism of an opera that glorifies and romanticizes terrorism, has already canceled the simulcast
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Middle East, USAScottish independence rejected, Jewish fears averted (JNS.org) Scottish citizens rejected independence from the United Kingdom in a 55-45 percent referendum vote, a result that puts to rest the concerns of some Jews that independence would have been accompanied by a rise in anti-Israel sentiment. “The Jewish community [leans] more towards the no vote than the
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hailed Thursday night’s unanimous passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of a resounding Congressional condemnation of anti-Semitism and rejection of attempts to justify expressions of anti-Jewish hatred or violence targeting Jews as merely criticism of Israel. The bipartisan resolution clearly delineates when opposition to a policy
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Returning to Congregation Beth Israel, at which she had her first teaching job at its now defunct Jewish day school, San Diego City School Superintendent Cindy Marten on Thursday evening, Sept.18, offered a step-by-step program for instilling student self-discipline. She coupled that with a promise that her administration
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman TEL AVIV–In a special initiative to enable families to spend the Jewish New Year together, an airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from 10 different international locations, IS bringing parents of lone soldiers serving in the IDF to Israel. Flights are taking off from New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, St.
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Applications for the 2014 Peter Chortek Leadership Award recognizing Jewish teens residing in San Diego for their extraordinary service, philanthropy and leadership are now open through the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego at www.jcfsandiego.org/pcla. In its fourth year, the Peter Chortek Leadership Award highlights high school students who impact their
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San Diego County
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Following one of the most stressful and difficult summers in recent years, more than 50 women from Sderot spent a day in Jerusalem with The Koby Mandell Foundation, taking part in healing and stress reducing activities. The Foundation, created by Seth and Sherri Mandell after the tragic murder of their son Koby 13 years
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
HAIFA (Press Release) — “In a region of collapsing countries that are in states of internal and external war, Israel must prepare for waves of immigrants from Arab countries to its territory, which may endanger its existence,” maintain Prof. Arnon Soffer, who holds the Reuven Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa, and Dr. Anton
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Middle EastIran shows ‘no real flexibility’ in nuclear talks, Israel says (JNS.org) Israel is “deeply concerned” because Iran is showing “no real flexibility” in negotiations over its nuclear program, Israeli Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Wednesday ahead of the resumption of negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 powers in New York.
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Travel and FoodMichael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO– This year it begins on Wednesday evening, September 25th. Our chance, once again, to reset the “character clock” and start renewed, fresh, and cleansed. With the beginning of the “High Holidays,” Jews throughout the world are offered the opportunity again to join in the oldest, most widespread, and clearly
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s been a week since President Barack Obama’s great speech, and there has been little beyond solemn statements of support, along with reservations about doing anything concrete. The President boasted of a multi-nation coalition. In one statement it was claimed that 40 nations had signed on, with no American boots on
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called on Bolivian President Eva Morales to urgently take concrete measures to counter the rise in anti-Semitism, some of it violent, in the South American country. {Correction: The Bolivian President is Evo Morales, not Eva. He is a man, not a woman. Please see comments below}
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International, Middle East