SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — State Sen. Marty Block’s office reports that after last Tuesday’s elections, the Jewish Caucus in the State Legislature will have nime members, one short of a minyan. All nine members are Democrats. Two members of the current Legislature–former Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal– were required not
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Travel and FoodBy Ehud Amiton HEBRON, Israel (Tazpit) –Border Guard policemen on routine patrol in the Hebron casbah on Wednesday, Nov. 5, identified a Palestinian boy lying unconscious on the floor. A police officer and a paramedic team quickly ran to the boy, while reporting the incident and calling for additional medical help. Early examination of
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected calls from right-wing lawmakers and ministers to lift restrictions on Jews praying on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, insisting there would be no change in its status quo. The site – which includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, both also revered by Muslims
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Middle EastReport: Obama sent letter on Islamic State to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-October expressing their shared interest in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq. The Wall Street Journal reported that the letter—which left Israel
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–What’s in it for Israelis? Israeli issues were by no means the whole of what was considered by something like 100 million overwhelmingly non-Jewish voters. Israeli interests may not have been critical in any of the House or Senate races, or mattered even a great deal, but they were in there somewhere.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Reports from around the country indicate that 10 Jewish senators and 20 Jewish members of the House of Representatives will serve in the next Congress. That is approximately a ten percent decrease from 11 senators and 22 members of the House of Representatives who are currently serving in Congress.
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Donald H. HarrisonWASHNGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, issued the following statement on President Obama’s request for emergency funding to address Ebola in Africa and public health preparedness in the United States. “The Ebola epidemic has taken a tragic toll in Liberia, Sierra
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPARIS, France (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh “discussed the increasing tensions recently in areas across Jerusalem, and particularly surrounding the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. We condemn the terrorist attack in Jerusalem this morning that killed at least one person when a car was
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Somewhere in hell Joseph McCarthy watched last night’s election results. Not knowing that television networks now designate Republican states as red and Democratic ones as blue, he looked at the electoral map and commented, “I warned them the communists would take over the United States!” * Boko Haram reported that
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, is urging governments worldwide to condemn unequivocally Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, and to press the Palestinian Authority to make every effort to deter, rather than incite, further assaults. “Hamas rockets and missiles may be quiet for the moment, but Palestinian
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek has assured Israel that “despite reports in the media to the contrary, the Czech Republic does not intend to make any strategic change in its policies toward Israel.” With respect to a debate in several EU member states about the recognition of Palestinian statehood, Zaorálek said unilateral
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International, Middle EastArab terrorist drives car into Jerusalem crowd, killing 1 in another rail attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Arab terrorist intentionally ran his vehicle into a crowd of people near the Shimon Hatzadik light rail station in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, killing one person and wounding at least 13 others. The terrorist was shot dead
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International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Many readers of San Diego Jewish World live outside the United States so for them, principally, I thought I would provide some insight into how an American election works. Traditionally, today, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day, but for weeks preceding the election we
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Arnon Groiss JERUSALEM (IRNA) — On the 11th of Heshvan, which in 2014 fell on November 4, Jews observe the “yaarzeit” memorial for Rachel, the Biblical matriarch who bore Joseph and died in child birth as Benjamin was born. As part of our agency’s continuing reportage of the PA school books now used in the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East