By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What’s happening? It’s not clear. Among the signs inviting assessment are: The IDF appears to be upping its efforts to exact higher costs from Hamas and those supporting or tolerating it. Among recent targets have been a 14 story apartment building that collapsed as the result of two rockets, perhaps […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–Three Israeli Arabs were injured Sunday afternoon at the Erez Crossing checkpoint by a mortar shell fired from Gaza. As a result of the incident, which occurred during the transfer of Gazan patients for medical treatment in Israel, authorities have announced the closing the Erez Crossing checkpoint between Israel and the
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Middle EastBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA) — With Israel continuing to score major hits in Gaza, at least 25 Gazans suspected of collaboration with Israel are believed to have been killed by Hamas operatives in recent days Saturday evening, a 13-story building housing a massive Hamas command center was demolished by the IDF, with the army
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Middle East
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — When a health risk gets closer to home, health care professionals base their positions on vaccines more on emotions and personal experiences than on scientific and analytical knowledge, according to a new study by the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa. “When the risk is remote it
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman NAHAL OZ, Israel (TNA)–The four-year-old victim of the Hamas rocket at attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Friday, August 22, was laid to rest on Sunday morning. Daniel Tragerman was killed on Friday afternoon, Aug. 22, by rocket shrapnel in his family’s home, when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip
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Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — How did it come about that a high born Christian knight, newly returned from a Crusade to the Holy Land, voluntarily engaged in mortal combat to defend the life and honor of a Jewish woman he barely knew and did not love? Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe is a classic
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We’ve all heard the popular adage: Anything worth doing is worth doing well. But, I live by a different motto: not everything worth doing is worth doing well. In other words, some things just need to be completed in a way that is good enough but not
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Congressman Louis Gohmert of Texas charges that the Muslim Brotherhood exerts a strong influence on the Obama administration He claims to have seen footage of Obama prostrating himself several times on a green carpet. Other reporters say these are just YouTube clips of the President picking up golf balls from
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In the Talmud Rabbi Yosi comments on this verse from parashat R’eih: “When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the Lord our God is allotting to you…” (Deut. 10:12) Rabbi Yosi taught: “The Israelites were given three commandments when they entered the land of
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re hearing another round of criticism that Benyamin Netanyahu has no strategy. Critics are calling him the status quo Prime Minister, aspiring to nothing more than quiet, and seeing the status quo the best option for Israel in both the West Bank and Gaza. Singing in the chorus are well
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)-A coalition of groups concerned about civil rights and Jewish affairs has issued a statement protesting the assault and battery against a Jewish student at Temple University in Philadelphia by members of Students for Justice in Palestine. The statement from the coalition follows: “We are deeply troubled by the physical assault against
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USARockets pound southern Israel, IDF calls up 10,000 reservists (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hamas terrorists continued to barrage southern Israel on Friday, August 22, firing more than 30 rockets at Beersheba, Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot, and the Gaza periphery communities. The Iron Dome defense system intercepted six rockets fired at heavily populated areas. One man sustained
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Beth Israel of San Diego named Jordana “Jordie” Gerson as its new assistant rabbi. She brings to Beth Israel a unique blend of traditional rabbinic work within congregations as well as energy and creative ideas on ways to engage with young adults. Gerson recently completed a year as the Visiting Rabbinic
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Temple Emanu-El has appointed Shiri Haines as its new executive director. Haines, who grew up in San Diego and Orange County, spent time in the Navy and in business before taking her first synagogue job ten years ago. At Adath Emanu-El in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, she served as an administrative assistant,
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County