By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Relax? Impossible. Too much is threatening. Daesh, whatever that is, is chopping heads and managing to evade the US air campaign (along with a few other participants providing 10 percent of the airstrikes), and imposing its draconian Islam across much of Syria and Iraq. Hamas says that it intends to do
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Elie Wiesel asks “Why?” In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate for peace since 1986, tells the story of a television interview in which he was asked what he would say to God if he could talk to him. His answer was
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Middle EastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “And how does that make you feel?” I asked David Ellenstein as we chatted in the rehearsal space of North Coast Repertory Theater. I, in the chair, notepad in hand, and David, director of “Freud’s Last Session” on the chaise. And so began our fifty-minute-hour interview about this imaginary
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (WJC) — The frightening situation of many Christian communities in the Middle East will be center-stage at events in Israel next week on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles, at which several thousand Christian pilgrims are expected to visit Israel, making it the country’s largest tourist event. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and World
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The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg, Random House © 2013, ISBN 978-0-679-64374-6; 336 pages, $26. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—There are two mysteries to be solved in The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg, who contributes articles on books and dance to San Diego Jewish World. One mystery is the central story of this novel.
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel– “Can’t you see I’m in the middle of doing something?” “I couldn’t write the number down because the phone call woke me up.” “I’ll call you later, I have to finish this now.” These and similar responses are what almost every wife hears when she asks her husband to help
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson3 Israeli police officers injured in Temple Mount riot (JNS.org) Three Israeli police officers were injured by stones and fireworks when clashes broke out on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, Israel Hayom reported. They were treated for their injuries by police medics on site. As soon as the Temple Mount was opened to visitors
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Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya; 307 pages. Riverhead Books. $27.95 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s sentences frolic. They gambol. They have so much fun in Panic in a Suitcase, a marvel of a first novel about a Jewish immigrant family from Odessa, that you can’t wait to join the party. Those
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Travel and Food
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)–Some three thousand years ago, King David himself probably never imagined cars racing at 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour) through the ancient capital of the Jewish people. But on Monday and Tuesday, October 6-7, thousands of Israelis lined the streets to watch Porsche, Audi and Ferrari race cars fly through the capital
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Each year the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame honors five women who have been particularly outstanding in their field. At least eleven of the past 81 selectees have come from the Jewish community, among them: Dee Aker, Barbara Bry, Bonnie Dumanis, Gracia Molina de Pick, Judy Forman, Gloria Harris,
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Through the State Department’s sports diplomacy programs, 30 Israeli and Palestinian youth basketball coaches are connecting with each other and their American peers on and off the court October 5-19. This exchange program is part of the U.S. Government’s efforts to assist those who believe people of different nationalities, ethnicities,
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VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (Press Release) — A Baptist group in the United States issued a resolution reaffirming the “historic American Baptist stand against anti-Semitism.” The resolution, issued by American Baptist Churches USA’s (ABC USA) International Ministries (IM), declares anti-Semitism to be “wholly contrary to Jesus’ teaching” and that it “demeans Jesus and all people of
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Jewish Religion, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –No cyber connections. No roar of television commercials in the background. No numbing news cycle of repeated bad developments. No usernames or passwords; just loving faces and star shine. And the moon smiling down through a thatched roof. Wednesday night, Oct. 8, when many Jews, from Pittsburgh to Paris,
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Jewish ReligionTwo Israeli soldiers injured by Hezbollah blast along Lebanon border (JNS.org) Two Israeli soldiers were wounded by an explosion near the Lebanon border on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit said. The Hezbollah terrorist organization later claimed responsibility for the blast. According to the IDF, the blast was caused by a explosive device planted
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