SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Tarbuton has been named one of North America’s top 82 innovative Jewish organizations in the tenth annual Slingshot Guide. The Guide has become a go-to resource for volunteers, activists and donors looking for new opportunities and projects that, through their innovative nature, will ensure the Jewish community remains relevant and
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San Diego CountyLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – San Diego’s internationally recognized San Diego Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 20th year with headliner Ari Shavit. Book Fair events will run from November 8 through November 16, and are presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS.
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Travel and FoodU.S. denies it prevented FBI from aiding search for Israeli soldier (JNS.org) A U.S. official denied a report published by Israel Hayom that the U.S. prevented the FBI from aiding Israel in the search for IDF soldier Oron Shaul, who was initially feared kidnapped during Operation Protective Edge. Shaul was later deemed to be killed
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Two chemical weapons-related stories this week should be considered separate, not necessarily interchangeable, parts of a whole. The first was that ISIS had used chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Kobani, raising the question of where ISIS would have acquired such weapons. The second, in the New York Times, detailed
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By Bonnie Baron SAN DIEGO — Linda Hutkin Slade comes from a family with artistic tendencies and has enjoyed playing with fiber arts for close to 20 years. In order to support her fiber arts habit Slade works as a clinical social worker at a local hospital. Over the past four years she has focused much
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JERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced more than $9.6 million dollars in grants to four Israeli institutions. These grants are part of a continuing effort to invest in Israel’s leading institutions and critical initiatives toward the goal of strengthening Israel as a successful and secure nation. Since the Helmsley Charitable Trust began awarding
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — A new poll conducted from October 12-14, shows that a majority of Israeli Jews oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and oppose withdrawing from the Jordan Valley as well as the division of Jerusalem. According to a poll conducted last week by the Shivukim-Panorama
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) In advance of the opening of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night, Oct. 19, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement by Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, which will be featured in the playbill. Following is the full text of the statement: Twenty nine years
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By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (TNA) –The phenomenon of Western Muslim citizens traveling from their home countries in the West to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been widely reported on. Israel is now seeing this phenomenon with its citizens, as there are over 30 Israeli Arab citizens having joined ISIS according to
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Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy EILAT, Israel –While soaking up the sun in Eilat ( 100F. this week), my body was idle but my mind was still ticking over. I had a Damascene revelation, on this ancient road from Cairo to Damascus. The symbolism of Eilat’s location occurred to me. It is at the head of a
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — After forty rigorous years of dancing and teaching ballet, and needing to fill time and space in my life with other activities, I’ve gone back to several I loved even before the immersion in dance. I discovered these initially in kindergarten: painting, drawing, handwork, writing and singing. Recently a
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel’s three week holiday season from Rosh Hashana through Simcha Torah resembles the shorter period in western countries from Christmas through New Years. The western holiday is actually longer than a week, due to pre-Christmas work, school, and bar parties, and time in early January for sobering up. What is common to
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — While visiting cousins in Philadelphia last weekend, I mentioned I was a big fan of Homeland and wondered if they liked it too. They replied affirmatively, but questioned whether counterterrorism was conducted as brutally and unscrupulously as portrayed in the series. By coincidence I had a preview link for
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Lawrence Baron, Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. This is part three of a five-part series, The Seven States of Loss and Healing. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Disbelief Maybe Maybe it’s all a mistake maybe it wasn’t real maybe it was a bad
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