-Eighteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison SPOKANE, Washington – During an all-too-short visit with grandson Shor to this eastern Washington city, I sensed that the civic leadership of Spokane values the city’s diversity and attempts to promote inter-group harmony. From a vantage point for viewing Spokane Falls, for example, Shor and I noticed […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –There are limits of what military might can accomplish. It’s a lesson well known to Americans as well as Israelis. Israel can kill a million Gazans, but if there are a few thousand Muslim fanatics among those left it won’t matter. Fanatics elsewhere will do what they can to provide them
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Larry Wilske, California Congressional candidate and retired Command Master Chief of SEAL Team Seven, issued a statement on Friday, August 8, calling for solidarity in support of Israel. Wilske is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams. He served with distinction on SEAL Teams SDV-1, Three and Seven and oversaw
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) –With its seventh consecutive “Highest Rating” from Charity Navigator, Jewish Family Service has joined the elite company of only 2% of nonprofits nationally who earned this distinction over this length of time. Charity Navigator, America’s premier charity evaluator, awards its 4-star designation to nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated strong fiscal management.
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San Diego CountyBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — Time is marching inexorably on. 6 a.m.: I wish the clock would stop for an hour so that I can stay in bed—it doesn’t, and I get up reluctantly. In the waiting room of the doctor’s office: I wish time would speed up. I wish it would
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This week we have a have guest columnist, my daughter, Margalit Rosenthal. Margalit wrote an excellent column about her recent experience staffing Birthright in Israel during Israel’s war with Hamas. It is reprinted below with her permission. {Margalit Rosenthal works for The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles,
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Middle EastBy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — For 72 hours, the guns, rockets and bombs fell silent, and the people of Gaza and southern Israel finally had a brief respite from the horrific violence of the past month. With the resumption of rocket fire from Gaza at the very moment the cease-fire expired Friday morning, August
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Middle EastATHENS (WJC) – The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, KIS, condemned the bristling anti-Semitism that has washed into the Greek press since the beginning of Israel’s operation “Protective Edge” in Gaza. “We are deeply concerned about the unexpected outburst of historical-like articles, inspired by the age-old traditional racist propaganda, that are purely
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International, Middle EastPoll: Most Israelis satisfied with leadership’s conduct during war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) According to a poll conducted by Israel Hayom and the New Wave Research Institute to sum up the recent fighting, 74 percent of the Jewish public in Israel think that operation Protective Edge should be called a war. An even higher percentage
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC )is calling on world leaders to urgently focus on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq, due to the advances of the ISIS terrorist organization, which aims to wipe out any population it deems heretical. “ISIS barbarity is now a top threat to security and stability
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC) – The international media will have to answer for the intimidation by Hamas of journalists working in Gaza, which has produced a one-sided anti-Israel narrative in the mainstream press, World Jewish Congress spokeswoman E.J. Kessler declared on Thursday, Aug. 7. “The reports from journalists testifying to Hamas intimidation are troubling and call
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)-–The Arthur Szyk Prize for Disruptive Thought and Zionist Art announced it has named Jerusalem-born artist Tomer Peretz winner of the inaugural prize. The Arthur Szyk Prize, which recognizes an artist whose work has the power to ignite conversation on Zionism in 21st century, is co-sponsored by Artists 4 Israel,
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Travel and FoodBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – The 72 hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to end Friday morning at 8 a.m., and Hamas is threatening to renew its rocket fire on Israeli civilian targets at its conclusion. Hamas spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouk stated that “there is no agreement on the extension of the
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Middle EastIDF chief vows ‘stability here for many years to come’ (JNS.org) “Indeed, the summer here is hot. Autumn will follow and the fields will turn green. … There will be stability here for many years to come,” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said Wednesday, referring to the return to normalcy
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