WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Sunday, August 3, issued the following denunciation of Israel: “The United States is appalled by today’s disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which at least ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed. The coordinates of […]
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — Congregant Luz Guadarrama of Temple Beth Shalom baked up a surprise for Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel: a cake shaped to look like a Torah. The Conservative rabbi turns 61 on August 6th. Arlene LaGary, the president of Temple Beth Shalom, was joined by Jorge Bernal in making the
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Donald H. Harrison, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego CountyBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The IDF has begun to partially withdraw its troops from parts of the Gaza Strip. Having completed their specific missions, the forces are coming out of unnecessary areas. The IDF is still continuing to complete its mission to destroy the terror tunnels. The IDF estimates it will complete the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government to end immediately their incendiary statements against Israel, which have led to attacks on the Jewish community. The climate of fear experienced by Venezuela’s Jewish community over the past decade has been heightened still further since
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International, Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The outpouring of love shown to the IDF’s soldiers during Operation ‘Protective Edge’ has become legendary. The fighting soldiers have received countless donations and gifts; visits by Israelis from across Israel; musicians and rock stars have come to entertain; anyone with a helpful profession has donated time and abilities;
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Only the cynics are happy. Friday morning, August 2, everyone was claiming credit for the cease fire. John Kerry and Ban-Ki Moon were claiming primary authorship, and generous to note the contributions of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar. The Palestinians of Gaza and Israelis were touting their accomplishments, and being equally
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
-Fifteenth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Canada – It’s a matter of happy circumstance that Lethbridge is the first Canadian city of moderate size that a traveler from U.S. Interstate 15 will connect with after crossing the U.S.-Canada border. My grandson Shor and I, making a trip from the bottom of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO– In 930 CE, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the city of Tiberias, a scholar, Aaron Ben-Asher, and a scribe, Shlomo Ben-Buya’a, took upon themselves the daunting task of creating the “most perfect copy” of the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible. What they produced is
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Travel and Food
Pam Jenoff, The Winter Guest, Harlequin Books, ISBN 978-0-7783-1596-4, 341 pages, $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The setting: a mountain village outside of Krakow, Poland. The time World War II. Twin sisters of marriageable age are raising their three siblings together. Their father is dead. Their mother, a patient in a mental
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Hamas broke the 3 day cease fire with Israel shortly after it began. Its spokesmen claimed that its fighters inadvertently used a stopwatch instead of a clock to time the cessation of hostilities or that the word “cease” was accidentally deleted from the email informing them of the armistice. *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge some three weeks ago, the streets of American and European cities have been crammed with activists
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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Philanthropists Andrew and Erna Viterbi have offered a matching gift of $1 million to help care for and shelter civilians and soldiers in the south of Israel from the rockets, mortars and tunnel infiltrations from Gaza. Announced on Friday, August 1, by the Jewish Federation of San Diego and to be
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Middle East
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California- In the words of George Eliot, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” What was she telling us? Mary Anne Evans was petitioning women to become their authentic selves and though she penned these words before the turn of the century, they are no
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County