By Laurie Baron This is the first anniversary of my writing this column. Since I am not being inundated by fan mail, I’ve compiled a list of quips from each month of the past year to remind subscribers to the San Diego Jewish World why they read my column or ignore it. * August […]
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Political analysis is best with moderation. Objectivity is not in the cards, insofar as information is partial and bound to be partisan. It helps to recognize differences in perspective. Extreme partisanship might win applause in some circles, but invites ridicule in others. Also important is to recognize sources of power,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO– It has been ten years since Zach Braff’s directorial debut, the critically acclaimed Garden State. In the interim he has acted in a number of feature films and televisions series, becoming best known for his role as J.D. on the television sitcom Scrubs. When his brother Adam and he pitched
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Travel and FoodBy Michael Sonduck SAN DIEGO — War is awful. It is terrifying. Innocent people are killed. The trauma inflicted on the soldiers, civilians, and children is worse than tragic, worse than deplorable. The ongoing violence in Gaza is no different; but this conflict brings an unprecedented real-time visual to the violence. Every minute of every
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Middle EastBy Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–Samuel Huntington correctly defined the bloody conflicts of our time as a “clash of civilizations.” But all “clashes” are not equal: there are the intra-Arab and intra-Muslim clashes and there are clashes where one side is a Western Democracy. What distinguishes between them is that the former’s actions and exactions, however cruel
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry announce that the United Nations Representative in Jerusalem, Special Coordinator Robert Serry, has received assurances that all parties have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. This humanitarian cease-fire will commence at 8 am local time on Friday, August 1,
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Rabbi Michael Berk, who was traveling in Israel with an AIPAC delegation at the time of the Gaza War outbreak, will discuss his observations and experiences during a dinner meeting of Congregation Beth Israel’s Men’s Club, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wedneday, Aug. 20, at the congregation’s campus at 9001 Towne
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)—During the winter of 1944, the Nazis blocked food supplies to the western Netherlands, creating a period of widespread famine and devastation. The impact of starvation on expectant mothers produced one of the first known epigenetic “experiments” — changes resulting from external rather than genetic influences — which suggested that the body’s
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The IDF is continued on Thursday, July 31, to dismantle the terror tunnels in Gaza, while deepening its hold on the Gaza Strip. For the first time in the operation the IDF entered the Jabaliya refugee camp. Israel has reportedly stepped up its military strikes on Hamas targets as
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Middle EastPM: Israel will destroy Hamas terror tunnels ‘with or without’ cease-fire (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces is determined to destroy Hamas’s network of terror tunnels in Gaza “with or without a cease-fire,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at an emergency cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv. “Using their tunnel capability, Hamas could have kidnapped and
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Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — What could be a greater pleasure than another visit to a favorite destination? It is to be there with someone who is there for the first time. This was the joyous occasion when we visited New York City together with our recently Bar-Mitzvah’d grandson, Zander. This gave us the
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USANature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart, Norton & Co., New York; ISBN 978-0-393-06454-4 ©2014, $28.95, p. 435, plus Notes and Index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — When I first read the title of Matthew Stewart’s newest book, Nature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, I
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Fred Reiss, EdD, USABy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced the Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act (S.O.S. Campus Act), legislation that would require colleges and universities to establish an independent, on-campus advocate to support survivors of sexual assault. “Survivors of sexual assault deserve an advocate who
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