SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Beth Israel of San Diego named Jordana “Jordie” Gerson as its new assistant rabbi. She brings to Beth Israel a unique blend of traditional rabbinic work within congregations as well as energy and creative ideas on ways to engage with young adults. Gerson recently completed a year as the Visiting Rabbinic
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Temple Emanu-El has appointed Shiri Haines as its new executive director. Haines, who grew up in San Diego and Orange County, spent time in the Navy and in business before taking her first synagogue job ten years ago. At Adath Emanu-El in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, she served as an administrative assistant,
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA) — The Israeli cabinet on Thursday, Aug. 21, approved the mobilization of 10,000 IDF reservists, following two days of a continuous barrage of rocket fire by Hamas. The terror group broke the latest ceasefire on Tuesday, Aug. 19, with a salvo of medium-range rockets on Be’er Sheva, followed by dozens
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a reason the American military asks of its civilian commanders, “Don’t tell us what to do, tell us what you want done.” Giving the military an executable military mission to accomplish is the most important responsibility of civilian command. A strategic plan helps the military respond
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
HAIFA (Press Release) –A copper awl, the oldest metal object found to date in the Middle East, was discovered during the excavations at Tel Tsaf, according to a recent study published by researchers from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and the Department of archaeology at the University of Haifa , in conjunction with researchers from
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — In a pre-dawn airstrike, three top Hamas commanders were killed by an Israeli strike on a four-story building near Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, August 21. The three senior Hamas leaders are responsible for dozens of deadly terrorist attacks including the 2006 kidnapping
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Middle EastBy Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–While Hamas intensifies its latest wave of rocket fire, Israel continues its humanitarian commitment to Gaza, agreeing to Turkish requests to transfer another group of Gazans wounded in recent fighting. The level of daily rocket fire has swelled in recent days to levels unseen since Israel’s August 3 ground pullout, with
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHamas threat against Ben Gurion Airport proves hollow as fighting resumes (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) With the resumption of fighting in Gaza, Hamas on Wednesday returned to issuing threats—this time, against foreign airlines flying in and out of Ben Gurion International Airport. “We are warning international airlines and press them to stop flying into Ben
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Travel and Food
By Ze’ev Ben Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA) — The current rain of rocket fire from Gaza continues unabated throughout Wednesday afternoon, August 20, with over 170 rockets launched into Israel by Hamas since the terror group broke the last ceasefire on Tuesday. A spell of relative quiet was ruptured by Tuerday’s volley of rockets aimed at
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement Wednesday on the videotaped beheading of American journalist James Foley by an ISIL terrorist. James Foley went to the darkest of places to shine the light of truth. Nothing could stop him from sharing with the world the reality of what
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Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood has a calendar full of movie and TV awards shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, and with a dozen other awards on tap as well. There’s even the Razzies — The Golden Raspberry Awards– for the worst movies in each year’s hefty bag of cinema
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The World We Share
NEW YORK (Press Release) — BBYO, formerly B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, has announced that Walter Solomon of Lexington, Kentucky, has been elected Chair of BBYO’s International Board of Directors. Vice President and Chief Growth Officer for Ashland Inc., a Fortune 500 global specialty chemicals company, Solomon succeeds Estee Portnoy of Bethesda, Maryland. “Walter is not
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are seeing, once again, the problems in dealing with amorphous organizations that are not states, but have the means to make others miserable. The classic conception of a state is a body that possesses a monopoly of force, and controls what happens in its name and within its borders.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM– Since Tuesday night, August 19, Hamas rockets have struck throughout southern Israel, with one directly hitting a home in Ashkelon Wednesday and a shopping mall Tuesday The armed Abdul Qader Husseini Brigades of the Fatah movement to which the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas belongs, claimed responsibility for two rocket attacks
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Middle East