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Foreign journalists denounce Gaza’s press tactics

August 11, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Foreign Press Association in Israel including almost 500 members from all parts of the media from 32 countries, issued a statement protesting “in the strongest terms the blatant, incessant, forceful and unorthodox methods employed by the Hamas authorities and their representatives against visiting international journalists in Gaza over the past month.”

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International, Middle East

Feds provided $1.02 m to help homeless vets

August 11, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As part of $300 million in grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) announced that $1.02 million would go to fight homelessness among veterans in San Diego. Vietnam Veterans of San Diego will be the recipient of the VA grant. “I have seen first

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Law would crack down on gangs’ human trafficking

August 11, 2014

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) – San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis joined Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego) on Monday, Aug. 11, to urge passage of a bill to treat human trafficking crimes committed by gang members with the same severity as 33 other gang offenses and another measure

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San Diego County, USA

Hillary Clinton: Anti- Semitism motivates Israel critics

August 11, 2014

NEW YORK (WJC) –Former American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is identifying anti-Semitism as an important motivation for the international criticism of Israel’s incursion in Gaza, according to a new interview. “It is striking … that you have more than 170,000 people dead in Syria. … You have Russia massing battalions—Russia, that actually annexed

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Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: August 11, 2014

August 11, 2014

Egypt’s El-Sisi and Saudi King Abdullah meet in Jeddah (JNS.org) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a royal palace in Jeddah on Sunday. The two leaders of the Arab world’s most populous and wealthy states met to discuss both regional and international issues, including the conflict in Gaza and

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Travel and Food

Money Maven: 15- vs. 30- year mortgages

August 11, 2014

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Dear Money Maven: Q: My wife and I are buying our first house. It’s a bit of a financial stretch for us, so we’d like to get the lowest interest rate possible. We’re borrowing $300,000 and have a choice between a 30-year fixed mortgage at 4% or a 15-year

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Sheryl Rowling

Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace

August 11, 2014

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Hamas resumed rocketing Israel on Friday, August 8, one surety was that Israel’s office of “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)” [COGAT] would continue operating as it has through gruesome acts of terror against Jews, “intifadas,” rocket attacks and kidnappings through tunnels.

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Westward- bound Jews often stopped at The Dalles

August 11, 2014

s -Nineteenth in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison THE DALLES, Oregon — Today, there are few Jews living in this city, but it is not surprising that at one point in its history, Jewish merchants found it a very attractive place to do business. “The Dalles” was given its name by French Canadian

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA

Performing arts and religion: helping each other

August 10, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Over the weekend, I attended a recital featuring an organist, two trumpet players, and a soprano at the First Church of Christ Scientist in this San Diego suburb, allowing me to look around one of the many historic buildings in this metropolitan area designed by San Diego architect

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

Ceasefires play into Hamas’s hands

August 10, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — I began my previous article with the statement that “Operation Protective Edge appears to be winding down… .” So I’m not completely surprised that the three-day ceasefire was just one of several that Hamas has used to regroup without fear of Israeli interference. The situation Prime Minister Bibi

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Zeidan supports Hamas attacks on Israel

August 10, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — In a TV interview on the Lebanese Mayadeen TV channel, Muhammad Zeidan, the recently resigned head of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Israel and an Israeli citizen, came out in support of Hamas, saying: “The missiles fired from Gaza constitute self-defense,” according to MEMRI’s (Middle East Media

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Middle East

U.S. tries to clean up its Middle East messes

August 10, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One should applaud, perhaps with one hand, the wisdom shown by Barack Obama in his efforts to withdraw the United States from active involvement in the Middle East. At the same time, we should note that he is at least partly responsible for the present chaos. That Nobel Peace Prize

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

The Wandering Review: ‘Alive Inside’

August 10, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — If you are a senior citizen or a child or grandchild of a senior citizen, you probably know or will know someone in the future coping with Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed, as the baby boomers start entering the ranks of the septuagenarians, the numbers of Americans suffering from dementia will

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Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

Mossad’s missions make for thrilling reading

August 10, 2014

The Greatest Missions of the Mossad by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 1965, Ezer Weizman was Chief of the Israeli Air Force and Meir Amit was Head of the Mossad (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations). The USSR had recently begun flying its newest MIG-21 fighter. This plane

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Travel and Food

Foreign journalists denounce Gaza’s press tactics

Feds provided $1.02 m to help homeless vets

Law would crack down on gangs’ human trafficking

Hillary Clinton: Anti- Semitism motivates Israel critics

JNS news briefs: August 11, 2014

Money Maven: 15- vs. 30- year mortgages

Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace

Westward- bound Jews often stopped at The Dalles

Performing arts and religion: helping each other

Ceasefires play into Hamas’s hands

Zeidan supports Hamas attacks on Israel

U.S. tries to clean up its Middle East messes

The Wandering Review: ‘Alive Inside’

Mossad’s missions make for thrilling reading

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