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 CountyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –I saw the article in one of the glossy weekend supplements that comes with the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ which I try to read while I’m on vacation in France. The photography is beautiful, the articles intelligent, and it’s good for my French (I read it with the aid of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Maimonides raises a relevant question about the nature of repentance in his famous halachic tract, The Laws of Penitence, “How do we know whether a person has truly achieved repentance? If a person finds himself in the same situation where he now has the ability to
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East
By Yael Rein WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following a 2,000 year history in the city, the last Christians left Mosul this week according to reports from local observers. The exodus comes as Islamic State (IS) militants, who captured Mosul last month, announced they would impose Sharia law in the city The group began painting the letter
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Middle East
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)–Attorney and philanthropist Murray H. Shusterman will provide $1 million in urgently needed funding to enhance campus safety at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel against the back drop of round the clock rocket attacks. The new Murray H. Shusterman Gate will protect security staff, students and visitors entering BGU’s
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK (Press Releases) — World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Friday, August 1, condemned in the strongest possible terms the apparent kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip and urged Jews worldwide to pray for his safe return. The IDF suspects Second Lt. Hadar Goldin of Kfar Saba was seized
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Middle East, USA