By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)- The Shabak, Israel’s internal security service, last week lifted a gag order on the arrest of a senior Hamas terrorist in April 2014, and provided details on the results of his interrogation. Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Tuama revealed that Hamas has been the force behind recent outbreaks of violence on the
NEW YORK (Press Release) — More than 80 Jews from around New York who are planning to make Aliyah in the coming months marched alongside the NefeshB’Nefesh float in this year’s Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City on Sunday, June 1. The prospective Olim included families and their children, young professionals and retirees. The parade’s 50th
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Middle East, USABy Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — Here is the most simple book review of the new book, Rebbe: The Life And Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, The Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History: Read it and you will become a better person. From reading this book, one can better understand how Rabbi Schneerson had a
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Travel and FoodIn Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World by Ruth Sidransky By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In a lifetime of reading, a few special books have made an indelible impression upon me and this is certainly one of them. It took its place in my heart when I read it in 1990 and
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Travel and FoodBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — As Americans at many different income levels enjoy more affluent times, there’s something many parents covet more than anything else, and it’s the one thing money can’t buy: good kids…what we would call a mentch…and what do we want from our children? Yiddishe Nachas…it is the most
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Snakes Alive! The setting was a club for retired people in one of Jerusalem’s more prosperous and prestigious neighbourhoods. Most of its members are ladies of a certain age or more, well-dressed, well-coiffed and well-preserved, with a sprinkling of elderly gents. They spend their spare time engaging in activities which
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & EducationLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – A diverse assortment of used books will be available during the Annual Used Book Sale to benefit the Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library, which will be held from June 11-15 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037. There will
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Democracy is an icon of those who aspire to the best of political and civil rights. Like other icons, however, it is tricky to sort out the symbol from the realities. Virtually all countries describe themselves as democracies, but few measure up. Political scientists who concern themselves with the nature
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By Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org Religion and language interact in curious ways. Language, as the modern theorists have understood it, is in essence a culturally bounded system by which we decide and establish that one thing is not another thing. Language creates mental categories of difference that we typically take for granted; for example, that a chair
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Jewish Religion
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org The history of the knish represents more than just the lineage of a fried, dumpling-like food. It demonstrates the often-central role of food in communities and cultural legacies. Laura Silver knows that all too well. She has consumed knishes on three different continents, and her exhaustive research on the iconic potato treat
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By Sean Savage/JNS.org Since the 2011 revolution that ousted longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the Arab world’s most populous country has faced an uncertain future. Briefly ruled by the long-repressed Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt was retaken by its dominant military in response to widespread dissatisfaction with the rule of president Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood member.
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By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS) — Members of Reform and Conservative synagogues have signed on to recent full-page advertisements in Jewish newspapers around the country, blasting their denomination’s leaders for supporting the (eventually failed) bid of the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby J Street to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Defense Attorney Dan Greene is defending the former administrator of the Army Navy Academy in Carlsbad against charges of child molestation. In the case which has attracted considerable publicity, Greene pleads for the public to withhold judgment about the charges against Jeffrey Barton “I’m telling you they are not true,” Greene
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By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – As Fred Schenk, president of the San Diego County Fair board, tells the story, he was driving in November 2012 to his law offices in San Diego, when the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun” came on the radio, and he started singing along. The thought struck
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Donald H. Harrison