By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “Respect.” A word out of my childhood. We used to sign letters, “Respectfully Yours.” “Respect your elders” was a frequent admonition. What happened to that word? I don’t hear it used very much anymore. I looked it up in the dictionary and found synonyms: consideration, appreciation, […]
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House released a video of President Barack Obama’s Easter/ Passover message delivered on Saturday, April 19. The President said both holidays remind us of our responsibilities to God, and as God’s children, to each other.
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By Ronn Torossian NEW YORK– Only a few miles away from Israel – in Syria – there is a civil war taking place which has killed at least 150,000 people and uprooted more than nine million others. There are reportedly 1 Million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon alone. Churches are being burnt – and people,
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Let’s call it what it is. The US has used its muscle to get Israelis and Palestinians to discussions that neither of them wanted. Both sides speak and deal with one another all the time. It’s part of living side by side, with pockets of one inside the other, and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
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Adventures in SD HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC condemned the firebombing attack on a synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev. The early Saturday morning attack on the empty synagogue comes days after a virulent anti-Semitic leaflet, whose origin remains in question, was distributed in Donetsk. Both anti-Semitic incidents were condemned by Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who
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International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Two members of the Jewish community are seeking election as California Superior Court judges in the June 3 election. Carla Keehn, a federal prosecutor, is opposing Judge Lisa Schall for Office No. 20, while Brad A. Weinreb, a California deputy attorney general, is seeking to prevail in a three-candidate race
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyAbbas reportedly threatens to dismantle Palestinian Authority (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly threatened to dismantle the PA, a move that would potentially dissolve the 1993 Oslo Accords and leave Israel—according to international law—vulnerable to legal action over its construction activities in Judea and Samaria. Abbas told Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper,
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InternationalBy John Kerry WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, I traveled to Rome with President Obama, where I was honored to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. As an altar boy six decades ago, I never imagined that I would find myself crossing the threshold of the Vatican to see the Bishop of Rome. My wife, Teresa,
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The World We Share
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM– For the first time since the beginning of the Passover holiday, the Temple Mount was opened briefly to Jewish visitors and tourists on Sunday, April 20. The site had been closed last week on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday because of violent Palestinian rioting. On Saturday night, April 19, five Arabs carrying tear
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Middle East
BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has signed an $8.5 million agreement with the Israel National Cyber Bureau to develop CyberSpark, which includes a National Cyber Research Center adjacent to BGU’s campus. CyberSpark was conceived as an innovative research and development ecosystem of major multinational corporations, business incubators, BGU researchers, Israel Defense Force
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Interfaith humor is not so much ribald as it is refreshing and inclusive, inviting people of different faiths to smile or chuckle in a friendly way across the aisles that often separate them. President Obama kept it short and sweet recently in speaking to Christian faith leaders at
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Carl Sagan fans old and new have been gazing at their televisions in awe as host Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson’s resurrection of the science epic “Cosmos” takes them on a journey from the Big Bang, to microscopic one-celled organisms, to the ascent of man, to beyond the stars and planets. The
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Science, Medicine, & Education