By Giora Bar-Sakai TEL AVIV –Spring is my favorite season: the weather turns warmer, flowers are blooming all around, the days are already longer and the sunsets are simply unbelievable. And one of the most vivid places to enjoy the spring is my city: Tel Aviv. Please allow me to share with you the top
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Middle East, Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–El Al Airlines has announced that during the Passover season, some of the special holiday dishes that will be served on the New York (JFK/Newark) route include sweet and sour chicken with a trio of roasted potatoes, braised beef short ribs with pomegranate and silan, spicy matbucha salad, caramelized onions and vegetables
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, candidate for the United States Congress, will be the featured speaker at a dinner forum of the Men’s Club of Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, at the congregation, 9001 Towne Center Drive. DeMaio, a Republican, will discuss the plans and goals that
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San Diego Calendar
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass roots organization of over 30,000 academic members based in Philadelphia, expressed its great concern over recent events at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. Controversy erupted there after an “International Studies 110” class (IS) traveled over Spring break to Israel to study water policy. The IS
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Is a picture worth only a thousand words? According to Dr. Carmit Katz of Tel Aviv University’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work, illustrations by children can be a critical tool in forensic investigations of child abuse. Dr. Katz’s study, published in Child Abuse and Neglect, compared the results when
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — In the kitchen of Ahuva Guterman, a Gur Hassid who lives in Mea She’arim, stands an unlikely group of people – a Christian from Texas, a Muslim Arab from the Mount of Olives and a Christian Arab from Jerusalem. Even more unusual is that the group is learning how
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Middle East
NEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress welcomed a statement by the Polish Parliament, the Sejm, saying that kosher slaughter of animals is permitted in Poland if performed for the needs of Jewish communities. Last July, the Sejm had voted against a government proposal that would have granted a general exemption for kosher and
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International, Jewish Religion
JERUSALEM (TNA) — Mayor Nir Barkat is currently conducting an official visit to the United States, his office here has reported. During his visit in Washington he met on Tuesday with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Republican members of Congress Peter Roskam of Illinois, Susan Brooks of Indiana and Edward Royce of California. Royce chairs the
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Middle East, USAFatwa, what fatwa? (JNS.org) The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) says U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised a nonexistent fatwa by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on banning nuclear weapons. In a recent interview with Voice of America, Kerry said, “I show a lot of respect for this fatwa as it
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Many evangelicals are said to be Zionists for theological reasons: they believe that if all Jews will come together in the Land of Israel, they’ll see the light, Jesus’ second coming will become a reality, and the world will be redeemed. Abbas Zaki, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs of San Diego told of four Jewish institutions they had a hand in building—and also disclosed a detour that happened along the way. The couple—who met at Cornell University and later migrated to San Diego where Irwin went on to co-found the large digital communications
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Donald H. HarrisonEditor’s Note: From time to time San Diego Jewish World runs stories about the doings of our elected officials, who are Jewish. Among such officeholders is San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis. SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced Wednesday, April 1, that the Environmental Protection Unit, working with 31
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San Diego County, The World We ShareBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– According to a new study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Amsterdam, oxytocin caused participants to lie more to benefit their groups, and to do so more quickly and without expectation of reciprocal dishonesty from their group. Oxytocin is a hormone the body naturally
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Aboard the retired Air Craft Carrier USS Midway, a new Torah was presented Tuesday evening, April 1, by the Jewish community of San Diego to the JWB, previously called the Jewish Welfare Board, for use by Jewish chaplains. Carried under a chuppah by San Diego philanthropist Gary Jacobs, the Torah a few hours before had its
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Jewish Religion, USA