NEW YORK — The resignation of Takis Baltakos, chief of staff to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, was entirely warranted, following the revelation of his meeting with a senior official of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. “What Mr. Baltakos did is an affront to Prime Minister Samaras and to the vast majority of the Greek people,” said
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InternationalBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–The dire state of the Kerry Peace effort was just so predictable. How did he have the arrogance and vanity to think that he can solve a problem that has eluded the whole world for over 100 years? The “process” became the objective, and not the real needs of both sides. One
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A few days ago, something of a deal was in the offing. It would allow for the continuation of peace talks (not peace itself, alas) between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and include the release of more prisoners convicted of terrorism in Israel, and perhaps even Jonathan Pollard after 29
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– John Kerry’s peace process is dying. Or it was born dead, despite having parents who praised its prospects. The fault is not Israel’s, nor Palestine’s, but John Kerry’s. Or maybe Barack Obama’s, due to his appointing a visionary for a job that is supposed to be serious. Kerry’s various ideas join
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Richard Crawford, San Diego Yesterday; American Chronicles: A History Press Series, 2013, ISBN 9781609499761, 158 pages, cover price $16.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Anyone who has ever seriously researched San Diego history sooner or later has the pleasure of meeting Richard Crawford, long-time special collections supervisor in the California Room of San Diego’s Central
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO -Now that the Supreme Court has concluded that money is free speech and there should not be limits on how much money corporations and individuals donate to political campaigns, congressional representatives from both parties are posting their votes on specific bills on EBay and selling them to the highest bidder.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When we read novels or short fiction in any language, we read to understand the story. We read to learn something new, and hopefully to get some kind of emotional uplift through the words on the page and the skills of the storyteller. So how to tell the
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The World We Share
By Hen Mazzig/JNS.org On March 31, I attended a disturbing lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was co-sponsored by St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and J Street U. The speaker, a former Israeli soldier with the group “Breaking the Silence” (BtS), misrepresented and demonized the Israel Defense Forces, Israel, and Israeli policy. BtS is known
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Despite months of relentless and very public diplomacy it looks as though John Kerry is withdrawing from the negotiations (I refuse to call it a “Peace Process”) failing to have achieved an agreement between Israel and the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (I refuse to call them
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Middle East, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, (TICO), now celebrating its 40th year, has begun this milestone season by programming two outstanding concerts. The first, in mid-November, The Glory of Hungarian Music, included Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, #5 and #6, Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #3, Berlioz’ Rakotzy March and Dohnanyi’s Variations
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past week, I watched the new movie Noah with considerable interest. The newest book of my Genesis commentary deals largely with the story of Noah and the moral questions raised by the Noah narrative. Naturally, whether a person writes a script or a commentary on a biblical story,
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Enrico Lamet, A Gift From the Enemy: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy; 2013 revision of 2007 Syracuse University Press , ISBN-12: 9781493646029, 472 pages in proof, including a glossary. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book is a love story, written by a man reflecting on his childhood as an Austrian Jewish
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–I just noticed I am growing older. There is a French expression: “coup de vieux” which means “a hit of old.” What this means is that we tend to plateau for quite a while, nothing seems to change much, and then suddenly within a day or so we get
When did it happen? I may be getting old! Read More »
Natasha Josefowitz, The World We Share