By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Since New Jersey Democrats remain skeptical of the Bridgegate report authored by lawyers Chris Christie appointed, the Governor may appoint another group of investigators who won’t find anything that implicates him in the scandal. He has asked the search team at Malaysia Airlines to look into the matter. * President
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– JDate.com has launched its second annual Haggadah, available for the first time as a free download on iBooks. Why is this Haggadah different from all other Haggadahs? The interactive Haggadah (iHaggadah), out in time for Passover (April 14 to April 22), will bring humor and originality to the Seder, giving the
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Travel and FoodBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel –As we approach the Jewish festival of Passover and the night that is “different from all other nights” it is appropriate that there is much in the recent news that positively distinguishes the Jewish State from the norm. In medical news, Israelis have been developing some unique treatments and devices
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastAbbas signs applications for 15 international bodies, violating terms of peace talks (JNS.org) In the midst of efforts to reach a deal that would extend the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations into 2015, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas violated the agreed-upon terms of the negotiations by signing applications for PA membership in 15 international agencies
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InternationalSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– StandWithUs-San Diego is calling on the community to join in protest against San Diego State University offering course credit to students to attend a lecture by anti-Israel extremist Richard Falk on April 7. Falk speaks at SDSU as part of the Holster Series presented Mondays by Professor Jonathan Graubart Ph.D/JD from 4-6:30pm.
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–If you want to be Jewish, you need a high tolerance for uncertainty. It’s an essential part of coping with ourselves and the goyim. There are periods of relative stability, and others of intense uncertainty. In recent days, the Israeli cousins have been at the intense end of the spectrum. We had
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been designated by Jimbo’s…Naturally! as the beneficiary of its annual Customer Appreciation Sale. On April 12, Jimbo’s will donate 5% of the entire day’s sales to JFS. Each customer may also donate 5% of his/her individual purchase to JFS at the check
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San Diego CountyThe Devil That Never Dies, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; New York: Little, Brown and Company, 201 By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Former professor Daniel Jonah Goldhagen of Harvard University wrote a stinging and, most likely, controversial book on the rise of global anti-Semitism. His extensive analysis of speeches, newspapers, radio stations, statements by
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Jewish HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release) –AJC denounced Palestinian Authority President Abbas’s announcement that he will seek membership for Palestine in another 15 international organizations. “If the Palestinian leadership wants to keep a two-state prospect viable, internationalizing the conflict at this sensitive moment is totally counter-productive,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “The only path to sustainable
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman KFAR CHABAD, Israel (TNA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the time to bake some Passover matzah for his first time when he visited a matzah bakery in Kfar Chabad ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday on Tuesday, April 1. Local Chabad leaders and rabbis briefed Prime Minister Netanyahu on the preparations to hold
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)-The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19 percent in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking one of the lowest levels of incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League since it started keeping records in 1979. ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released today, reported a
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Jewish Religion, USA
SAN DIEGO –When words are transliterated from one alphabet to another, a variety of spellings occur — for example “Chanukah” and “Hannukah.” While the most common translation for the Hebrew word for “the land” is “eretz,” this spelling too works. And so our Jewish license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets one more notch on her
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), along with Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York), Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York), and Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), led a bipartisan group of 84 House members in a request to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development for $2 million for the U.S.–Israel Energy Cooperation Program in the
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was lauded Tuesday, April 1, by members of the Jewish Community Center Association of North America for legislation that has benefitted Jews and other minorities in America. A presentation by former recipient Ronald L. Leibow of
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Donald H. Harrison