By Aryeh Savir KIRYAT ARBA, Israel — Sarah Avraham, 20, of Kiryat Arba in Judea, won the Woman’s World Thai-Boxing Championship in Thailand on Thursday, March 20. Officially named Muay Thai, the combat sport is dubbed “the art of eight weapons” because of the use of fists, elbows, knees, and feet. Sarah has previously won the Israeli
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International, Sports & CompetitionsBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — Four days ago we were shocked, dismayed, and saddened to hear that the San Diego Opera will cease operations by the end of this season, namely next month. Many of us heard it in the newspaper and television; some of us received direct e mails from the Opera, but
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — “I didn’t choose the Butterfly Project…it chose me!” Artist and guest speaker Cheryl Rattner Price is referring to the deeply moving and transformational exhibit currently displayed in the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center’s Gotthelf Art Gallery. This show is not only poignant and profound, but also artistically compelling and
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC praised Japanese Prime Minister Abe for visiting the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on Sunday, March 23. “Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the place where Anne Frank and her family hid, where she wrote her diary, until their capture by the Nazis is a strong demonstration of remembrance and solidarity with
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By Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV – One hundred fifty Christian citizens of Israel demonstrated Sunday, March 23, outside the European Union’s delegation in Tel Aviv against the EU’s silence in relation to what they termed “the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East.” The protesters demanded that the EU act on their own cry for
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Middle EastPARIS (Press Release) — AJC is appalled by the violent assault on a Jewish teacher in Paris. The man, who was wearing a kippah, was brutally beaten after he left a kosher restaurant on Thursday evening. The assailants broke his nose, drew a swastika on his chest and reportedly shouted anti-Semitic epithets in French and Arabic.
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This question is based on a question posed to the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. My colleague at work spends most of his time posting to the website, Reddit. He could be posting information about his boss or work environment that could
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Let’s imagine, at least for a brief moment, that at this Sunday’s meeting of the Netanyahu cabinet, the prime minister will announce that he has decided not to insist that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a peace settlement. According to the
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It so happens that recently I read books by or about the above three individuals, all of them Jewish (Proust’s mother was Jewish), all of them great thinkers and/or writers, and all of them (except Proust) living at roughly same period – the first half of the twentieth
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Travel and FoodBy Sean Savage/JNS.org In a throwback to the golden age of cinema, Hollywood has declared 2014 the “Year of the Bible.” From Ridley Scott’s Exodus starring Christian Bale as Moses, to Russell Crowe playing Noah, Hollywood is gambling on new innovations in technology and star power to revisit some of the most popular stories
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Are the emperors wearing any clothes? We can ask the question about those leading the US, Israel, Palestine, and no doubt several other places. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon reached the headlines again for what ranking Americans perceived as insulting remarks about the weakness of the United States shown in dealing
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — Every year for times immemorial one of the features of a Seder is the parting of the seas, when the Children of Israel left Egypt. One year our Seder also featured the seas, but with a difference. We were on a cruise on the Queen Mary 2, sailing from Melbourne,
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Editor’s Note: Jennifer Felicia Abadi travels whenever possible, especially to Israel and its surrounding countries, studying foods, languages, and cultures. A Fistful of Lentils is her recipe book, based upon her Syrian Jewish heritage. Recipe: Ka’ik ib’Fis’dok (Flourless Pistachio Cookies) This dessert is perfect for Passover since there is no flour in the recipe and the
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