By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The indiscreet and disparaging comments about John Kerry’s endeavor to bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and about Kerry as a person, by Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s minister of defense, did a lot of damage to US-Israel relations. It was tellingly reflected in the angry reactions from the White House and from […]
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Middle EastPress Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, August 9, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman The diversity of entertainment in San Diego during the summer months is enough to satisfy everyone. For sheer spectacle there is “The California Story,” the colorful pageant being played in Balboa Stadium. Classical music lovers may attend the large outdoor symphony
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By Mimi Pollack VISTA, California—Liz Palika has the right characteristics for a good dog trainer. She is firm and pragmatic, with a heart of gold. Together with the affable Kate Abbott, and Petra Burke, Palika co-owns Kindred Spirits which she started. Kindred Spirits, in this northern San Diego County city, offers a variety of dog
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareSAN DIEGO–San Diego City Councilmember Marti Emerald, the only member of the Jewish community on the City Council, said Wednesday, Jan. 15., that there is “bad news for consumers in the San Diego community of City Heights.” The neighborhoods largest grocery store, Albertsons at University and Fairmount Avenue, is closing its doors February 20th. Emerald
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San Diego County
WASHINGTON (SDJW) — U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) on Wednesday, Jan. 15, called on her colleagues to let the Obama administration continue on course in its nuclear negotiations with Iran, and not to adopt legislation that provides for new sanctions should those negotiations fail. Her speech was promptly criticized by the Republican Jewish Coalition as
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USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Knesset of Israel held its first ever Tu’Bshvat Seder on Wednesday, Jan. 15. It was hosted by the Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein. The seder, which replicates the four cups of wine of the Passover Seder and includes traditional readings associated with land and produce, was conducted jointly by
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Jewish Religion
NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) continues to be deeply concerned about Iran’s motives in negotiations with the U.S. and five other world powers over its nuclear program. Ahead of Monday’s start date for the six-month interim agreement between Iran and the P5+1, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared in a tweet that “the
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Middle East
PARIS (WJC) European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said that he was appalled by the lack of reaction by the authorities to recent anti-Semitic incidents in European soccer, after a municipal prosecutor in the Polish city of Poznan concluded that chants by soccer fans which made reference to Jews going to the Auschwitz gas chambers
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International
NEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 15, decried the beating of an Israeli-born Hebrew teacher in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in what local Jewish leaders say was an anti-Semitic incident. World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer called the beating “a vicious act that must not go unpunished,” and said that
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InternationalYa’alon apologizes for criticism of Kerry after U.S. rebuke (JNS.org) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon apologized for remarks published by Yedioth Ahronoth that called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations “obsessive” and “messianic.” “The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if
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International
By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who came to prominence after World War II as a Nazi hunter. With the aid of the Israeli, Austrian and West German governments he helped capture nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Lvov (in
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis’ wrestling with the issue of illegal immigrants is no less complicated, and maybe a bit more so than in other developed countries. As the one developed country with a land border with Africa, Israel is bound to have a problem. No matter how difficult life may be here, there
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a remarkable summary of the Holocaust years, as seen through the compassionate eyes of survivor Lou Dunst. In My Bargain With God, Kamin follows Dunst’s journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee, the latter concentration camp being where Dunst came within
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is understanding of Israeli Defense Minister and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, General Moshe Ya’alon stating that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is ignoring the realities of continuing Palestinian opposition to Israel’s existence. General Ya’alon refuted Secretary Kerry’s insistence on the
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