By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Less than 20 000 Jews came on aliyah last year, mostly from Europe and the United States. Some 70 000 illegal immigrants are said to be currently in Israel, mostly from Africa. Whereas the Jewish Agency for Israel through its various affiliates is making valiant efforts to bring more Jews to […]
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Middle EastBy Anav Silverman EILAT, Israel — In January 1996, a Muslim baby born in northern Jordan was given the name Yitzhak Rabin. The mother and father, who were supporters of peace with Israel, had wanted to honor the slain Israeli leader’s role in the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty with King Hussein of Jordan in 1994. It
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A dog and pony show is a performance by politicians, inspired by what happens in a circus. It involves actors speaking predictable lines, talking past one another rather than responding to one another, and finishing the performance with no expectation of anything beyond polite applause. That’s what it looked like
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Lihi Lapid, Woman of Valor, Geffen Publishing House, (c) 2013, ISBN 9789652296405 , 202 pages By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is a combination novel and confession by Lihi Lapid concerning her own married life and that of a fictional domestic princess, both of whom eventually feel overwhelmed by the self-imposed obligations of being
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Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis joined County Supervisor Dave Roberts and Child Welfare Services Director, Debra Zanders-Willis to help Boy Scout Shane Uribe widen his Eagle Scout service project of providing new duffel bags to foster youth for their belongings. The bags are filled with basic necessities
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The World We ShareBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–John Kerry seems to be involved in some sort of manic quixotic obsession with the Israel/Palestinian issue, to the detriment of the rest of the world’s problems. Sometimes the more one talks through problems, the more the different viewpoints become apparent, and this only makes matters worse. The Israel/Palestine problem is a
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International, Lloyd Levy
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – On January 12, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County will host more than 1,000 women philanthropists for a lunch event with world famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westhiemer at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. OPTIONS, celebrating its 21st year, is the centerpiece of the Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy campaign, serving
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San Diego Calendar
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday voiced “concern and disappointment” with the way the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is questioning the status of prominent and long-established Orthodox rabbis and their ability to perform marriages according to Jewish law. The League specifically cited the case of Rabbi Avi Weiss, a
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Jahi McMath’s parents won their law suit to transfer their daughter from the hospital that declared her brain dead and planned to terminate her life-support systems to another hospital which has agreed to keep her alive. The McMaths are confident their insurance will cover the additional expenses because it is no
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934), recognized as the father of modern Hebrew poetry, will be brought to life by local Jewish educator and scholar, Gabriella Hartstein Labson at 7 p.m., Tuesday evening, January 21, in the Astor Judaica Library, Lawrence Family JCC at Executive Drive and Genesee in La Jolla.
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Travel and Food
LONDON (WJC) — French soccer player Nicolas Anelka has come under fire for celebrating a goal last week by flashing the so-called ‘quenelle’ salute popularized by the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné Mbala-Mbala. Anelka made the controversial gesture after scoring the first of two goals for his West Bromwich Albion team against West Ham United in
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Jewish Religion
By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org The weapons used by Palestinian terrorists against Jews are well known: suicide bombs, like the one that killed my daughter Alisa in 1995; knives, like the ones used to slaughter the Fogel family in Itamar two years ago; rifles, like the one used in the sniper shooting of the infant Shalhevet
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Travel and FoodNew York Post under fire for coverage on murder of Brooklyn Jewish businessman (JNS.org) Members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community and local politicians on Monday protested a controversial New York Post cover that featured a photo of Menachem Stark, an Orthodox Jewish businessman whose smoldering body was found in a Long Island dumpster on Sunday, accompanied by the
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International
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Friends of the IDF (FIDF) San Diego Chapter will host its 4th Annual Gala Appreciation Evening on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego. Over 650 prominent lay leaders and FIDF supporters from across the San Diego area are expected to attend the event and
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