By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A sizable majority of American Jews support Israel. With respect to those who do and don’t, one of the stronger explanations is affiliation with a temple or synagogue. Affiliated Jews are more likely to support Israel, and the Orthodox stand out as more supportive than those in other congregations. No
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Chapter 16 of the memoir, Once Upon a Country, by the distinguished Palestinian public intellectual, spokesman, activist, philosopher and current president of Al Quds University Sari Nusseibeh is called, “Annex Us!” It tells how he rattled Israelis and confused Palestinians by proposing that Israel annex the West Bank and Gaza.
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Cultural affairs journalist Marion Yvonne Greenberg, 82, died February 11 at Emeritus in the Carmel Valley neighborhood Born to Paul and Friedel Blumenthal (Haimann) in Mexico City on August 20, 1931, she graduated from the American School in San Antonio,Texas in 1948. Fluent in Spanish and English, she graduated from The
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San Diego County–Developing News Story– EILAT, Israel –Across the border in Taba, Egypt, a tourist bus exploded en route to Israel on Sunday, Feb. 16. Initial reports indicate that five people were killed, including the bus driver and four South Korean tourists who had gone to see Saint Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. Most of the
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Travel and Food
BERLIN (Press Release)– AJC condemned as a blow against artistic freedom the Berlinale decision to award British film director Ken Loach “The Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement Award.” The Berlinale, the second largest film festival in Europe after Cannes, is co-sponsored by the German government. “It is a disgrace that a prominent German film
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By Suzanne Pollak Senior Writer. Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — The just departed executive director of Adas Israel Congregation has admitted to intentionally stealing at least $390,000, deceptive record keeping and illegal transferring of funds from a California synagogue during the time he was executive director there. Eric S. Levine, who was asked to
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San Diego CountyJERUSALEM–The President of the EU Parliament, Martin Schulz, came to Israel and addressed the Knesset in what was mostly a ceremonial occasion to demonstrate his credentials as a friend of Israel and an opponent of boycotts. But one poorly crafted sentence brought forth an uproar. It didn’t help that he was speaking in German. There
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
SAN DIEGO–Here’s a license plate that makes us think of matzoh, charoset, and hiding the afikomen. Melanie Rubin, SDJW’s license-plate super sleuth, found this one. As a child, no doubt, she was the first one to find the afikomen too!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO — Just in case anyone isn’t familiar with the argot, adding “ela” to almost any name is an affectionate way for a friend or an older relative to say “oooh, you’re such a cutey, I could pinch your cheeks, such a beautiful punim you have.” It is not recommended, however, when addressing Latin
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
NEW YORK (Press Release)–A rabbi, educator and scholar who has led interreligious efforts on behalf of the Reform Judaism movement and has spearheaded Catholic-Jewish dialogue in Chicago has been appointed the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Director of Interfaith Affairs. Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, Ph.D., who most recently served as a Senior Advisor on Interreligious Affairs for
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California—The senior pastor whose mega-church includes architectural homages to the Holy Land recently was joined in marriage by a Christian Zionist leader from the San Francisco area with ties to the family of Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler. Now, the Rev. Jim Garlow and his bride, Rosemary Schindler Garlow, are
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Donald H. Harrison72% of Israelis want public, not MKs, to elect president (JNS.org) With Israel’s upcoming presidential election poised to have the highest-ever number of candidates, a survey conducted for Israel Hayom by the New Wave Research Institute found that 72 percent of Jewish Israelis favor holding a direct public vote for president over the current election
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Thanks to Martin Schulz, president of the European parliament, and Naftali Bennett, Israeli cabinet minister and leader of the Habaayit Hayehudi party, we’ve all become experts on the amount of water Arab residents of the West Bank get in comparison to what their neighbors, the settlers, use. You don’t need any
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