By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Like anybody else old enough, I remember when President John F. Kennedy was slain, fifty years ago this Friday. Our tiny Hebrew day school suddenly sent us home just before two o’clock—exactly when we would have concluded our day with the weekly, all-classes welcoming of Sabbath. There would […]
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USA
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Last week President Obama admitted he had fumbled the ball in the rollout for the Affordable Health Care Act and pledged he would rectify his mistake: “If I fumbled the ball, I’m somebody who’s going to wait until I get the next play and run as hard as I can. We
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Iran says new combat drone has range to reach Israel (JNS.org) Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his country’s new reconnaissance and combat drone, Fotros, has a range of 1,250 miles, meaning it could reach Israel from Iran. “This drone is able to carry out reconnaissance missions and carry air-to-surface rockets for combat operations,” Dehghan
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Those who doubt that Israel is a normal country–along with everything that makes it abnormal–only have had to look and listen to the Hebrew media over the most recent few days. The bulk of the print and noise has not concerned Iran or Palestine, but a famous singer, his middle age relatives
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Anav Silverman BEER-SHEVA, Israel — A replacement for oil has become a burning need in the 21st century, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu having made it clear that for the Jewish state at least, developing oil alternative is a national priority. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have invented a process to make a green
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Jennie Starr SAN DIEGO –Thanks to our Jewish Community Foundation, Leichtag Foundation, and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, the PJ Library books are available to our Jewish families. The program delivers Jewish children’s books in English to our mailbox through the year providing parents an easy way to nurture Jewish identity in our children. The books
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San Diego County
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past week, I went to the local sushi bar for some Nova Scotia sushi rolls. While I was there, I noticed the large screen television featuring a bout that took place at Wrestlemania. Despite some of the usual shtick, the bad guy won fair and
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) presented his most recent findings at San Diego State University this week. Nirit Revzin, president of Aztecs for Israel and the marketing intern for StandWithUs-San Diego facilitated his campus visit. Marcus was in the United States from his home-base in Israel to speak once again, at
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The latest incident of violence to reach the headlines, which is not to say that it is the latest incident, involved the murder of a young soldier not yet finished with basic training, while on a bus returning from sick leave, . The even younger lad who stabbed him numerous times before
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPalestinian Authority incitement complaint filed by Israel’s U.N. ambassador (JNS.org) The murders of three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and one reservist over the last two months has prompted Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor to file an official complaint on Palestinian Authority incitement to the U.N. Security Council. IDF Cpl. Eden Attias, 19,
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International
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — When Jews comfort someone whose family member or close friend has died, we often use the phrase, “May his/ her memory be for a blessing.” We hope that after the immediate shock of her death wears off, and her husband thinks of her, he will think of
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In the early years of his life the patriarch, Jacob, was not a paragon of virtue. He came out of Rebecca’s womb hanging on to the heel of his older twin, Esau. He tried, in vain, to keep Esau from becoming the first born. A few years later,
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Jewish Religion
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO–Thanksgivukkah I’m so fermished! I usually write a themed column for Hanukkah and usually don’t devote a separate piece for Thanksgiving. This year, how can I do one without the other? This is almost as disturbing as when Leap Year adds an extra day of tax season. But, that’s a different
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Sheryl Rowling, Trivia, Humor & SatireJohn Kerry reportedly tells U.S. senators to ignore Israel on Iran sanctions (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly told U.S. senators to ignore Israeli thinking when it comes to Iran sanctions. Describing Kerry’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday, Kerry, a Senate aid told BuzzFeedthat “every time anybody would
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International