TICO completes season, Hungarian-inspired music to start next

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) culminated its 2013-14 season with a rousing All American Pops Spectacular. As the audience departed, following the sprightly rendition of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” they were smiling and uplifted. The musical feast of Americana included marches by Sousa, arrangements of folksongs, “Arkansas Traveler” and […]

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Travel and Food

Saddam’s Iraq is a lesson for U.S.-Syrian relations

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — A flurry of diplomatic activity has overtaken the Senate debate on the use of force by the United States against Syria as punishment for/deterrence against the use of chemical weapons. The world awaits the next meeting, the next announcement, the next slip-of-the-tongue, or the first bomb. The interregnum is

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Philanthropists to be honored; Galinson memorial planned

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Eight outstanding community leaders have been chosen as honorees as well as a special memorial tribute to community leader Murray Galinson at the upcoming National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon. The event presented by The Jewish Community Foundation San Diego will take place on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 at the Hilton

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San Diego County

Remembering NFL coaches Sid Gillman and Marv Levy

By Robert Gluck/JNS.org  Growing up in a tough Minneapolis neighborhood, Sid Gillman overcame anti-Semitism to become one of professional football’s most important innovators. “Minneapolis, unlike (neighboring) St. Paul, was an anti-Semitic town. St. Paul was more welcoming to Jews. Sid’s wife was discriminated against because she was Jewish. Sid passed away, but I talked to

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Travel and Food

Grossmont College honors rescue workers at 9-11 commemoration

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON – A UCSD emergency room doctor who led a medical team from San Diego to Ground Zero in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and treated rescue workers and volunteers at the site, has offered eleven prescriptions for Americans wanting to commemorate the attacks appropriately. Dr.

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Donald H. Harrison

JNS news briefs: September 11, 2013

Russia to build second nuclear plant for Iran, deliver S-300 anti-aircraft system (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Russia will supply Iran with a modified version of the vaunted S-300 anti-aircraft system and will build a new nuclear reactor for the Ayatollah’s regime, the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reported Wednesday. The report comes on the heels of

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International

JNS news briefs: September 10, 2013

Russia’s Syria chemical weapons plan draws skepticism from Israel (JNS.org) Israeli officials reacted with skepticism to the plan proposed by Russia on Monday to transfer Syria’s chemical weapons to international supervision. Army Radio reported that Israeli leaders believe the proposed deal by Russia, Syria’s ally, should be approached with caution because it may be a

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International

The quiet before the storm, or the compromise?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–One of the great miracles of politics is the silence of Israeli ministers and Members of Knesset with respect what is occurring, and might occur, as a result of our northern neighbor being attacked, or not attacked by the United States. Generally, Israeli politicians are like those elsewhere. Maybe more so. Certainly

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Americans not war-weary, but are ‘war-wary’

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama and supporters of an American strike on Syria have characterized negative American public opinion as “war-weariness.”  They are trying to overcome it with exhortations about America’s special responsibility, or America’s credibility, or the president’s credibility, or the terribleness of the fighting there.  The public isn’t buying it,

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Shoshana Bryen, USA