By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It was a wonderful passage through the 50th anniversary of The Dream, replete with truly credentialed achievements, a variety of historical revelations, and a share of significant embellishments. The latter grouping included the beatification of Martin Luther King Jr.—a real person who had only some relationship with the […]
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USA
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Have you heard the one about the dancer who traded in her ballet barre to work in a bar? No? How about the one about the woman who slings one liners the way a cook in a greasy spoon slings hash? Rita Rudner happened upon the Comic World after
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Travel and Food
PA media blames Israel and Jews for Al-Aqsa Mosque arson by non-Jewish tourist (JNS.org) A number of official Palestinian Authority (PA) media reports recently blamed Israel and Jews for setting fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1969, even though the arson was proved to have been committed by non-Jewish
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International
SAN DIEGO– This license plate find by Melanie Rubin makes many people smile with pleasure. The license plate tells us that its owner is a doctor, who also is a Jewish grandma. We infer that whoever she is, she keeps the traditions, and she is a modern woman. We’ve got to admire her!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – CaseyGerry partner Frederick Schenk has been selected by his peers as San Diego “Lawyer of the Year” for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions in the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, a prestigious national ranking of attorneys selected through an exhaustive annual peer-review process. According to Best Lawyers www.BestLawyers.com,
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San Diego County
By Sheryl Rowling Q: My son is the apple of my eye. I want to set up a Section 529 college savings account for him, but heard that the custodian controls the investments. I’m not an expert, but I’d like to control the investments. What can I do? A: Unfortunately, you can’t have your honey
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –This is the season when Israelis combine a wish for a good year along with their conventional greetings at work, on the street, or over the telephone. This year it is also an occasion for asking if there will be another war. The answer is almost certainly yes, with the next
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIsrael: U.N. Palestinian refugee group should refrain from ‘one-sided political advocacy’ (JNS.org) The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday, calling on the organization “to return to its original humanitarian agenda of assisting Palestinian refugees, while refraining from any one-sided political advocacy activities.” The
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InternationalBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y.– Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have started once again. Hopefully, despite the many problems which must be resolved, they will end with better results than previous ones. One of the main problems is that of Palestinian refugees, as they are commonly called. To say it correctly, the people we now call refugees are
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Arkady Mamaysky, Middle East
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, found someone who rates a 10 (esser), or perhaps it is the owner’s car that gets a perfect score.
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO– Russia has approached the United States about transferring Chelsea (Bradley) Manning to Russian custody. It urged the United States to drop the 35 year sentence against him for leaking classified documents in return for Russia imposing a hefty fine and jailing him for a year for promoting a transgender lifestyle.
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Lawrence Baron, USA
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Lillian Waterman Fishman, a scientist and philanthropist who co-founded a cancer research foundation that grew to become Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, died at her home in La Jolla, Calif., on August 24. She was 98. “Lillian Fishman was a scientific trailblazer in every sense, and she was a
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Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael ranks 4th in global health care efficiency (JNS.org) Israel ranks 4th in a new ranking system on global health care efficiency, ahead of advanced countries in Europe and North America. According to data compiled by Bloomberg that ranks countries based on three criteria—life expectancy, health-care cost as a percentage of GDP per capita, and
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — As of this writing, the betting is that Obama will decide to strike Syria, as punishment for its use of chemical weapons. One can admire the President’s deliberate consideration of what appear to be all the bad options, even while ridiculing him for the bombast which he proclaimed against chemical
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East