WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Following is the text of President Obama’s remarks on Syria’s use of chemical weapons delivered in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, August 31: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst […]
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Twelve Year old Megan Spector was walking along Mission Bay last Fall with 1,600 other participants in the Greater San Diego Chapter of the ALS Association’s Walk. It was Megan’s third time doing the ALS Walk to Defeat ALS, along with her parents and brother, Sheri, Steven and Cole Spector. Megan
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San Diego County
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Assertion. Is it a skill? Is it an attitude? Are we born assertive? Do we learn it as children? Can we acquire it as adults? Most of the literature on assertion assumes that people are unassertive because they don’t know how to be assertive—they lack the skill.
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO — License plate maven Melanie Rubin found this gem — “Rov n I” — which suggests that the owners of the car are a rabbi (rov) and a rebbitzin (I). They should live together in health, happiness, prosperity and the spirit of Torah!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Lloyd Levy LONDON — By the time this article is published, the “West”may be at war with Syria. Or rather, the “West” minus the UK, whose Parliament members made very clear to the Government that they wanted nothing to do with military involvement in yet another Middle East country. In the UK, we are
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — John Kerry’s speech was well tailored, to use a phrase that has become popular to describe the US attack on Syria still in the stages of planning or political buffering as I write this. He identified a number of countries that were supporting the US initiative, without mentioning Britain, Germany,
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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Now that City Councilman Todd Gloria is serving as acting mayor, he needs to do his very best to unite the people of this city and to put the recent unpleasantness behind us. He can do that by seeking consensus among his fellow city councilmembers on important initiatives
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Donald H. HarrisonEditor’s Note: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on Syria on Friday, August 30: President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria. And last night, the President asked all of us on his national security team to
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Middle East
By Laurie Baron The Attorney General of New York has filed a 40 million dollar lawsuit against Donald Trump University for promoting itself as a real university. An inquiry into the Pass/Fail grading system revealed that P stood for profit maker and F for fired. The Attorney General has questioned whether Gary Busey was qualified
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO — License plate maven found this plate bearing a beautiful, feminine Hebrew name, derived from the same word root as “Shalom.”
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireLeaked report shows Israel as ‘priority target’ for U.S. intelligence (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A document leaked by U.S. National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden shows that “Uncle Sam” does not only spy on his enemies, but his allies as well—labeling Israel as a “priority target,” according to a Washington Post report on Thursday.
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Whenever we refer to Moses, we call him Moshe Rabeinu, Moses our teacher. It is curious that although we normally add the words: zichrono l’vracha, “May their name be a blessing,” when we speak about someone who has died, when it comes to Moses, we refer to him
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Jewish Religion
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — When local surgeon Dr. Leslie Giesemann was looking for good preschool programs for her son Benjamin, she chose the Jewish Community Center, which began a relationship that grew to include her whole family. While not from the Jewish community herself, she says she found it to be such
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San Diego County
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