By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The title The Goldbergs evokes childhood memories of the one primetime program that revolved around a Jewish family. I fondly recall Gertrude Berg as a folksy, wise, and warm maternal presence whose accented English and Jewish mannerisms contrasted sharply with the bland American characters of competing series like Ozzie
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Travel and FoodNetanyahu to Obama: Pressure on Iran should not be lessened (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, raising concerns about Iran’s nuclear program just days after Obama spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the phone, the first such interaction between U.S. and Iranian heads of state in
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are at one of those junctions in policymaking–and maybe at a larger place in history–when officials and commentators are filling the inner offices and the media with their predictions about what is going to happen. Some of you may think I am talking about the financial hang-ups between Barack
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir Yad Vashem recently recognized Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann as Righteous Among the Nations, an honorary title bestowed by Yad Vashem on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title is awarded by a special
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron Guido Barilla, the owner of the largest pasta company in the world, asserted that he would never feature a gay family in his firm’s commercials because he believes that only a woman and a man can form a family. Barilla also announced that he would halt production of large shells and manicotti
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Ben Kamin TACOMA, Washington–So nice of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to have actually acknowledged the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews and six million other innocents, including Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholic priests, and assorted other subversives. This is noted on the Sept. 29 anniversary of the 1938 Munich Agreement, when European leaders
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV –A Belgian citizen spying for Iran was arrested on September 11th 2013 in Tel Aviv, this according to a statement released by Israel’s General Security Service (GSS). The man, named Alex Menes, aged 55, was arrested as he tried to leave Israel via Ben Gurion airport. In his interrogation it
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SAN DIEGO–When something is a Mekhaye, it is wonderful — like diving into a nice swimming pool on a hot day, or in the case of the whale on this license plate, perhaps, surfacing and diving with perfect form. Perhaps the driver was referring to his or her car, which is fun to
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — I just read something surprising in the August 25, 2013 New York Times Magazine: our genes have a moral sense, unbeknown to our minds! They can reward us when we act unselfishly and punish us when we think of our own needs first. These are the unexpected findings
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s been almost 40 years since I moved from the US to Israel. I still write about the country where I was born, had my formal education, and spent about one-third of my professional career. Internet friends, some of them not so friendly, attack me from both left and right,
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON –Those who would ban books cite inappropriate language or too much sexuality or violence as their motivation for wanting them removed from library shelves. However, often their unspoken motivation is to suppress ideas that may disrupt the established societal order. In observance of National Banned Book Week, a faculty-student
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Donald H. HarrisonSERENADE, A memoir of music and love from Vienna and Prague to Los Angeles, 1927 to World War II to 2012 by Carol Jean Delmar, Willow Lane Press, Beverly Hills, California By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — This is a beautifully written love story of Franziska Perger and Franz Jung against the backdrop of Europe
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SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin has spotted another interesting Jewish license plate. “Galim” in Hebrew means “waves,” and so one assumes that the owner of the car on which this license plate appears is a person who loves the ocean. Perhaps the owner is a surfer. On the other hand, the background design of
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron The ghost of Dr. Seuss overheard Senator Ted Cruz’s denunciation and responded with the following text message. I do not like Ted Cruz’s scam. His entire speech was just like spam. When health care is in a jam, His filibuster was a sham. Playing loose and playing fast To defund a law
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