By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Although I am embarrassed to it admit it, one of my guilty pleasures is the television show Fashion Police. On Fashion Police Joan Rivers and three co-hosts analyze, praise, and trash various celebrities for the outfits they wear. I watch the show because Joan Rivers is outrageously funny,
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Jewish ReligionIran could build nuclear bomb within one month, report says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As of today, Iran could produce a sufficient quantity of uranium for a nuclear bomb by using its installed centrifuges and low enriched uranium stockpiles in as little as one month, a report by the U.S. Institute for Science and
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Karen Goldman, Jordan and the Dreadful Golem, Penlight Publications, Rachel Moseley illustrator, 2013, ISBN 978-098-386-852-1, 224 pages, $15.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Jewish tweens and teens who enjoyed the Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling may find themselves charmed by a new juvenile fiction series launched by Karen Goldman about a village in the
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The war in Iraq is over. After all of the American sacrifices, and despite the hope for a peaceful and democratic Iraq, sectarian killing of innocent people has become a frequent and sadly familiar issue in the news. Recent history presents the following lesson: When a dictatorship falls, different
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Middle East, USAThe Sisters Weiss by Naomi Ragen, St. Martin’s Press, 2013, ISBN 9780312570194; 336 pgs., $24.99, By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, CaliforniaRebel or conformist? Sheep-like follower or mindful maverick, Naomi Ragen, in her ninth novel, contends that our life’s journey reveals our nature at the soul level. The Sisters Weiss is a tale of an ultra-Orthodox family
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I wanted to prepare a suitable version of the advertisement for my book, The Balancing Game for inclusion in the website of the San Diego Jewish World, which posts my articles from time to time and whose motto is ‘There is a Jewish Story Everywhere.’ For this purpose I
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–If you are not yawning now, you will if you reach the end of this column. The topic is the local authorities of Israel, and the recent election, which in almost all of the cases said to be controversial by excited media personalities turnout was low and incumbents returned to office.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastHezbollah-bound missiles reportedly bombed by Israel Air Force (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Air Force once again prevented a shipment of advanced missiles to Hezbollah along the Syrian-Lebanese border, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported on Wednesday. The newspaper quoted a senior Israeli security source as saying that on Monday, Israeli warplanes targeted a
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InternationalBy Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — Jerusalem is the unique capital of the Jewish state. Palestinian demands to proclaim Jerusalem their capital, entirely or partly, are spurious. I believe that the only reason that Palestinians insist on this is to delegitimize Jewish rights to our 3,000 year old capital and our country. My argument: the Palestinians
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Sometimes it seems to me as if we are living in a Kafkaeque world where common sense has all but disappeared. After reading and writing a book review (https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/10/21/authors-protest-the-feminization-of-boys/) on Raising Boys by Design, I wanted to share some after-thoughts–especially in light of an interesting news story
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book falls within one of those between genres—historical fiction—in which it is difficult to tell what is real and what is made up. If you were writing a biography of Marilyn Monroe, you couldn’t reliably cite it, yet there is enough verisimilitude about the book that a reader
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron If glitches continue to plague HealthCare.gov, the Affordable Health Care Act is slated to be renamed the Inaccessible Health Care Act. . Dan Snyder, the politically insensitive owner of the Washington Redskins, is considering less offensive names for his team. Possible alternatives are: The Washington Firewater Drinkers, The Washington Savages, and The
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireTexas A&M to open campus in Nazareth (JNS.org) Texas A&M University will open a campus in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth in about a year, Israel Hayom reported. Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel. Education Minister Shay Piron said he hoped the new campus would become an alternative for Israeli Arabs who
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InternationalThe Spy Who Loved, by Clare Mulley. S. Martin’s Press, 426 pp., 2013 By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Christine Granville was a British Spy during World War II. She was a woman who loved dangerous adventures who risked her life many times to save others in occupied Nazi territory. Christine challenged the
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