By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of my friends recently told me she felt she was always searching for something, but didn’t know exactly what she was looking for. She doesn’t have a mission in life, she said, like a passion to paint or write. She has a job she likes, but […]
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Young Jerry Ford: Athlete and Citizen by Hendrik Booraem V; William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; Grand Rapids, Mich: 2013; ISBN 978-0-8028-6942-5; 131 pages, cover price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– U.S. President Gerald R. Ford’s biological father, Leslie King, was a wife beater. Luckily for her and her young son, Dorothy Gardner King
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It is a matter of routine for the majority of Israel’s population that when children, whether boys or girls, reach the age of eighteen they go into one of the forces that make up the IDF in order to give two or three years of service to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israeli Judaism needs someone like Martin Luther. The doors of the Chief Rabbinate as well as those of countless ultra-Orthodox yeshivot qualify for the nailing of documents calling for reform or rebellion. Luther may not be the appropriate model for what Israel needs, given his calumnies against the Jews once it was
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO –Every trip to Israel is an adventure, a revelation. No two trips are the same, and our recent ten day visit was no exception. Yes, we had the usual encounters with family and Israeli musicians, but after not being in Israel for years, we were treated to the country’s phenomenal
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) –Researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in California have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. Their work could lead to new insights into overcoming this impasse. The problematic therapy investigated involves suppression of the
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON D.C. — This is what happens when the President of the United States is dragged into making foreign and defense policy decisions, instead of determining American interests and then making policy to suit. And it is what happens when the president fails to make a clear case for those policies not
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –There are times in our lives that though our hearts may be pulled in different directions, we know it is better to just say “no.” Something happened this week which reminded me of this important lesson. On Wednesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. our congregation hosts an Alzheimer’s caregiver support
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By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Bilam was traveling with his donkey, when for no apparent reason, the donkey stopped in its tracks. Biliam started to beat the donkey, when miraculously, the donkey spoke and said to Bilam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden since you first started until now?
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Rohani linked to council responsible for Argentina Jewish center bombing (JNS.org) Iran president-elect Hassan Rohani has been linked to a secretive government council responsible for a global assassination campaign against Iran’s enemies in the 1990s that included the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 85 people, the Washington
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Anyone following responses to my columns in the Internet blog section of the Jerusalem Post, or looking over my shoulder as I read email, should perceive the anger and cynicism of those fed up with US efforts to support Israel and other places in the Middle East. Sorry, folks, you’re stuck with
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Travel and FoodDesignate Hezbollah as a terrorist group, Netanyahu tells hesitant EU countries (JNS.org) While the hesitation of countries such as Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy has prevented a consensus among the 27-member European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that it is “hard to see how
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Like so many folks, I loved James Gandolfini. With his bulk and not-so-leading-man looks, he reassured those of us men who are, well, not necessarily debonair yet think of ourselves as creative and worthwhile. But I worried about him—exactly because his agility as an artist was as large
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EL CAJON, California (Press Release) – What is the return on investment for an Associate degree or a certificate of completion from one of California’s community colleges? The public can learn the answer to that question for 179 different programs offered at any of California’s 112 community colleges by visiting a new website,
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