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.
Jewish-interest license plate: ‘Esser’ Read More »
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.
Humoring the Headlines: August 27, 2013 Read More »
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
Lillian Waterman Fishman, 1915-2013 Read More »
Science, Medicine, & Education
Israel 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
JNS news briefs: August 27, 2013 Read More »
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
If U.S. retalliates, war may spread to Israel Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin says it was a matter of crazy good luck that she spotted this Jewish-interest license plate: att
Jewish-interest license plate: Mshgnah Read More »
Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — The sounds of Tibetan monks chanting, an Iranian playing the santoor, western African style music, Rastafarian and reggae beats, as well as some Israeli rock, among other musical genres could recently be heard pulsating from Jerusalem’s Tower of David in the Old City. The international and local rhythms made up
Jerusalem’s Sacred Music Festival unites faiths Read More »
Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Although I usually review films that deal with Jewish themes, I’m devoting this week’s column to The Butler (the director’s name was added to the title because Warner Brothers sued over copyright infringement of a silent movie entitled The Butler) because it has been the number one box-office
The Wandering Review: “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Read More »
Lawrence Baron
Astor Orphan by Alexandra Aldrich; Harper Collins, 2012, 259p By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Recently, I read an interview with Alexandra Aldrich published in the Forward. What interested me in the interview was that Aldrich, a member of the famous Astor family, was a Jew, an ultra-orthodox Jew. She had just written a
Astor family orphan becomes an Orthodox Jew Read More »
Travel and FoodIsraeli police come under attack during anti-terror raid, three Palestinian rioters killed (JNS.org) Israeli border police on a raid to apprehend a terror suspect in the Palestinian refugee camp Qalandia near Ramallah were attacked by more than 1,500 Palestinian rioters, resulting in deadly clashes that left three Palestinians dead. The Israeli Border Police were in
JNS news briefs: August 26, 2013 Read More »
InternationalBy Nancy K. Kaufman There’s a funny thing about anniversaries — just as we look back with nostalgia on the way things were, too, do we inevitably reflect on how things have changed in the intervening years. So it is as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Voting rights: Is the U.S. going backwards? Read More »
USA
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Have you ever thought what it would be like to find yourself alone in a strange foreign city with no reference points, no human connections, no means of communication? That’s the position Anne (Mary Margaret O’Hara) finds herself in in filmmaker Jem Cohen’s lyric poem of a film, Museum
Stranger in a strange land Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An internet friend writes that settlements are at the heart of Israel’s sins, and its problems with world public opinion. My friend has been careful to distinguish the different places labeled settlements, but he also falls into the practice of lumping them all into one problem. In this, he accepts
Obama contributes to BDS with his talk of ‘settlements’ Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— When’s the last time you heard prostitution and mothering mentioned in the same sentence? Prof. Einat Peled of Tel Aviv University’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work is willing to bet it wasn’t recently. In a new study, Peled and her co-researcher Tal Levin-Rotberg, a social worker at the Israel Health
Social workers avoid mothering discussions with prostitutes Read More »
Travel and Food