By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — On May 13, 2013, the miracle occurred: all media exploded , denouncing another”avalanche of scandals” in the Obama administration. It was a triple whammy, affecting three cabinet departments, (State, Treasury, and Justice), a perfect trifecta. The media which, shamelessly, kept silent for eight months after the Benghazi […]
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USA
By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California -Upwards of 150 people were treated to a rare and wonderful talent Wednesday night, as the the Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival featured Klezmer vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz, husband, Yale Strom and bassist Gunnar Biggs. The packed room at the recently remodeled Encinitas Library was a testament to the renown of
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Eva TriegerTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Though marijuana is a well-known recreational drug, extensive scientific research has been conducted on the therapeutic properties of marijuana in the last decade. Medical cannabis is often used by sufferers of chronic ailments, including cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder, to combat pain, insomnia, lack of appetite, and other symptoms. Now Prof.
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, the queen of Jewish license plate hunters, found this one, which means repentance. Perhaps the driver is a ba’al tshuvah, which means a person who has embraced Orthodox Jewish ways after a life that was more secular. Or perhaps, the driver wants the people in cars following too closely to
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
Story and photos by Anav Silverman JERUSALEM– A small, but increasingly vocal number of Muslims are rejecting radical hate speech and combating anti-Semitism in the Muslim world. In the recent Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism held this week in Jerusalem, Palestinian Media Watch director, Itamar Marcus and Dr. Boaz Ganor organized a panel discussion with
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Jewish Religion
Assad: Syria has received advanced Russian missiles (JNS.org) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria “has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported. “The rest of the shipment will arrive soon,” Assad reportedly said. Israel fears that Syria’s receipt of S-300 surface-to-air missiles could be a regional
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Jews have been arguing among themselves since before they were called Jews, or had decided what Judaism was supposed to be. Jews make their arguments the subject of comedy. Anti-Semites take them as one more reason to hate the Jews. Remember that Abraham left home. We can assume that he had
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Norman Greene JULIAN, California– If you are fond of dining on a less traveled road in a romantic country inn with an excellent dining room, I have a great suggestion for you. Visit this mountain city east of San Diego. The restaurant at Orchard Hill Country Inn in Julian was a delightful, well
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San Diego County, Travel and Food
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenHezbollah involvement heats up Syrian civil war (JNS.org) The civil war in Syria continued to spill over into Lebanon on Tuesday, with three Lebanese soldiers shot dead by gunmen on the porous border between the two countries. According to reports in Lebanon, the unidentified gunmen crossed into Lebanon from Syria in a jeep and opened
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International
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, as American “doughboys” were being deployed to Europe in the closing frames of World War I. His gilded childhood and adolescence were shaped by his family-bred athleticism, the fervent paternalism of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy (the deeply-flawed US
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USA
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Just as there were six million victims, so were there at least six million stories. One of those stories seems to have occurred many times, because I’ve heard it told by quite a few survivors. It is the story of two or more Jews, witnessing the sadistic
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Jewish ReligionBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A group of oncologists have revealed in a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers that communicating about death and dying with their patients is one of the most difficult and stressful parts of their work. In the United States, 577,190 deaths from cancer occurred in 2012,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — On September 1, 2000, only a couple of days into the Palestinian violence against Jews that erupted at Yasser Arafat’s behest across the West Bank and Gaza, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Dura, was reportedly killed by Israel during a clash with Palestinian armed
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Middle East