By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –This is the season when Israelis combine a wish for a good year along with their conventional greetings at work, on the street, or over the telephone. This year it is also an occasion for asking if there will be another war. The answer is almost certainly yes, with the next
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Israel: U.N. Palestinian refugee group should refrain from ‘one-sided political advocacy’ (JNS.org) The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday, calling on the organization “to return to its original humanitarian agenda of assisting Palestinian refugees, while refraining from any one-sided political advocacy activities.” The
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InternationalBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y.– Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have started once again. Hopefully, despite the many problems which must be resolved, they will end with better results than previous ones. One of the main problems is that of Palestinian refugees, as they are commonly called. To say it correctly, the people we now call refugees are
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Arkady Mamaysky, Middle East
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.
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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.
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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
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Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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