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
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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
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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
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The cheers of politicians over the resignation of Mayor Bob Filner may soon turn to gasps of horror when they realize that they too may become subject to trial by media circus. For the women who came forward to complain about Filner’s behavior, perhaps Friday’s denouement of San Diego’s
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Once upon a time, some American tourists went to Mexico on a vacation; they toured some hot springs, where they saw the natives washing their clothes! One tourist said to his guide, “My, isn’t wonderful how Mother Nature provides her children with hot water to wash their
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)–Teens listening to their preferred music while driving commit a greater number of errors and miscalculations, according to a new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers that will be published in the October issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention. Male novice drivers in particular make more frequent and serious mistakes
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I must confess that it was with regret that I learned that soon-to-be-former Mayor Bob Filner will resign. With his resignation I lose the butt of some of my recent jokes. (“Did you hear that the synagogue is cancelling its sexual harassment training program this year? In its
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release)- After three years of direct grant making through its San Diego County Small Grant Program, Weingart Foundation has announced that, as of August 2013, the program will be managed by the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego (JCF). This exciting re-granting relationship is designed to maintain Weingart Foundation’s commitment to San
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San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is hard to look at the photographs. American newspapers are showing largely sanitized versions, so you’re safe. But Twitter feeds and UK newspapers such as the Daily Mail don’t hesitate to show the full horror. Hundreds of beautiful children, all dead, most of them wrapped
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM –There comes a moment when words are not enough. That moment is now, just one week after the death of my 28-year-old niece, Naomi. There are no words of consolation, no words that can convey the terrible depths of sorrow this bereavement has brought to my sister and her family, as
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food
Four rockets from Lebanon fired into Israel (JNS.org) The relatively quiet Israeli-Lebanese border became a renewed source of tension on Thursday as four rockets from Lebanon were fired into Israel. One was intercepted the Iron Dome missile defense system, and two landed in the western Galilee region, causing property damage but no injuries, Israel Hayom
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The latest pictures from the Syrian civil war are especially ugly. More than a thousand civilians in the outskirts of the capital dead from what appears to be poison gas. Uncivilized? More so than the bombardment of civilians that has been going on for a couple of years, with total
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO– In a poll of likely Republican primary voters in Louisiana, 29 percent blamed President Obama for the poor federal response to Hurricane Katrina; whereas 28 % blamed Bush even though Bush was the president back in 2005 and Obama was only a senator. As Winston Churchill once said, “The best
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Lawrence Baron, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Most rabbinical students attribute omnipresence and omniscience as qualities befitting a Creator. Only God is called, The Knower of Thoughts, and The Searcher of the human heart. Rabbinical wisdom has long taught, “Always keep in mind these three things, and you will never come to the brink
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA