By Aryeh Savir SHA’ALABIM, Israel — Charlie Park, Vice President of Samsung Korea, visited an Israeli Yeshiva at Sha’alabim last week. He was accompanied by a South Korean camera crew. Their objective was to document how students study Talmud at the Yeshiva. Park met with the program directors and with students. The South Koreans have […]
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — I had to ask director Martin Katz whether he had been thinking about death a lot lately. His upcoming play at Grossmont College, An Ordinary Day, is a comedy dealing with a lady who plans to commit suicide, only she is constantly being interrupted. It wasn’t so long
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson EIN BOQEQ, Israel — Just one and a half hours’ drive away from my home just outside Jerusalem lies the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, whose water is so salty that the human body can float quite easily on its surface. It rains very rarely and the temperature there never
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There has been enough already written about the Chechen brothers of Boston to fill a library, and it’s still coming. We’ll never know for sure what produced the decisions of those two young men, and whoever else may have been involved. We’ve already heard from the White House that the
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Yaakov Lappin Israel celebrated its sixty-fifth year of independence this week, an event that saw millions of citizens head outdoors to hold picnics, barbeques, and parties. As the flags, ceremonies, and fireworks washed over the land, defense chiefs delivered annual speeches, in which they signaled to the nation that while things appeared to be
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is a temptation with each act of terror to see it as isolated, connected to the mental state of the actor, but not
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org The imam of a mosque that is managed by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim American Society (MAS) was initially invited to speak at Thursday’s interfaith service in Boston to honor the Boston Marathon attack’s victims, but that invitation was later rescinded by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s office, JNS.org has learned. The Islamic Society
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Jacob Kamaras, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — There are many times when I feel that I am living in Israel when I drive from the synagogue to my home. It is not because of the scenery or landscape, but rather because of the all-way stop signs at the intersection of Tommy and Wing Span Drives.
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Jewish ReligionSouthern Israel hit by mortar shells (JNS.org) Two mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Thursday night, causing no damage or injuries, Israel Hayom reported. The incident occurred one day after rockets were fired from Sinai into the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat. The projectiles exploded in open areas in the
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InternationalBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –How the mighty have fallen! This past week, much has been said about one of Modern Orthodoxy’s greatest scholars of our time—Rabbi Michael Broyde, who allegedly has been using a fake ID to help promote his writings and Halachic scholarship. The use of aliases is common in much
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently, a good number of American Jews, self-declared pro-Israel Zionists, wrote Israel P.M. Netanyahu a finger-wagging letter, asking him “to make painful concessions and sacrifices” to the Palestinians to achieve peace. This was not a discreet expression of opinion, permitted to anyone, but a public admonition full
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USABy Danny Bloom CHIAYI City, Taiwan — National Taiwan Normal University — and “Normal University” here is a French educational term that means a “Teachers College” — signed a partnership agreement with the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District to help provide Chinese-language teachers for an Asian-language learning center set to
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Evidence indicates that the accumulation of amyloid-beta proteins, which form the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, is critical for the development of Alzheimer’s disease, which impacts 5.4 million Americans. And not just the quantity, but also the quality of amyloid-beta peptides is crucial for Alzheimer’s initiation. The
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Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has announced that the Super Hero 5k and BBQ on June 9 will aid the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings. The family-friendly event will take place at Liberty Station in San Diego. Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favorite hero to honor the
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