Iranian missiles could reach U.S. by 2015, report says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Iran could develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States by 2015, a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday revealed. The Foreign Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Assessment, prepared by the National Air and Space Intelligence
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is currently playing in repertory at Balboa Park’s Old Globe Theater. One of the main characters is Shylock, a Jewish money lender. Shylock lends Bassanio three thousand ducats at no interest, despite the fact that the loan is being acquired for Antonio, who has long
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–If it were likened to a tennis match, Donna Frye and her two lawyer friends came up with a very weak serve in their effort to force Bob Filner to resign as mayor. Filner decisively volleyed the political ball right back to them, leaving them to scramble for a way
Arrogance of Filner’s accusers enables mayor to bounce back Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Lloyd Levy LONDON–There is a new political phenomenon in the UK called UKIP, or the United Kingdom Independence Party. Those of your readers in the UK will know to what I refer. Your readers in USA will probably be the very first people in the USA to hear about this political party, and the
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By Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi GREATER NOIDA, India– It is the stuff of which films are made and novels are written. His absorbing story is such that it connects three continents, Asia, Europe and North America, five countries India, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom and Pakistan, and two communities seen as natural adversaries today, the
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Jewish ReligionSaudi Arabia reportedly has missiles trained on Iran, Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Based on new satellite images, Saudi Arabia has apparently deployed ballistic missile batteries that have both Israel and Iran in their crosshairs, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported Thursday. The images, which were analyzed by military experts at IHS Jane’s, a business
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InternationalBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The accusations against Mayor Bob Filner are coming fast and furious, and I feel heartsick that the Jewish mayor’s administration seems to be imploding. He’s been accused of improperly soliciting payment from land developers to the city treasury for his favorite projects, an accusation that has evidently aroused
Say it isn’t so, Mayor Bob Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egyptian Army Commander and Defense Minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was faced in Cairo with what experts say was the largest human gathering in history — somewhere between 17 and 30 million people — demanding a chance to redo the 2011 revolution. A “mulligan,” so to speak. The military responded
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenTEL AVIV (Press Release)— According to the World Health Organization, 80% of blindness is preventable or treatable — but it remains a severe health concern across the globe, even in industrialized countries. Now hope is on the horizon — especially if countries are willing to emulate Israel’s approach to eye health, says Prof.Michael Belkin of
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — When the nine days of the Jewish month of Ab arrives, our joy diminishes accordingly.[1] Unlike other times of the year, this period in particular beckons us to give thought to the reasons why the Second Jewish Commonwealth of the 1st century ended in disaster for the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastDefense cuts bite into IDF’s operational platforms (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces began to implement government-mandated cuts to its budget, announcing Tuesday that several of its operational platforms will be reconfigured, while others will be retired, in an effort to slash its expenditures. The defense establishment has been asked to slash some 22 billion shekels
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International
By Eileen Wingard LONG BEACH, California — The Long Beach Opera Company’s staging of Ernest Bloch’s Macbeth was an unusual production, taking place in San Pedro’s World Cruise Center. With bleacher seating on two sides of a center aisle, there were no set changes, costumes were minimal, and the three acts were telescoped into 105
Opera company cruises through Bloch’s ‘MacBeth’ Read More »
Eileen Wingard
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– I have kept my time-worn copy of Roget’s Thesaurus in my personal library since I was in the seventh grade. It was given to me by my teacher, a Mr. Zeller, who introduced me to the beauty of language and who first stimulated my fascination with words. He
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating motor neuron disease that rapidly atrophies the muscles, leading to complete paralysis. Despite its high profile — established when it afflicted the New York Yankees’ Lou Gehrig — ALS remains a disease that scientists are unable to predict, prevent, or cure. Although several
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