By David A. Harris WASHINGTON, D.C. –To know why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved so intractable, it’s worth reading the two op-eds published by The New York Times on March 13th, in advance of President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated visit to the region. The first, placed at the top of the page, was by Rashid Khalidi, […]
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Middle EastBy Alan Muskovitz DETROIT — Passover is fast approaching. The holiday commences on March 25th, which on the Jewish calendar is the 14th day of the month of Nisan; not to be confused with Nissan, which was a major manufacturer of luxury chariots back in 1445 B.C. As we celebrate our Exodus, we should be
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Travel and FoodBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –He is a 23-year-old college graduate preparing to go to law school. He is verbose, awkward, and intensely focused. The sort of young man who will offer a 20-minute response to “Hello.” He has Asperger’s Syndrome. She is a recluse living in a fantasy world of her own creation, tied
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Cynthia CitronBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—When the opening of the new musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder warns you that the show you are about to see is a tale of revenge and retribution and that blood may spill and spines may chill, you may think this is an updated version of “Sweeney Todd”,
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation have congratulated Charlene Seidle as the 2013 recipient of the J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award. Seidle, Senior Vice President of the Jewish Community Foundation and Executive Director and Vice President of the Leichtag Foundation, accepted the award at the Jewish Funders Network International Conference
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Travel and FoodReport: Israel to ask for U.S. military action on Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli leaders intend to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to act militarily to stop Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday. In return, the U.S. president will likely ask Israel to
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International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Retired symphony violinist Eileen Wingard gave members of her havurah (friendship group) from Ohr Shalom Synagogue a demonstration of that “old time religion” at her home Sunday evening, March 17. Wingard, a vegetarian, organized a potluck dinner assembled from fruits and vegetables mentioned in the Bible, ranging from lentil
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics does not operate like a Swiss watch. The image is outdated, but remains useful. The overwhelming majority of watches are electronic, run by batteries and tiny programs rather than by springs and cog wheels made and assembled by skilled craftsmen (or craftspeople) in Swiss villages. Word is that
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO– When the fall term of the new San Diego Unified School District term begins, the first Hebrew Language public school in town will take its place among other charter schools. Kavod Elementary (http://www.kavodelementary.org) in fact will will be the first public Hebrew Language school on the west coast. A similar
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San Diego County
Hadassah Slates Regional Meeting Here May 19-22 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1957, Page 7 Mrs. Gabriel Berg, Chairman of Hadassah’s 12th annual Southern Pacific Coast Regional Conference to be held at Hotel del Coronado, from May 19 through 22, has just issued a statement of plans for the conclave. There will be delegates from
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Lloyd Levy EILAT, Israel — What a tonic to escape for a few weeks from the darkness of Britain to the light that is Israel. Britain is dark, not merely because it is winter and the weather this winter has been dreadful, but dark in its growing anti-Semitism. Almost weekly in
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International, Lloyd LevyBy Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO — Local college campuses are an active battlefield in a global war to deligitimize Israel and shame its supporters. You could be excused for not knowing this if you don’t go to school, work in higher education, or are otherwise directly affiliated with one of the universities in town, but
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — As we Jews get ready to gather around our seder tables to tell again the story of the biblical Exodus, 16 Grossmont College performers are enacting another famous journey of ancient times, that of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, hero of Troy, and long-lost sailor struggling to get
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Signs are not auspicious for Barack Obama’s coming visit. The front page of Friday’s Ma’ariv headlined a poll showing more Israel’s viewing him as antagonistic to Israel (38%) than as supportive of Israel (33%), and substantially more Israelis opposing a gesture toward the Palestinians in connection with the visit (51%) than
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East