By David Amos SAN DIEGO –Every trip to Israel is an adventure, a revelation. No two trips are the same, and our recent ten day visit was no exception. Yes, we had the usual encounters with family and Israeli musicians, but after not being in Israel for years, we were treated to the country’s phenomenal
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) –Researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in California have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. Their work could lead to new insights into overcoming this impasse. The problematic therapy investigated involves suppression of the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON D.C. — This is what happens when the President of the United States is dragged into making foreign and defense policy decisions, instead of determining American interests and then making policy to suit. And it is what happens when the president fails to make a clear case for those policies not
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –There are times in our lives that though our hearts may be pulled in different directions, we know it is better to just say “no.” Something happened this week which reminded me of this important lesson. On Wednesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. our congregation hosts an Alzheimer’s caregiver support
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Bilam was traveling with his donkey, when for no apparent reason, the donkey stopped in its tracks. Biliam started to beat the donkey, when miraculously, the donkey spoke and said to Bilam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden since you first started until now?
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Jewish Religion
Rohani linked to council responsible for Argentina Jewish center bombing (JNS.org) Iran president-elect Hassan Rohani has been linked to a secretive government council responsible for a global assassination campaign against Iran’s enemies in the 1990s that included the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 85 people, the Washington
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Anyone following responses to my columns in the Internet blog section of the Jerusalem Post, or looking over my shoulder as I read email, should perceive the anger and cynicism of those fed up with US efforts to support Israel and other places in the Middle East. Sorry, folks, you’re stuck with
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Travel and FoodDesignate Hezbollah as a terrorist group, Netanyahu tells hesitant EU countries (JNS.org) While the hesitation of countries such as Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy has prevented a consensus among the 27-member European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that it is “hard to see how
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International
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Like so many folks, I loved James Gandolfini. With his bulk and not-so-leading-man looks, he reassured those of us men who are, well, not necessarily debonair yet think of ourselves as creative and worthwhile. But I worried about him—exactly because his agility as an artist was as large
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Travel and Food
EL CAJON, California (Press Release) – What is the return on investment for an Associate degree or a certificate of completion from one of California’s community colleges? The public can learn the answer to that question for 179 different programs offered at any of California’s 112 community colleges by visiting a new website,
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES– How do you get an overweight, out-of-shape Jewish lady “of a certain age” to join a flamenco class? You nag. You noodge. You kvetch. You promise her ice cream. Or you take her to see Stephen Sachs’ new play Heart Song at the Fountain. Sachs, the Fountain Theatre’s co-founder
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Cynthia CitronIsrael apprehends alleged killers of cabinet minister’s nephew (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces apprehended three Palestinian Authority security officers who allegedly killed an Israeli near Nablus in 2011, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. The arrests, which were made in May but embargoed until Tuesday, were carried out with the help of the
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International
SAN DIEGO — Our Jewish-interest license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, has done it again, finding a famous toast “to life” spelled unusually but nevertheless one which we fervently hope will apply to all the good people in this world, whatever their religion, race, national origin, gender, sexual identity, political party — or what have you.
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
Lee Mandel, Moryak: A Novel of the Russian Revolution, Glagoslav Publications, ISBN 978-17-826704-6-9, 398 pages, No cover price listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It is a good thing that this book is labeled as a novel in its sub-title. Otherwise, in this age of public disclosures about government machinations and spying,
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Donald H. Harrison