By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Bibi has finished the four weeks provided by the President to create a government, and has received the two-week extension allowed by law to the President’s discretion. Prospects are not good, with the two contentious camps of the Haredim and anti-Haredim cursing and threatening one another. Bibi says that he […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Two major and roughly equal-sized branches of the Jewish people live in Israel and the United States. We are separated by distance and diverging more and more by culture. In other words, we are gradually becoming (or have already become) two different people. This is a very unfortunate
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama’s plans in the Middle East include three and a half hours in Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The president’s hope is to find a mechanism for advancing Israeli-Palestinian “peace.” The appearance of the President of the United States in “Palestine” is calculated to provide
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO–Once when I was speaking to a group, I was asked the following question: If you could give only one piece of financial planning advice, what would it be? After decades of practice and education, having authored articles and a book on wealth management, how could I put every aspect of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Sheryl RowlingBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There is a generation of people with older children who may still need some parenting and aging parents who need to be intermittently—or frequently—taken care of. These people are called the “sandwich generation” because they are being pushed by the demands of both the younger and older
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MILAN, Italy — To find oneself sitting in the majestic auditorium of La Scala here is thrilling enough in itself. To be attending a performance of Verdi’s opera Nabucco, which describes the biblical episode surrounding the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish people to
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Maariv is one of Israel’s two centrist Hebrew dailies, along with Yedioth Aharonoth. They are between Haaretz to the left and Israel Hayom to the right. While no editorial board may be free of subtle or not so subtle intentions, one doesn’t read Maariv prepared for the most obvious of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to Syrian political opposition groups during a Friends of Syria meeting in Rome on Thursday. The assistance would go to liberated Syrian communities to “fulfil administrative functions” and provide basic services. The U.S. would also give
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Travel and FoodThe Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering by Shmuley Boteach, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York; ISBN 978-965-229-606-1 ©2012, $24.95, p. 340, plus addenda By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — World-renown Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in his latest book The Fed-Up Man of Faith, continues on the path
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionPollard: ‘I haven’t been forgotten’ (JNS.org) Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a jail sentence in the United States for espionage on behalf of Israel, spoke to his wife Esther by telephone Thursday, who told him that the city of Jerusalem has decided to give him the Jerusalem Freedom Award. “Esther, you don’t know how happy
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InternationalSAN DIEGO, California (Press Release)– San Diegan community leader and philanthropist Terri Bignell has been selected by the Jewish Federations of North America as the 2013 recipient of the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award. The national award recognizes an extraordinary woman who has set a high standard for philanthropy and volunteerism in her community. Terri will be recognized
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San Diego CountyBy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Most people feel that divorce is more of a funeral than a musical, but the new Divorce Party the Musical: The Hilarious Journey to Hell…and Back! is determined to convince us that there is life after divorce. And that there is sex after divorce. This naughty musical, opening
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Travel and FoodErdogan at UN summit: Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’ (JNS.org) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grouped Zionism with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as a “crime against humanity” in a speech at a United Nations summit on tolerance held in Vienna on Wednesday, Israel Hayom reported. “Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it becomes unavoidable
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InternationalMartin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Clayborne Carson ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The book may be about ‘Martin’s Dream,’ but it is as much about Clayborne’s soul. In 1985, Professor Clayborne Carson, already a distinguished and credentialed researcher of the
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