By Paul Greenberg LA JOLLA, California — Now in its 11th year, The Joyce Forum, founded by its namesake Joyce Axelrod, will present a variety of short films from around the world, as well as two feature films from Israel during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival “San Diego has been a gold mine […]
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Travel and FoodPalestinian media continues to put out anti-Israel and anti-American messages (JNS.org) Amid the release of a controversial study on Monday dismissing well-documented claims that Palestinian textbooks teach hatred, Palestinian media outlets continue to broadcast and print anti-Israel and anti-American messages. Palestinian Authority TV (PA TV) last week aired a music video honoring Ibrahim Hamed
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InternationalBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — About a month ago, the PBS Network presented an extraordinary and revealing documentary called Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy. We all know of the many composers, singers, and writers of Jewish roots who have contributed to the Broadway stage, from its humble beginnings in New York, to the golden
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Travel and FoodBy James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, the Israeli Air Force reportedly attacked two different targets in Syria. One is said to have been a convoy ferrying advanced anti-aircraft missiles to the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, the other, a large compound reported to contain training camps and research facilities housing Russian technicians as well
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– The Women’s Leadership Network of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) on Monday, Feb. 4, urged NJDC’s members to call their members of Congress and urge “bold” and “courageous” actions to pass gun control legislation and end the epidemic of gun violence. “Last week, NJDC’s good friend former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) urged
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USATEL AVIV (Israel21C)–Israelis love their dogs. Nearly 400,000 pet dogs are listed on the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture’s National Dog Registry, and Tel Aviv has the largest number of registered dog owners in the country. But Israelis aren’t content just to feed and shelter Lady, Lucky and Bonnie (the three most popular Israeli dog names).
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Though a small group of proteins, the family called Ras controls a large number of cellular functions, including cell growth, differentiation, and survival. And because the protein has a hand in cellular division, mutated Ras, which can be detected in one-third of all tumors, contributes to many human cancers by allowing
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — As much as I try to tell myself that Israel and the United States will make sure that Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons won’t reach Hezbollah or any other terrorist organization and thus threaten Israel, nevertheless last Sunday I went to pick up our gas masks from the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –We hear from the anti-Israel rabble, as well as some highly placed politicians and professors that a pro-Israeli lobby is much too powerful and may even dictate things in Washington concerned with the Middle East. It ain’t that simple. No doubt that AIPAC is one of the most prominent
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO –The Ten Commandments Of Investing The principles set forth in the Ten Commandments can be applied to investing and achieving financial security. (Actually, eight – as you will see.) Sure, it takes interpretation, but why not? Here goes – ONE: I am the Lord Your God, who brought you out
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Jewish Religion, Sheryl RowlingFormer IDF intelligence head: Iran has all necessary tools to produce bomb (JNS.org) Iran could have its first atomic bomb within four to six months if the regime in Tehran took the decision to go ahead and make a bomb, former IDF Director of Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin said on Monday. Speaking at a press
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InternationalBy Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — Timothy McNeil’s new play, Machu Picchu, Texas, now having its world premiere at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, is about an angry, dysfunctional family again, folks, but this time the intensity is mitigated by a cast that is uniformly excellent and a set designed by Michael Fitzgerald and Aidan Fiorito that
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Cynthia CitronBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — References to peace with the Palestinians have returned to the rhetoric of Binyamin Netanyahu. During the election campaign he tended to talk about the threat from Iran and its stooges, not about opportunities for peace. But in his acceptance speech in response to the request by President Peres that
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Middle EastBy Christopher Ruddy NEW YORK–It’s a cold Friday night last December and I am at the reception desk to see former New York Mayor Ed Koch at New York Presbyterian Hospital. “Ed Koch please,” I ask the young African-American fellow serving as the receptionist. “You’re here to see Mayor Koch!” he says rather excitedly to
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