Margaret Thatcher ‘untouched by anti-Semitism’ (JNS.org) Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke Monday. Thatcher represented the Conservative Party and in 1987 famously said, “There is no such thing as society.” The “Iron Lady,” as she was nicknamed, also forged close relations with Britain’s
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InternationalBy Navras Jaat Aafreedi, PhD GREATER NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India — India’s only Academy Award winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a European Jew, who was based in New Delhi for 24 years, from 1951 until 1975, when she moved to New York, passed away on April 3, 2013. She wrote for films directed and co-produced
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As a child of a Holocaust survivor, I find it hard to believe that the generation of my aunts and uncles, and father is rapidly coming to an end. The world gets older by the day; my family used to have a large number of relatives
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Donor Luncheon to Mark ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Southwestern Jewish Press, May 17, 1957, Page 4 “… and the desert shall bloom” has been selected by Chairman, Mrs. Elmer Wohl and her co-Chairman, Mrs. Sam Cohen, as the theme for Hadassah’s Donor Luncheon to be presented on Thursday, June 20, in the Palm Room of the U.S.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — While the United States, not least the State Department, is trying to deal with the crisis caused by the renewed belligerence of North Korea, the US Secretary of State John Kerry is again in the Middle East in his continued effort to help bring peace to the region by
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Yet another Holocaust Memorial Day is upon us, and no surprise that it is competing in the media with yet another rumble concerned with the elusive peace process that some hope may establish Israel beyond the fear of another Holocaust. Actual survivors are said to be dying at the rate
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Alan Elsner Pro-Israel advocates are coming to realize that we have a growing problem in reaching out to progressives and liberals in the United States. Polling data has for some time revealed a growing gap between the support for Israel among Republicans and among Democrats. Although overall support for Israel among Americans remains
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Hotel del Coronado History, Hotel del Coronado Heritage Department (c) 2013, 208 pages, $39.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — If you are a Hotel del Coronado fan, and who isn’t, this is a great book to leaf through. I’ve always been interested in the lives of U.S. Presidents, and it’s interesting to see
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California – In Shemini, the Torah portion for April 6, 2013, we read about the death of Aaron’s two sons, who died from an accidental explosion in the Tabernacle. Aaron’s reaction is quite telling–despite the absence of scriptural detail from the narrator. As is often the case with biblical
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The world is in tumoil. But is it any more so than usual? Perhaps yes. Young Jung Kim Un is threatening to use nuclear weapons against someone, maybe the US, possibly South Korea, or even Japan, or any of the countries of South-East Asia (which constitute the world’s
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California — To anyone who only knew film critic Roger Ebert from his television persona, arguing with his long-time colleague Gene Siskel, you might characterize Ebert as “the grumpy one.” But when he died this week after a 10-year battle with cancer, the heartfelt tributes from his friends and fellow critics emphatically
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Cynthia CitronBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C– Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to “suspend unilateral action” against Israel for some indefinite period of time. It is, his spokesman says, to “give a sufficient chance for [US Secretary of State John] Kerry’s efforts to succeed.” By this, Abbas apparently means he will not make any additional
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Growing up in Chicago, Shabbat was not a day of prayer and rest, but for going to the movies. Every Saturday I trundled over to the neighborhood theatre and watched morning screenings of cartoons, capped off with a Flash Gordon episode. After lunch, I’d return for the double feature.
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Lawrence BaronBy Peter Huessy The United States is engaging in a major debate over the appropriate size of the Defense Department. At its heart are two issues. First, should we continue to reduce our military spending by roughly $947 billion over the next decade, as was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011? Second,
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