By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — At the current events session in my retirement home a neighbor said: “Obama did something amazing. He brought Arab Turkey and Jewish Israel together in peace. Simply amazing. Why can’t he repeat it between Israel and the Palestinians.” Confusing Turks with Arabs is a common error. The
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97 Jewish Lives Saved; 625 Families Shirk Jewish Responsibility Southwestern Jewish Press, May 31, 1957, Pages 1, 3 Ninety-seven lives have been saved to date by San Diego Jewry through the Emergency Rescue Fund of the United Jewish Appeal, according to Dr. Walter Ornstein and Victor Schulman, General Campaign Co-Chairmen of the most successful Jewish
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Jewish Family Service’s Aging and Wellness program was recently awarded a $20,000 grant from Our Aging Society Program of The San Diego Foundation. The funds awarded on March 1, 2013 will support the Cyber Café at the College Avenue Center and transportation through On the Go to and from the College Avenue
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San Diego CountyEditor’s Note: Following are the transcripts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s joint appearance with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his comments at a solo press conference following that meeting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: SECRETARY KERRY: I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for, first of
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Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy LONDON–We cannot let the death of Margaret Thatcher pass , without a few thoughts on this truly great woman. Most people of my generation regard her as the most inspiring leader since Winston Churchill, and view her death with enormous sadness. In many ways she defined our whole world view. There was
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International, Lloyd LevyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — When I heard from my brother in Israel that my mother died there very early Sunday morning, it was emotionally something like a comma. Hard to put the period down at the end of the sentence. And it was always just as hard for me to know exactly
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Aaron, the brother of Moses, received the news of the sudden and inexplicable death of his two sons – as told in last week’s Torah portion – in silence. In our days, many of those who state that silence is also the most appropriate reaction to the Holocaust – the annual
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Jewish ReligionIran opens mines, milling plant following failure of nuclear talks (JNS.org) Iran, following a lack of progress in nuclear talks last week with the six world powers, has opened two news uranium mills and a milling plant, Reuters reported, citing the Iranian state news agency IRNA. The new Saghand 1 and 2 mines and the
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InternationalBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Here are some of the questions I am often asked. Q: How can I get rich? A: Well, that depends on what you consider to be rich. If you’re talking about yachts, butlers, and ten villas around the world, you have four options: 1) Inherit a bunch of money.
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” The source is Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a White House meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, to co-ordinate positions against Communism when Vietnam was a serious blot on the horizon. It also helps to explain the efforts of Barack Obama and John
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO –Dr. Daniel Pipes is a study in contrasts. He’s a Jewish American historian whose specialty is Islam and the Middle East. He’s a PhD who doesn’t work in academia. But perhaps no dichotomy is as jarring as his soft-spoken manner compared with his subject matter. Sitting across from him at
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –A maxim in the United States Army is, “Don’t tell a soldier to do something; tell him what you want done.” President Roosevelt didn’t tell General Eisenhower to cross the English Channel; he told him to obtain the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. A counterexample can be found in the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen(Editor’s Note: The following article by the leadership of the Zionist Organization of America questions the motives of J-Street. San Diego Jewish World will make its pages available to J Street, should it desire, for a reply) By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — J Street describes itself as Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-peace and
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USABy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C – Now that some time has gone by since President Obama delivered his historic speech to the Israeli people, we can look back and reassess some of the messages he intended to convey In the immediate aftermath, there was some debate on how to interpret the address. Was it a “win”
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