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‘Time travels’ take Jewish girl through Paris and Rome

March 27, 2013

Mira’s Diary:” Lost in Paris” and “Home Sweet Rome” both by Marissa Moss, Sourcebooks, Inc., ISBNs respectively 978-1-4022-66065 and 978-1-4022-66096, $12.95 each. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– A teenage heroine learns to her surprise that, unsought, she has the power to travel through time, a genetic gift from her mother whose mysterious disappearance also was

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Donald H. Harrison

Netanyahu may oppose Lapid on 5 key issues

March 27, 2013

By J.Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Now that President Obama has come and gone, Israel’s new Knesset will get down to business.The question in my mind is will Yair Lapid, the new flag bearer of the middle class, succeed in his bold program or will he follow the example of his predecessors, Shinui and Kadima,

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Middle East

The difficulties of empires, American and ancient

March 26, 2013

By Ira Sharkansky ATHENS — It’s never been easy governing an empire. So many cultures, and so many problems of communication across distances, languages, and local efforts to evade dictates from the center. Cyrus, the Persian emperor of the 6th century BCE, has an esteemed place in Jewish tradition, and helped to define the way of

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International, Ira Sharkansky

Tai ‘Chai’ — Chinese art helps a nice Jewish lady!

March 25, 2013

By Ilene Lerner BOSTON –I first saw Tai Chi being done one sunny morning in the early eighties as I walked on the outskirts of a city park in San Francisco’s Chinatown. From the first moment, I was attracted and then transfixed as a large crowd of Chinese adults, many of them seniors, performed intricate

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Travel and Food

Jewish license plate: Chutzpa

March 25, 2013

SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, who spotted this gem, asks: “Does it take chutzpa to put chutzpa on your license plate?” In our opinion, not at all. Just a sense of humor.

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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin

World does not take Obama’s Iran threats seriously

March 25, 2013

By David P. Goldman The Obama administration has utterly failed to convince the world that it is serious when it says the U.S. would attack Iran if it does not halt its nuclear weapons program. Analysis of energy markets reveals that crude oil is trading today with no greater risk than stocks and currency. Even

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USA

The song of Passover

March 25, 2013

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The historian Thomas Cahill published an exalted and cogent book in 1998 entitled The Gifts of the Jews. This is the season that especially proves his point. Passover is the best gift we ever gave to the world; nobody who was ever a human being could turn down

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Jewish Religion

HBO movie tells of 50 rescued children

March 25, 2013

By Peter L. Rothholz/JNS.org Journalist Steven Pressman first learned of the 50 children rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in 2002 from his wife Liz Perle, the Krauses’ granddaughter, who had possession of a formerly hidden and unpublished manuscript written by Eleanor decades earlier. That manuscript spelled out in detail the Krauses’ mission to rescue

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Travel and Food

Huldai: Start up city now city of start ups

March 25, 2013

By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai recently came to New York City to talk about his city of sun, sand, skyscrapers, and start-ups. With “just two minutes” on a winter afternoon to introduce the city and its entrepreneurs, he began his presentation with a weather report. Noting the damp, cold conditions, Huldai

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Middle East

JNS news briefs: March 25, 2013

March 25, 2013

Israeli general: Assad has already used chemical weapons against Syrian rebels (JNS.org) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army has likely already used small amounts of chemical weapons against rebel forces, Israel Defense Forces Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yair Golan told Israel Hayom. “He hasn’t crossed the Rubicon yet. What I think he has done, if he

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International

Pushing the seder leader’s buttons

March 24, 2013

By Rabbi Michael Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Children have an unusual ability when it comes to confronting our spiritual hypocrisy as parents and as adults; very often they get to the essence of the problem as they perceive things. Frequently, as parents, we often fail to hear the questions our young people ask of us;

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Much to learn at Science and Engineering Fair

March 24, 2013

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — From a student-invented device to strengthen tongue muscles, and thereby battle some speech impediments, to a survey to determine how familiar Ashkenazi Jews are with the threat posed to them by Tay-Sach Disease, I found there was much to learn at the Greater San Diego Science and

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Donald H. Harrison

JNS news briefs: March 24, 2013

March 24, 2013

Erdogan says Gaza blockade must be lifted before full normalization with Israel (JNS.org) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Israel to compensate flotilla victims and end its blockade of Gaza before full normalization of relations can be restored. On Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama was about to depart Israel, Israeli Prime

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International

Lessons to be drawn from Athens, Jerusalem

March 24, 2013

By Ira Shakansky Jerusalem and Athens. Two cities, two cultures, both at the roots of defining elements in Western civilization. In the vast writing on each, we can rest with the summary that Jerusalem is a source of much that is spiritual, and Athens much that is philosophical, rational, and ultimately scientific. Each affected the

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International, Ira Sharkansky

‘Time travels’ take Jewish girl through Paris and Rome

Netanyahu may oppose Lapid on 5 key issues

The difficulties of empires, American and ancient

Tai ‘Chai’ — Chinese art helps a nice Jewish lady!

Jewish license plate: Chutzpa

World does not take Obama’s Iran threats seriously

The song of Passover

HBO movie tells of 50 rescued children

Huldai: Start up city now city of start ups

JNS news briefs: March 25, 2013

Pushing the seder leader’s buttons

Much to learn at Science and Engineering Fair

JNS news briefs: March 24, 2013

Lessons to be drawn from Athens, Jerusalem

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