Israeli Justice official: ‘Prisoner X’ agreed to take on pseudonym (JNS.org) The the controversial Prisoner X, who has dominated the headlines in Israel and Australia in recent days, was “imprisoned under another name not just to protect state security, but also to protect the prisoner himself,” an Israeli Justice Ministry official told Israel Hayom Thursday.
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InternationalBy Yaakov Lappin On January 30, just before dawn, according to international media reports, the Israel Air Force struck a target (or targets) in Syria. While many details of this attack remain shrouded in mystery, since then a number of facts have come into focus. The strike followed months of warnings from Jerusalem that Israel
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Steve Kelley, editor, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2013 edition, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., 2013; 206 pages, ISBN 9781455517760, $14.95 * By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Formerly a cartoonist with the Union-Tribune in San Diego, where he and Shelia Lawrence, widow of Hotel del Coronado owner M. Larry Lawrence became a
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Donald H. HarrisonZOA’s Klein says Jewish leaders called him to stop opposing Hagel (JNS.org) American Jewish leaders have pressed the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to stop publicly opposing the nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary because making that a “Jewish issue” is “bad for the Jews,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “I was called by
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Currently we are reading a lot, but not everything about Ben Zygier, or Ben Alon, or Ben Allen. We are pretty sure that he was an Australian Jew who migrated to Israel, served in the IDF, was recruited to Mossad, and died in Ayalon prison in 2010. We hear that he
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’ve come to realize why the political parties, especially those that hoped to be in the next government, didn’t have much to say about the peace process during the election campaign. They may have realized that every proposed solution is bound to be too difficult for the voters to
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Middle EastBy Joel A. Moskowitz, MD LA JOLLA, California — The father of JFK and Bobby and Ted Kennedy was intimately involved in the world events leading up to World War II. And David Nasaw’s book The Patriarch: The remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy tells it all. Published by Penguin Press this
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO –While I love the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, I have chosen not to favor one film over another by reviewing it here. My hesitance to do so testifies to both the quality and quantity of the motion pictures being screened. The SDJFF is simply a celluloid smorgasbord loaded with
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Lawrence BaronLOS ANGELES (Press Release) – Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday, Feb. 13, provided an update on the success of the Department of Insurance’s Iran Divestment Program. Jones announced that only eight insurance companies, of the 1300 insurers licensed to do business in California, continue to decline to divest from holdings in the energy, military,
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –The first thing to understand is that this annual rite —a source of pride and curriculum opportunities for a lot of folks—is not confined to this country. It is also observed in Canada and the United Kingdom and it is ultimately about commemorating edifying milestones, events, and icons of
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Fox Lodge News Southwestern Jewish Press, April 19, 1957, Page 5 The next regular meeting of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge will be held on Tuesday, April 30th, 1957, at 8:30 p.m. at the Beth Jacob Center. At this meeting we will have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Norman Simon, Assistant Grand Secretary of Southern
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryWife says Pollard’s health unstable; plans for Obama’s visit (JNS.org) Esther Pollard, the wife of imprisoned Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard, said after visiting her husband that his medical condition was not stable. On Wednesday, Esther returned home to Israel after visiting Jonathan at a federal prison in North Carolina. She now plans to meet
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InternationalBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Readers of the New York Times, who, like myself, buy the paper chiefly for its extensive coverage of Israel, might be forgiven if they believed that the question of what to do about Iran’s nuclear ambitions played a major role in Israel’s recent elections. Iran was hardly
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK–Scholars have long disagreed about what distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal world. Some have argued that it is man’s intelligence and use of language that distinguishes him; hence the term Homo Sapiens. Others have maintained that it is the fact that he uses tools that
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