While rockets fall on southern Israel and Jewish residents remain on high alert, the Israeli Air Force kills two Gaza terrorists who were reportedly the most senior al-Qaida affiliates in the Palestinian enclave, Hisham Saedni and Ashraf al-Sabah. By Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org Two rockets fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip exploded in […]
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –In Pakistan, this past week, the Taliban shot a young fourteen year old woman named Malala Yousafzai in the head. She is fighting for her life. She was no average target; this was not a random act of gratuitous violence that we read about in the paper.
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Our Kentucky cousin, Harry Jacobson-Beyer, whom I like to call the “Ishmaelite” for reasons to be explained, is determined to learn Spanish, notwithstanding his Kentucky accent, which is something between a twang and a drawl. To that end, with his wife, Sherry, he has traveled to various locations in Spain,
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Michael Hess writes columns for the CBS MoneyWatch website, and a recent column headline caught me eye online: “Is your business a mensch?” I knew right then and there I wanted to contact Mr Hess over the Internet and ask him some questions about how he came up
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky FREIBURG IM BREISGAU, Germany– I’m directing this column against my Internet friends and many others who think that Benyamin Netanyahu is an extremist, against Barack Obama who has told a number of people that Netanyahu is a pest, and against analysts who assert that Israel is a marginal issue in the American election.
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The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-14487-0 ©2012, $39.50, p. 273, plus appendix, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — How many Jewish doctors and lawyers do you know? How many Jewish farmers? I would hazard
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 18th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture launches the largest Jewish Book Fair in the U.S.on November 3, 2012. Spanning nine days, Nov. 3 – 11, the fair is open to the public with tickets available online at http://www.sdcjc.org/sdjbf/index.aspx
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San Diego CalendarBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — According to rabbinic tradition, in order to impress upon Adam the need for human companionship, God brought him all the animals so that he might notice that each one had a partner. This parade of God’s creatures was intended to lead to a deepening of Adam’s own consciousness
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — So much wonderful theatre to see this month that it’s difficult recommending one above the other. In one of San Diego’s little treasures, Moxie Theatre Company, tucked away in a strip mall shopping center in the East County, Naomi Wallace’s 1999 The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek is being
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. –A small, mysterious unidentified drone quietly made its way into Israeli air space last week. Trailed by two F-16I Israeli fighter jets, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew across southern Israel, after intruding in from the Mediterranean Sea and passing Gaza, possibly in an attempt to blend in with
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are those who make things happen, those to whom things happen, and those who say, “What happened?” Which one are you? Most people are a combination of these, but sometimes one tendency dominates to the point of dysfunction. The people who like to make things happen
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Space exploration has always fascinated me so I followed the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket last Sunday with great interest. On Wednesday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station with close to 1,000 lbs of supplies. It was the first private commercial non-NASA supply mission
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Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — After the first presidential debate, I commented that it had been a model of civility and informed discourse. I contrasted it to the nasty commercials that characterize election season. On Thursday night, we had the vice presidential debate, and I must admit I was disappointed in Vice President
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Donald H. HarrisonShalit reveals how he survived in first public interview since freedom (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) One year after his release, Israeli Channel 10 News aired parts of an interview with former Hamas captive Gilad Shalit on Oct. 11, during which Schalit revealed details of how he survived his ordeal and spent his days in captivity.
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