By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — When the British novel titled The German English Girl was published in London in 2011, the deeply-felt ”kindertransport”-themed book received high praise and good reviews in England. It was never released in America and was never reviewed in the New York Times or other prestigious national newspapers. Even the […]
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Travel and Food
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — 1) The Speech: “Apologize and Appease” —In the Cairo speech of 2009 , newly-minted president Barack Obama summed up his new doctrine on the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world. After a warm greeting of essalamu ‘aleikom, he: .- Praised Islam as a religion of
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Middle East
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After you celebrate the New Year, make amends with those you’ve wronged, and pray to God to forgive your sins on Yom Kippur, you might want to catch some movies in which the High Holy Days are featured. Here are a few suggestions for your edification and entertainment: East
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Lawrence Baron
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Q: I’ve been in a contemplative mood since the High Holy Days. Now, as I begin a new Jewish year, what “financial failings” should I strive to overcome? A: With an advance apology for “literary license,” I offer the following inspirational meditation: For the financial failings that I have
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– It’s been three years since Barack Obama’s Cairo speech, 11 years since 9-11 and the onset of efforts to reform Iraq and Afghanistan. If Americans and others still need to learn about the Middle East, they might focus on continuing riots over the Muhammad film (Innocence of Muslims), topped up by
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Richard Nixon had many shortcomings, but compared to Barack Obama, he looks like a saint. I do not ever recall seeing Nixon attempting to subvert the 1st Amendment that guarantees freedom of speech, but recently with the release of the Innocence of Muslims film that came
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –In a typically politically liberal Reform synagogue in America, this one in a suburb of San Diego, the typically politically liberal rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah sermonshould be a wake-up call to other Jews who are typically liberal. The Jewish Federations of North America sent out an email calling on all rabbis
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San Diego CalendarAhmadinejad calls ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film an Israeli plot (JNS.org) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday produced another anti-Israel conspiracy theory by saying the film Innocence of Muslims, which has been linked to protests throughout the Arab world, was a plot by the Jewish state to “divide [Muslims] and spark sectarian conflict,” AFP reported. Ahmadinejad’s remarks
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International
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — He was one of the greatest Talmud scholars of the last century, but outside of a small circle of disciples, he was never well-known. He was a tragic figure in many ways, and although few have heard of him today, he has not been totally forgotten. Interestingly,
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Jewish Religion
The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Rowman & Littlefield, New York; ISBN 978-1-44422-1627-3 ©2012, $37.50, p. 318, plus notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Stuart Eizenstat author of The Future of the Jews, from
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Nittai the Arbelite said: Keep your distance from a bad neighbor; don’t socialize with scoundrels. Mishnah—Avoth 1:7 Our parents often taught us, “A person is judged by the company he keeps.” Jewish tradition reaffirms this message, for people then to gravitate to others who
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Evelyn Gordon After radical Islamists killed 16 soldiers at an Egyptian army outpost in Sinai this August, Egypt’s military pointed an accusing finger straight at Hamas-run Gaza, whence it said some of the terrorists came. Suiting action to words, Cairo swiftly shut the Egypt-Gaza border crossing, massed troops near Gaza, destroyed some of the
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Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Associated Press told the story this way: “PARIS — A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person[1]…The reason for the attack was unclear, but it rattled nerves amid global tensions surrounding a U.S.-produced film insulting to Islam.
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney reminds us of a basic political lesson. Politicians should lie. What’s this? An academic with a career in political science at distinguished universities saying that politicians should lie? Yep. If they don’t learn it from me they’d better learn it from someone else. Even when they tell some of
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Ira Sharkansky, USA