By Candice Mervis TEL AVIV–Professor Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr Zvi Lederman of Tel Aviv University (TAU) Department of Archaeology recently uncovered an ancient seal depicting a man confronting a large lion, which resembles the Bible story of Samson. Their excavation team made camp at a kibbutz near the site at Tel Beit Shemesh, 27 miles […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel JERUSALEM — Let me begin with the good news first. The Democratic Party platform reinstated the importance of Jerusalem to our country’s values and principles—along with God too! Now comes the bad news. Although the section of Jerusalem was reinstated, the sections pertaining to the Palestinian refugees and the terrorist
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You’ve heard about the dog that didn’t bark. Now we have the sentence that was not in the draft of the Democrats’ platform. It was there in 2008. According to the New York Times, the key sentence was, “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel”. The Jerusalem Post
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO — I do not usually go to the San Diego Symphony Summer Pops concerts, choosing instead programs with more substance and inspiration. However, the concert we attended on Saturday, September 1, was certainly of serious musical value, and lots of fun. This was the orchestra’s traditional close to the Summer
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Travel and FoodJerusalem language returns to Democratic platform after three attempted votes (JNS.org) Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, at first controversially omitted from the 2012 Democratic Party Platform, will return to the document after three attempted voice votes at the party’s convention in Charlotte, NC, on Wednesday. On all three voice votes, a seemingly indistinguishable
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International, Jewish Religion
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Herb Targum SAN DIEGO — It was a catered first anniversary party for the San Diego chapter of Stand With Us but for most of the evening, Wednesday, Sept. 5, the mood of the estimated 500 guests was far from celebratory as the substitute main speaker, Wall Street
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By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — With his most recent comments in London last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, put a greater distance between the United States and Israel over a potential attack against Iran. “I don’t want to be complicit if they [Israel] choose to do it,”
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Middle East
-Second in a series- By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — Gardeners sometimes will debate whether certain “companion plants” will help each other. For example, will planting onions really ward off insect pests that feast on bean plants? However, at the San Diego Botanic Garden here, there is general agreement that a genuinely symbiotic relationship
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Daniel Pipes “President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus.” That’s what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party’s nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for sacrificing a friend for selfish reasons. Romney had deployed this phrase before, for example in May 2011 and
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USAAhmadinejad admits sanctions hurting Iranian economy (JNS.org) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinehad on Tuesday admitted that the West’s sanctions have created problems for the Islamic Republic’s oil exports and banking. “There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil,” he said on television, according to Israel Hayom. The West has launched an “all-out
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International
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — It is a question which I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was seeing a gentleman for a number of problems, including his marital difficulties. Despite the passage of the years, I still vividly remember
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Jewish Religion
By Sara Appel-Lennon DEL MAR, California — Former San Diego Padres catcher Brad Ausmus, 43, said he can walk in his Del Mar neighborhood without being recognized since he only played for the San Diego Padres for three years, from 1993-1996. “I’m just like anyone else. Works for me” said Ausmus. But Ausmus played in
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My most recent column, asking if Israel and the United States are friends, brought forth some of the nasty stuff that is known to exist, but is disturbing when it comes to light. Among the comments sent to the Jerusalem Post blog section “WE ARE NOT FRIENDS. Get it through
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Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — The Treehouse at the San Diego Botanic Garden here might have been called “The Leichtag Family Foundation’s Treehouse” but Rabbi Lenore Bohm says that wouldn’t have been in keeping with Toni Leichtag’s lack of pretentiousness. Instead, Bohm suggested, and fellow members of the
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