U.S. and Israel play chess with Iran strategy the prize

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — How bad are the relations between Israel and the United States? It’s a question in our headlines, reflecting the latest blips in the ongoing disagreement between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations about the need to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Things have not been all that good between Israel and Barack […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Taiwan’s ‘Last Supper’-inspired fresco features chopsticks

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — While Taiwan is mostly a Buddhist country, with many Taoist shrines and temples dotting the landscape, about five percent of the population is Christian, with a similar percentage of Muslims as well. On the island nation of 23 million souls, there are about 100 Jews living and working

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Feb. 8, 1957, Part 3

As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, February 8, 1957, Page 4 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant The Effect of Climate on Personality We are aware of many forces affecting personality, such as heredity, the family, the neighborhood, and health factors. It is true that all of these are influences which must not

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Rabbi tells why he is for Obama

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO—Editor Don Harrison of this publication asked me to write an article about why I signed up with Rabbis for Obama.  I’ve wanted to contemplate it for a while so that any attempt to respond would be based purely on positives.  The national campaign underway is already contaminated with enough negativity

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USA

JNS News Briefs: August 31, 2012

www.jns.org/news-briefs Romney, at GOP convention, slams Obama’s diplomatic Iran approach (JNS.org) Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressing the Republica National Convention on Aug. 30, said “every American is less secure today because [Obama] has failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat,” slamming a current White House approach that maintains there is still time for diplomacy and sanctions to

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International

The measures of honesty

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — During one early visit to Israel, Judy and I entered a coffee store to buy a pound of ground coffee. We watched in amazement as the proprietor held a paper bag under a chute, opened the door, closed it, and placed our coffee on his scale: it weighed

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Jewish Religion

‘Les Miserables’: an emotional three hours

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—If twenty-five years of sustainability for a Broadway show aren’t something to crow about, I don’t know what is. I can’t recall the very first time I saw Les Misérables, based on the Victor Hugo 1862 novel and put to music, on a grand scale, by Claude-Michael Schönberg with Herbert Kretzmer’s lyrics

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

High school Israel advocates to train at SDSU

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)- BlueStar, a San Francisco-based Israel Advocacy organization, has scheduled College Stay three-day retreats for high school students.  The weekend-long program was developed to help transform Jewish teens into powerful pro-Israel advocates, spokespeople and opinion leaders – before they encounter anti-Israel challenges at college. Teens will spend the weekend with current college students and get an inside

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