By David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Mitt Willard Romney now informs us that he did pay taxes during the last ten years. Thus he attempts to staunch – despite his own refusal to provide proof in the form of tax returns – the assertion of critics like Democratic senator Harry Reid that Romney paid no taxes
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USA
-First in a series- Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — Unlike some Mexican cities along the U.S. border, such as Juarez, or Tijuana, where there have been outbreaks of violence between rival drug gangs, or between law enforcement officials and drug lords, Tecate is a quiet town which derives much of
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Donald H. Harrison
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario –Who can say but that Michael Glassman was destined to spot this license plate?
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Jewish Religion
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called cavalierly for the people of Aleppo to rise up against the Assad regime. When they did — as when President Bush (41) called on the Shi’ites and Kurds of Iraq to rise up against Saddam in 1991 — the U.S. declined to support the rebels, and
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –Tonight (Friday, Aug. 17) we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, which is the month immediately preceding Tishrei, whose first day is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The Rabbis wrote that the Hebrew letters that spell out Elul are an anagram for the
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–“Anybody but Peres” was the slogan in the Knesset when the Members were choosing between presidential candidates Shimon Peres and Moshe Katzav in 2000. Katzav received 63 votes to Peres’ 57. Some MKs who had promised their support to Peres voted for Katzav. Seven years later, it was clear that “Anybody but
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — You may have heard about Irv Gordon and the world-record mileage on his faithful 1966 Volvo P1800. The car is set to soon cross yet another milestone — 3 million miles on the speedometer! One man, one car, one dream. Irv made it into newspapers in 2007 and
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –“K’rachaim av al banim, kain Tirachem aleinu…” Like the mercy of a father on children, may You (G-d) have mercy upon us… [Liturgy] A little girl and her father were crossing a flimsy bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:”Sweetheart, please hold my
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Jewish Religion
By Candice Mervis TEL AVIV — Professor Daniel Chamovitz is the director of the Manna Centre for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University and author of What a Plant Knows, a detailed look into how plants sense and deal with their environments. Chamovitz grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a small mill town. He was the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
RICHMOND HILL, Canada — Michael Glassman spotted this license plate proof that even in Ontario province, Jews occasonally have tsuris.
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Jewish Religion
By Laurie Baron LA JOLLA, California — The San Diego Jewish Film Festival will kick off its 23rd year with a screening of Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story on Sunday, August 19 at 7:15 p.m. in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Garfield Theatre. This inspiring documentary directed by Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot chronicles Yonatan
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Lawrence BaronBy Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi delivered a severe blow to the Egyptian military’s political ambitions this week, and sent clear message to Egypt and beyond: his civilian Islamist government is now in charge. Taking advantage of widespread shock in Egypt over the brutal gunning down of 15 Egyptian soldiers by
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Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Irony I feel, is a very high form of morality. — JEAN STAFFORD This morning I received an email about how the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh turns to Israel when his family needs medical attention. I know of very few countries that live by the ethic
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East. By Chana Miller NEW YORK — A patient lies helpless in a hospital bed. His family surrounds him. The room is filled with tension. He has one chance to live. A bone marrow transplant can save his life but a genetic match is needed. In Petach Tikvah, Ezer Mizion’s International Jewish Bone Marrow Registry
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Science, Medicine, & Education