By Evelyn Gordon WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took the rare step of publicly voicing concern over the fate of Palestinians living in Syria. About 300 (out of a population of over 500,000) have already been killed, PA officials said, and with some Palestinians supporting the Assad government while others
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–A dinner, program and special tribute to Gloria Penner for her ground-breaking contributions to the local media will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, as the Women’s History Museum of California celebrates San Diego’s “Broads of Broadcasting” (the women who broke through the barriers in the broadcast world of the
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San Diego Countywww.jns.org/news-briefs Report: Iran expands nuclear capacity underground (JNS.org) Iran has installed many more uranium enrichment machines in an underground bunker, potentially paving the way for a significant expansion of work the West fears is ultimately aimed at making nuclear bombs, Israel Hayom reported Thursday, citing diplomatic sources. The Islamic Republic denies allegations it is seeking a
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week’s parasha contains the famous verse, “Justice, justice, shall you pursue.” The Hebrew root for “justice” is tzedek. It is the foundation of many other Hebrew words such as tzedakah, charity. The linguistic connection between tzedek and tzedakah reminds us that in Judaism, helping others is not just a
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In all the noise coming out of the White House and key spots in other governments, it is hard to know what is serious, and what is meant to soothe an audience of greater or lesser importance. The latest mystery concerns a warning from Barack Obama himself against Syria’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
-Fourth in a Series– Photos and story by Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — Out by one of the swimming pools, he was eating a quesadilla while I was enjoying a vegetable-packed omelet with salsa, both typical foods of this region. However, the food that chef Rhagavan Iyer and I were talking about was matzo
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Donald H. Harrison
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– When the local English-language newspaper in Taiwan printed a story the other day datelined “Buenos Aires, Argentina” and focused on an Argentinian psychoanalyst named Andres Rascovsky, I just knew I had to send an email to the good doctor and ask him a few questions, Buenos Aires being
Editor’s Note: The following briefs were compiled by the JNS.org and are reprinted with permission on San Diego Jewish World : Israel urges Merkel to fight German circumcision ban The recent decision to file criminal charges against a German rabbi for presiding over a Jewish circumcision (brit) continues to reverberate across the world and Israel. A
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International
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — When the question is asked as to “which is the greatest symphony of them all?” classical music enthusiasts will name you their favorite, which could be one of several deserving masterpieces. But more often than not, the answer will be Ludwig Van Beethoven’s incomparable Symphony No. 9 in D
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–The University of California, San Diego on Thursday, Aug. 23, announced that Jerome and Miriam Katzin have endowed a $4 million fellowship fund to support graduate students. UC San Diego’s over 5,000 graduate students raise the caliber of the university’s work by advancing groundbreaking discoveries, driving innovation, and generating new
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If I’ve learned anything in a half-century of studying politics, it is that those who demand everything risk getting nothing. Currently there are two examples of major players who haven’t gotten that message. One is the Republican Party of the United States, which, according to reports, is likely to include
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — One problem is that too many extraneous people, agencies, synagogue officials, evangelicals, ambitious US office-seekers, Israeli legislators, and—in some cases—our own parents and grandparents, are telling us what to think. The other problem is that a generally small element of “the Jews” (a famously fractious and contentious people
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Middle East
Young Israel At 100: An American Response to the Challenge of Orthodox Living, 1912-2012; by Yaakov Kornreich, Joel Saibel, Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober; National Council of Young Israel, New York; ISBN 978-1-4751-5792-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 237 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — To believe that during most of its history, Judaism represented
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Gerald M. Steinberg/JNS.org RAMAT GAN, Israel (JNS) –Given Iran’s illicit drive for nuclear weapons and penchant for anti-Semitism and hatred, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon—who is going to Tehran for the Aug. 26 conference of the “non-aligned movement”—should have avoided the fate of former UN Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and stayed away from the
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