By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Witnesses said the 24-year old man on the scooter pulled up to the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, France. It was just before 8 a.m.—a new morning in the rustic community. Students were arriving for class, chatting, joking, and thinking of their sunrise prayers. Suddenly, the man began […]
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International
By David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The notion of gun-propelled launch goes back to Jules Verne. Such Mass Drivers have been envisioned in numerous Sci Fi tales, including Earthlight, by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Heart of the Comet by Benford & Brin. We’ve also seen them portrayed in
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Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis, San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Wednesday that retail giant, Walmart, was ordered to pay $2.1 million for overcharging customers and for violating a previous 2008 judgment. “Our Consumer Unit worked closely with the City Attorney and California
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Urology patients at Hadassah Medical Organization were the first to move on Monday into its new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Hadassah-Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. In subsequent weeks, patients from the Departments of Orthopedics, General Surgery, ENT, Plastic Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, OB/GYN and Vascular Surgery will be transferred. Toward the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — The funerals in Jerusalem on Wednesday for the four latest Jewish victims of Muslim terror were heart-wrenching. The unbridled pain of Miriam Monsonego’s brother; the wailing of the friends and relatives and the sobbing eulogy of Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar were hard to take, but tragically, not a
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO–Michael Naiman recently was looking through some old family albums when he came across a photo that his grandmother, Edith Naiman, had meticulously labeled. It was a photo of the B’nai B’rith Auxiliary taken on May 22, 1939. The auxiliary later became the Birdie Stodel Chapter of B’nai B’rith. The photo and its caption
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Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Silence is the policy of Israeli authorities with respect to the rebellion in Syria. Figuring out what is happening, and what is likely to happen is like deciphering reports and comments about Iran. Currently there seems to be a standoff, bloody in the extreme, between the regime and its opponents.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — On nearly any given weekday, the Main Quad at Grossmont College is a place where a student, faculty member or staff member might find entertainment, taste new foods, hear a speaker, or sample the wares of vendors, who have the choice of paying a fee
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– “There is no such thing as privacy anymore.” “There are no secrets anymore.” These are two complaints that are heard frequently nowadays. We live in a world of cell phones and e-mails, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. We have no privacy, for almost anyone can reach us wherever we are, whatever
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Jewish ReligionPARIS (Press Release)–StandWithUs France condemns High Representative of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, for her statement regarding the brutal, anti-Semitic murders of four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France on Monday. As France reels in horror at this attack, together with the global Jewish community and all people of conscience, High Representative
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International
MA’ALEH ADUMIM, Israel (Press Release)–Standing at two meters tall, Israel’s biggest book has been presented to the Ma’aleh Adumim community at a special event marking the close of this year’s seventh annual A.H.A.V.A English Read-a-thon. The event held at the Eshkol Hapayis (lottery granted community building) in Ma’aleh Adumim was attended by hundreds of schoolchildren
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Earlier this week, Israeli media headlined that “’Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decide to build nuclear weapon.” The story went on to say that “New York Times report quotes senior American officials who believe there is little disagreement between Israeli and U.S. intelligence over Iran’s nuclear program, despite
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — An English professor of mixed religious background has become a leading proponent of interdisciplinary studies not only at Grossmont College, where he teaches, but throughout San Diego’s higher education community. Tate Hurvitz, whose father is Jewish and mother is Lutheran, grew up in the San
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Though official spokespersons for Zionist organizations have largely given up on shlilat hagolah, the rejection of the Diaspora, some Israelis still take every opportunity to make declarations that seek to invalidate Jewish life outsideIsrael. Two such pronouncements that got media attention have been made in the last few days.
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Jewish Religion