By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — San Diego is becoming a multicultural city more and more. The Asian and Hispanic populations are growing at a faster rate than the white. When I gave the commencement speech at the University of California, San Diego a few years ago, I was impressed with the large percentage […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAPHILADELPHIA (Press Release) — The following is a statement of the board of directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East in support of UCSD Professor Shlomo Dubnov: We are the members of the board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass-roots community of more than 50,000 academics on 4,000 campuses all
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San Diego County
By Rabbi Ben Kamin TEL AVIV—They were two anonymous young people born in the British mandate of Palestine about twenty years before the British quit and the UN unsuccessfully partitioned the territory into two projected states. They were among just several thousand faceless heroes that created the State of Israel and miraculously fought a regional
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Jewish Religion
Torah Tapestries: Shemos by Shira Smiles, Feldheim Publishers, 2012, Jerusalem, ISBN 978-159826-002-1, Price Unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Jewish educator Shira Smiles utilizes the various parashot from the Book of Exodus to pass on wonderful lessons for daily living, while teaching some useful Hebrew vocabulary. For example, in analyzing the portion known as Va’eira, she
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In a speech before the Knesset, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu compared himself to David Ben Gurion, who declared Israel’s independence in 1948 against the urging of foreign governments, and to Menachem Begin, who decided to attack the Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981, against the advice of the United States. To
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Barely eight months have passed since the “Arab Spring” has taken root in Egypt. At the time of his departure from power, President Obama and Hillary Clinton hailed Hosni Mubarak’s eviction from office as one of President Obama’s crowning achievements. Nearly eight months later, the Muslim Brotherhood
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As a youth, Gil Ya’ari, the new Israeli director of the partnership between Sha’ar Hanegev and the San Diego Jewish community, was so fascinated by environmental science that he left his home in the greater Tel Aviv area to board at a high school which offered special classes
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Mayoral Candidate Bonnie Dumanis on Wednesday released a detailed business plan she said was designed to raise the standard of operational excellence, increase efficiency and save taxpayer dollars at City of San Diego. The Transparency, Excellence, Accountability and Monitoring (TEAM) System is an adapted version of the General Management System (GMS) currently
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Travel and FoodBy Peter Huessy WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence conclusively indicating that Iran is hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons, many former and current officials in Washington continue to urge the Administration to use the lever of diplomacy to convince Tehran to “negotiate” a deal without conceding that Iran seeks to possess nuclear
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USA
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — We were walking down the long airport corridor on the way to the boarding gate. Somehow, it seems that whenever my wife and I have a flight to catch, anywhere, our gate is always at the farthest end of the long hall. We had plenty of time
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –The last few days of the rocket barrage from Gaza into Israel’s south is naturally grabbing the headlines here. If you live out of the ever increasing rocket range it’s tempting to say that, after all, Israel hasn’t suffered too much from them. Yes, there have been injuries and damage
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Middle EastBy Jenn Sanders SAN DIEGO–The Hillcrest Town Council voted 24-3 on Tuesday evening, March 13, to recommend to the San Diego City Council that Blaine Street be renamed as Harvey Milk Street after the gay San Francisco City-County supervisor who was slain along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by former supervisor Dan
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — When the witty and always insightful Jewish-American writer Jonathan Rauch — who writes for the National Journal and the Atlantic, in addition to a host of books about his travels in Japan and life as a gay man — wrote in a 2003 Atlantic article about introverts and
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Travel and Food
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — This is a Jewish story with a Taiwanese twist. It’s really an American story, but this American reporter is reporting it from across the seas in Taiwan. You see, a certain woman named Mrs. Wandy Wang Druss was born in Chiayi in southern Taiwan and moved to
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USA