By 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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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 ReligionBy Yaakov Lappin ASHDOD, Israel — I had just parked my car in the Southern Israeli city of Ashdod, near where a Palestinian rocket had earlier smashed into a main street, when the air raid siren went off again. No matter how many times one has heard it, when the siren goes off
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Middle East
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The first things noticeable when entering the White Theatre at The Old Globe are the nautical accoutrements (Wilson Chin) of heavy ropes defining sections of Johnny-Priest’s Saloon, wooden planks of floor, heavy beams both stumped and tall, lots of coiled ropes, dim yellow lighting (Austin R. Smith), fog and
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Most people would be surprised to hear that the charge of drinking blood was a common accusation made against the nascent Christian religion in the first three centuries of its existence. Yes, this historical fact is true and recorded in the annals of ancient history.
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — “What is being done in Homs [Syria] . . . is simply appalling and shouldn’t be allowed to stand in our world,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron in Washington. The British, he said, are cataloguing “these crimes,” and Asad should “always remember that international law has got a long reach
If Syria, Egypt have zero to fear from U.S, why should Iran? Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced on Monday that legislation sponsored by her office and introduced by Assemblymember Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) that would prevent victims from being forced to pay spousal support to ex-husbands or wives who are convicted of violent sexual crime against them will be heard Tuesday, March 20,
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Travel and FoodBy David Brin == From the Transparency Front == Total Information Awareness? NSA (the National Security Agency) is building a mammoth electronic spy center in Utah. The $2 billion Utah Data Center, to be completed by Sept. 2013, will be five times
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