By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– I’ve believed for a long time that the greatest danger that the Jewish state is currently facing doesn’t come from the outer threat of Iranian nukes but from within, particularly from the continued expansion of the settlements. I thought I saw ample evidence of it when my wife and I spent
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Middle East
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Dear Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, Can you guys maybe start to leave Anne Frank out of your comedy routines? Okay, some of your fans are laughing, but I’m not: why did the Holocaust diarist become a subject for mirth? Yes, that Anne Frank, the teenage girl who
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Travel and Food
By David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The brilliance of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Prince Waleed and their clade really impresses me. Twenty years ago, they were subsidizing Rush Limbaugh and the neoconservatives to spread what’s become the core notion of today’s right. (Though it also crops up on the far-left!) The notion that assertions can trump facts.
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Wednesday morning, a day before Kofi Annan’s cease fire was scheduled to reach its final implementation in Syria, and a day after Syrian forces were supposed to withdraw from major population centers, I read on BBC’s Internet site that “Kofi Annan, says he has received assurances from Damascus that it
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International, Ira Sharkansky
By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — Melissa James Gibson’s new play This is on stage at The North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach through the end of the month. Gibson’s play revolves around the lives of four 30-something best friends who are in mid-life crisis but have problems articulating what they want for
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An intimate gathering of Navy officers, Holocaust survivors and an offical from the Los Angeles consulate of the Netherlands commemmorated the Holocaust at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Friday, April 13,with personal remembrances of Dutch and Polish victims. Held in the main auditorium of what also is
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Spirits droop these days—there are mass shootings, racial flare-ups, and governmental genocides in Syria and elsewhere. We live with a sense of vulnerability as the climate behaves capriciously. Less dangerous but still burdensome, we endure an endless political polarization here in America that drives the presidential campaign, which also
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — In a show of support for Councilmember Marti Emerald’s reelection, more than 60 Latino leaders and community members attended a rally on Thursday in City Heights. “I am extremely grateful for the support of the people from so many diverse neighborhoods and communities in District 9,” Emerald said. “I believe
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Stanley Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society since 1994, and long-time member of the Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties, has received the coveted Award of Distinction from the Congress of History. At the ceremony held in March at the at the Congress of History’s 47th Annual History Conference,
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Jewish History
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Cellist Julian Schwarz, an up and coming artist, was the featured soloist at the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s most recent program, performed April 1 at Ner Tamid Synagogue and April 3 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. After two years of study at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, the brilliant
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Eileen WingardSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Citing her strong commitment to fixing city schools and her track record as a law enforcement leader working collaboratively to stop youth violence, Azim Khamisa on Thursday, April 12, endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor of San Diego. Khamisa founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation after his son was murdered by a gang
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Travel and FoodBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– As everyone knows, Mike Wallace, son of Friedan Wallik, he of the Old Country, was a mensch. He was also a tough-talking TV reporter and an investigative sleuth who never gave up until he found what he wanted. The Brookline, Massachusetts boy who made good in America, died recently
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –My column on Jonathan Pollard has produced a larger number and more varied responses than is usual. Most support his release. Several accuse me of being hard hearted and distorting the record. One doubts the wisdom of relying on Wikipedia. One from a Jewish friend of long standing reports that there had
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — As George Zimmerman disappears now into the legal wilderness of white complicity and police reticence, and good people in Tulsa lay down their dead into the crypt of black marginality, this white man wonders how frightful it must still be to a black male in America. Friends
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