By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Here it is impossible to go to a public place in the evening without hearing a blessing on the Chanukah lights. Chabad has placed a large Chanukiah (9-armed menorah) in the most prominent of French Hill’s traffic circles, along with other efforts to make the festival more important than its ancient […]
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The ancient Near East has always been a good-old-boy’s club. Testosterum was (and still is) always in the air and especially in religion and culture; women, especially, lived politically marginal lives. That part of the world has hardly changed. Just look in the Middle East today;
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Jewish ReligionBy Yaacov Lapin WASHINGTON, D.C. (JINSA) — The Egyptian military’s weakening grip on power is the last obstacle standing in the way of an alliance between a Cairo under Islamist rule and the Hamas regime in Gaza. Two out of three phases in Egypt’s parliamentary elections are now complete, and the results are unequivocal. A
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Middle EastAllen Miliefsky of San Diego forwarded the link for this Chanukah gem by the Fountainheads. Happy Chanukah to all our readers!
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Personals Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 2 Welcome — Newcomers to San Diego from Memphis, Tenn., are Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Nuzie and their son, Stanley Allen, aged seven years. Dr. Nuzie, a neurologist, will share the offices of Dr. Harold Elden in La Mesa. We
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — U.S. Senator from Alaka Lisa Murkowski has joined a nationwide chorus to win a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Ray Mala, the handsome Alaska Native movie star said to be the film industry’s first non-white leading man. His mother was an Inupiat Eskimo and his
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON (JINSA) — Officially, our war in Iraq is now over. The Saddam loyalists, the Sunni insurgents, al Qaeda in Iraq, and the Shiite militants of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army were all defeated by the U.S.-led international coalition. Today, the relative calm is maintained by Iraq’s own security forces, trained primarily by Americans. In many
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Tanya Rosenblit, the 28-year old producer of Israel’s Channel One English news, has by now had more than the proverbial 15 minutes of fame. Boarding a bus one day last week from Ashdod to Jerusalemand dressed “modestly” even by Orthodox standards, she refused to yield to ultra-Orthodox (haredi) demands to sit
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –A recent installment of television news began with the outpouring of unrestrained wailing in response to the death of the “dear leader” of North Korea, a replay of the mournful voice, choked with tears announcing his death on North Korean television, and then commentary by a South Korean journalist and an
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World United Jewish Fund Plans For 23rd Annual Meeting Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Pages 1, 10 The Allocations Committee of the United Jewish Fund heads a series of Fund activities which include the plans for the twenty-third Annual Meeting, the nomination of directors to fill the vacancies caused
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Hanukkah, the little holiday that could, begins with the lighting of the first candle against the darkness tomorrow night. Year after year, the assessments begin and the questions accumulate: Is Hanukkah the Jewish Christmas? Which one came first and how are they related? (Of course, the real inquiry
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. — Admiral James G. Stavridis was presented by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs with the Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award on November 7th Admiral Stavridis is the NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Commander of U.S. European Command. His remarks on that occasion have just been released: To JINSA, thank you
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Fund Campaign Reaches $202,419 — 25% Increase Southwestern Jewish Press, September 21, 1956, Page 6 In keeping with the plans of the National United Jewish Appeal, the Fall and final plans of the 1956 United Jewish Fund Campaign began immediately following the day long observances of Yom Kippur,
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — This city is hosting a Jewish Film Festival this week. One of the movies shown on Sunday night was a documentary about Mordechai Richler. At one point he was mentioned together with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth as writers who helped us to emancipate ourselves from the ghetto mentality
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