Report From Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Pages 1, 4 By Albert A. Hutler Executive Director, United Jewish Fund, San Diego JERUSALEM – Israel is a paradox. This is a nation under siege, but at first glance it seems to be anything but that. At first glance Israel seems to be a nation […]
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It would be an extreme rejection of what is politically correct to claim that the Palestinians are not a people. Palestinian intellectuals expressed a sense of nationhood about a century ago. Most governments of the world are willing to grant them statehood. Doubters may point to the incomplete process of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI, Taiwan — Word order matters, especially with Taiwanese names when written or pronounced in English in the US or Europe. While Washington Nationals pitcher Wang Chien-ming (王建民) is a famous name among US baseball fans, both the Washington Post and the New York Times now spell his name “Chien-ming Wang.” US
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison VICTORIA, British Columbia – They say we can never go back again, certainly not back to those years of refinement marking the transition from the late 19th to the early 20th century. But “they” are wrong, as they so often are. You can go back, to a time of refinement, serenity,
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Donald H. HarrisonSDJW staff report SAN DIEGO — Gail Feinstein Forman, 64, an author and educator who wrote frequently for San Diego Jewish World about movies, books and a variety of other subjects, died July 29 at her home following a battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Jack Forman, and brother Mark Feinstein. “I
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San Diego County
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — One is hesitant to even remotely capitalize on someone else’s grief. This is hardly the intent here; rather, a desire to share something that informs my life. Beyond that, it haunts me and I sense that it is just at the cusp of a deeper, national impulse of
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USA
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A wise man once wrote: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em Know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away Know when to run.” His sage advice and lyrical advice came to mind this summer. I attended a lecture by a very well respected professor. He
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will present the season kick-off event, The Power of Hope, on Sun., August 21, beginning at 6:15
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San Diego Calendar
By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Political betting in Washington is that President Obama is preparing to demand that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad step down. After the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Omanis – those bastions of human rights and civil liberties – withdrew their ambassadors from Damascus. After five months of brutal repression
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Shoshana Bryen
By Donald H. Harrison SAN FRANCISCO – In previous articles in this West Coast travel and sightseeing series, I have described visits to such Bay Area attractions as Alcatraz, the presidential yacht USS Potomac, the California Academy of Sciences, the Jewish Contemporary Museum, and the Wells Fargo Museum. Before taking leave of San Francisco,
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Community Foundation has elected three new prominent community members to join its Board of Directors. Marc Channick, Luis Maizel and Brian Miller are widely respected members of the business community and have distinguished themselves as leaders in the non-profit sector. Their three-year terms began on July 1, 2011 and all
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San Diego Calendar
By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California– The month-old painful spectacle of Washington partners-in-government fighting each other on “raising the debt limit,”something that should have never occurred in the first place, has strengthened my belief, expressed in a previous column, that the system as presently constituted is broke and, as a result, we have a dysfunctional
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USABy Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Having written that “the mission” is what counts when sending American soldiers to protect, to fight and sometimes to die on our behalf, readers challenged us to define the mission in Afghanistan. We tried. Going back to the beginning of the Obama administration, we looked at what the
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Gary Rotto Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — I really miss my daughter. She comes home today from her first overnight camp experience – with Camp Mountain Chai. I have to admit, I didn’t go to overnight camp as a kid – with the exception of a one week basketball camp. It wasn’t until I
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