By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –With extraordinary economic problems and its public in a very bad mood, the Government of Greece seemed an unlikely hero in the saga of the Hamas-organized flotillas. But Greece is, indeed, the hero. While several countries – including the United States – denounced the idea of boats breaking legal Israeli-Egyptian […]
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By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – As the aroma of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the barbecues on the parking lot of Ner Tamid Synagogue in the early evening of July 4th, Rabbi Nadav Caine and congregational president Mitchell Freedman, each in turn, contemplated how American ideals reflect those articulated in Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — At the beginning of the twentieth century the whole of Europe was in a state of flux. New ideas and new ideals were making themselves felt and the youth were bent on changing the old and ringing in the new. All doctrines and philosophies were the rage
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Years of waiting–though leaks have been plentiful–have just about ended with the word from the international tribunal that four Hizballah officials, including the group’s deputy military commander Mustafa Badreddine were involved in killing Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Yet Hizballah is now the leading force
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release) — Thirty-four Americans and four crew members are in Athens set to sail on the American-flagged ship The Audacity of Hope. The ship is part of the “Freedom Flotilla II,” an international flotilla organized to violate Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid. StandWithUs, an international
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Now there is proof: Voting in elections is stressful, even to a point that it causes hormonal changes among voters. This new study, conducted by scholars from the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, has found that the level of cortisol – a hormone released when a person is under pressure
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Betrothal Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 2 Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Recht announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucille, to Donald Goldman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Goldman, on June 15. Donald attended San Diego Jr. College and is currently attending Calif. State Polytechnic College
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By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — “I’ve told you everything and now you know too much, so I’m going to have to kill you.” This, in a nutshell, is the plot of Shem Bitterman’s new play, A Death in Colombia. To tell more would be telling too much. But let’s give it a
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Cynthia CitronBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sometimes, we have to distinguish between goals and tactics. A case in point: A member of our Jewish community is justifiably outraged by the campaign to ban circumcisions as inhumane, and is particularly up-in-arms by a cartoon book depicting mohels as blood-thirsty, bearded torturers – caricatures reminiscent of
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA , Israel — In a major new development an Islamic force has arisen to challenge the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and support a more moderate regime in that country. This is a surprising opponent but the only one that could be of significance: al-Azhar University. Why is Egypt’s Islamic establishment taking on
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM– A chance encounter led me to the offices of IMPACT, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, where I was able to learn about their work and see for myself the fruits of their labour from its acting director, educational counselor Shelley Elkayam. Situated in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–In the last 65 years, a dozen U.S. presidents, Democrats and Republicans and more than a dozen Israeli Prime Ministers from the Left and from the Right repeatedly offered substantive concessions to the Arabs in order to reach a modus vivendi for a peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews
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HAIFA (Press Release)–Exceptional detective-archaeological work at the first season of archaeological digs at Tel Shikmona, on the southern edge of Israel’s city of Haifa, has uncovered the remains of a house dating back to the period of the Kingdom of Israel. The site was excavated about 40 years ago and due to neglect and layers of
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Senator Barbara Boxer WASHINGTON, D.C. –On the Fourth of July, we celebrate not only America’s birthday but also the birth of our nation’s founding ideals as set forth in the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met to approve Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary statement “that all men are created equal,
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