By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES – Phillip Gellburg keeps insisting that he worships and adores his wife Sylvia, yet he hasn’t made love to her in more than 20 years. “You gradually give up and it closes over you like a grave,” he says. Further, he hates the fact that he is Jewish and devotes himself to “passing” for Gentile, yet he asserts, […]
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Cynthia CitronNEW YORK (Press Release)– One hundred exemplary North American college graduates will be chosen to teach in underprivileged communities in Israel for a 10-month service program in May 2011, Masa Israel Journey announced today. In order to address Israel’s educational inequity and the widespread underperformance of youth in low-income communities, Masa Israel Journey and the Israeli Ministry
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel is exciting for many reasons. One of them is that at any given moment and in the most unlikely situations you can find the worst and the best strangely coexisting. The Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel Aviv is an example. Because of the Oscar two American film makers
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Even those of us who don’t think much of Ehud Barak as a politician have high regard for his military skills and knowledge of the strategic situation. Therefore, when he says, as he did to Israel Radio recently, that Syria is signaling that it might be willing to resume peace
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Travel and Food
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — If you ask anyone at this time of the year in the Sha’ar Hanegev area what the word Red brings to mind, you will get two answers. Here our spring is extremely short. It’s really a brief cross over from Winter to Summer. In February March
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Travel and FoodLOS ANGELES (Press Release)– “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) campaigners will be in for a surprise when they mount their seventh annual hate fest this spring. Pro-Israel students on campuses are ready for them. Over the past year, StandWithUs campus coordinators have worked closely with students to brainstorm about the responses that would be most effective
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USALONDON (Press Release)–Foreign Affairs Shadow Minister Stephen Twigg joined OneVoice on Monday for an event at the House of Commons to explore whether people power has been the missing element in delivering a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. Parliamentarians and concerned citizens alike packed the Wilson Room, at Portcullis House, to firsthand witness the
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Middle East
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — As I have predicted, Amr Moussa, former Egyptian foreign minister and Arab League head, has declared his candidacy for president of Egypt. I’d bet he is the most likely to be elected, as a nationalist and “anti-Islamist” candidate. While very possibly the best alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Muhammad
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The years have turned over and suddenly you are fifteen and eighteen years old—a young man with a 4G phone and a young woman with a car. You have never known anything but wireless and mobility. You are living in interesting times, dear children. You have seen our
(Col. 22, Feb. 28, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Simchas When Allison Ogul became a bat mitzvah over the weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the congregation led by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal welcomed many non-Jewish visitors, including relatives of her mother, Sharon Wilson-Ogul. They also came from the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune, where
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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiNEW YORK (WJC)–The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) has sent a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro appealing for the release of Jewish aid worker Alan Gross, 61, who has been held in a Cuban jail since December 2009 and now charged with “crimes against the state.” His trial is to
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Travel and FoodTEHRAN (WJC)–Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval training, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Saturday, after two Iranian warships docked in a Syrian port. “The two parties will cooperate with each other in training issues and the exchange of personnel,” IRNA quoted the agreement, signed by the commanders of both navies,
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Travel and FoodEDINBURGH, Scotland (WJC)–Education Minister Angela Constance announced the Scottish Government would pay to ensure two students from every secondary school could take part in the Lessons from Auschwitz Project, which is run by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). The four-part course involves a day-trip to Auschwitz. Pupils are given a tour of the death camp
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Among the lessons we can tentatively parse from the current commotion in Muslim countries are possible clarifications about the murky overlap between international law and international politics. Notice the extreme lack of certainty, suitable for any discussion of international law and politics. Much more than domestic law in well ordered countries,
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