By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The media pundits around the world and the diplomats in Israel and elsewhere who tried to tell Prime Minister Netanyahu what to say to Congress when he addresses both houses next month have labored in vain. In the end it’s Fatah and Hamas who’ll craft Bibi’s speech and their input
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The commotion, fighting, and death roiling through Arab countries is likely to produce several kinds of consequences. At the most extreme, it cannot be pleasant to be a Libyan or Syrian, wondering who will suffer from immediate attack or subsequent persecution. Who knows what kind of government will follow the upsets in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff UJF Campaign Opens Sunday, March 25; Senator Speaks on Israel as Israel Crisis Grows More Critical Southwestern Jewish Press, March 16, 1956, Page 1 United States Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota will be the honored guest and principal speaker at the Pace-Setters Dinner on Sunday evening, March
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By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — I’m willing to bet that many of you converted IRAs to Roth IRAs last year. And, because we’ve been told that 2011 and 2012 tax rates will remain the same as 2010 rates, most of you likely opted to pay the conversion tax over two years, starting in 2011.
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Sheryl RowlingBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — No one should claim that Barack Obama is a foreign policy sophisticate. His Nobel Peace Prize will keep historians busy speculating for generations. We might forgive his pledges to close Guantanamo and focus the American commitment in Afghanistan as electoral fluff, but Guantanamo is still active as his campaign for
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration says it may look for “targeted sanctions” on Junior Assad’s Syria, and “condemns” the violence there, but – hey, look guys, it isn’t Libya, for Pete’s sake. Asked the difference, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, “We had a Gaddafi regime that was moving against its
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International, Shoshana BryenBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The festival of Maimouna was brought to Israel by the Jews from Morocco. There’re several theories about its origin, none of which is convincing. But that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a national event in the country, celebrated by Jews from many different backgrounds. It starts the same evening as Pesach
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff The Red Cross and You (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, March 2, 1956, Page 7 All through the year, American people call upon the Red Cross for help. Once each year the Red Cross asks the people for support. This year, which marks the 75th anniversary of the founding
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Unlike Jesus, I don’t plan on a resurrection and I really don’t know for sure what happens after this life. And that suits me fine. It is this life, and doing some good works while here, that matters to me; don’t have much to say about any other
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It was only a week ago, wasn’t it, that I was rhapsodizing about the yellow wildflowers that had graced our back yard lawn? https://www.sdjewishworld.com/?p=16574 Our gardener evidently didn’t read my column. On Saturday, he mowed the lawn, transporting every single one of the wild flowers into his lawn
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Donald H. Harrison
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Center Tenth Annual Meeting: The Program of the Jewish Community Center Southwestern Jewish Press, March 2, 1956, Page 5 By Irving Mortin, Asst. Dir. J.C.C. The word Community in the Jewish Community Center has a great deal of meaning. The community is People; human beings, living
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — There’s a bit of a mystery regarding Syria. First, who is the opposition? Second, what will happen? Having been the first to warn about the threat and power of Islamists in Egypt, I think that’s earned me some credibility to say that Syria may well be a different case.
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Though I grew up in Sweden I never thought of its citizens as being particularly happy. In the 1940s and 50s we heard a lot about drunkenness and suicide but not much about life as bliss. Denmark, on the other hand struck us even then as a very happy place.
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Middle EastBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Today Syria has entered its biggest internal crisis since 1970. The regime has come out to crush the insurrection. Either it will succeed by killing many people or the insurrection will build into a real potential revolution. And the Western states are doing…precisely zero. One Syrian expert friend responded:
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