HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Five American students from Elon University in South Carolina who had just arrived in Cairo on an international student exchange program, escaped the riots in Egypt to safety at the University of Haifa. “Until just a few days ago, I never thought I’d find myself in Israel. Now I am happy to […]
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–The more time adolescent girls spend in front of Facebook, the more their chances of developing a negative body image and various eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and exaggerated dieting. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. Eating disorders include a wide spectrum of abnormal
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Travel and Food
(Column 16, February 7, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison ____________________ Spotlight: Debra Kamin ____________________ The former editor of San Diego Jewish Journal, Debra Kamin, is preparing to make aliyah to Israel, where she will become a member of the staff of the Jerusalem Post. She writes: “I’ve always wanted to live in Israel,
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Donald H. Harrison
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — For three nights, during our visit to Israel last December, my daughter Harriet, son-in-law Danny and I were guests in the Kfar Saba duplex apartment of Er’ella and Yoav Talmi. Our friendship, dating back to Yoav’s years as Music Director of the San Diego Symphony, prompted the wonderful home hospitality.
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Eileen Wingard
Peace in the Making: the Menachem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence, edited by Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, Gefen Publishing House, 2011, ISBN 978-9656-229-456-2, 349 pages including appendices and footnotes, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It is hard not to feel wistful while reading this correspondence, which began with such hope, and then became
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Donald H. Harrison
Born To Fly, 2009, 67 min. Hebrew, French, & English with English subtitles throughout. Directed by Uri Borreda, Produced by Yaakov Shem Tov, Uri Borreda. By Yiftach Levy SANTEE, California –In the mid-1960s, Danny Shapira, already Israel’s most accomplished military test pilot, had a special flightsuit custom-sewn for him so he could fly an experimental
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff For Your Pleasure Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman Success Story – A man who has the nerve to try his wings, without knowing for certain whether he will fly or fall, is always a hero to his friends when he makes good.
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — There are people–many in the media and academia–who literally go bananas if anyone criticizes President Barack Obama. They maintain that he is doing just a great job as if this is beyond any of rational discussion. And yet what has happened in the Middle East in the
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Middle East, USA
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m totally unqualified to assess the merits of General Yoav Galant, whose appointment as the next chief of staff of the IDF has just been revoked, and those of General Benny Gantz who’ll now get the job. And it may very well be that,
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–If there is anything worse than trying to manage someone else’s politics, it is trying to micro-manage them. The latest from the New York Times indicates that the American government is again putting its reputation on the line. Not only are its chief honchos telling the Egyptians what they must be doing,
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Ira SharkanskyBy Lloyd Levy LONDON –Events in Egypt highlight what seems to my mind to be the incomprehensible naivete of the U.S. Administration in its Middle East policy. The Egyptian Government has been the object of a well planned coup , using the very modern and ingenious method of stage managing a “revolution,” in a large
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Lloyd Levy
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Pledge Payments Needed Now To Help Save North African Jews Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 1 $12,500 was forwarded to the United Jewish Appeal this week. The United Jewish Fund Board of Directors issues an urgent appeal for contributors to pay their pledges immediately so that
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County
By Norman Greene SAN DIEGO — It only takes a momentary impulse, a quick decision or a chance meeting to change–or ruin–a person’s life. This could well be the premise of Bride Flight, the 21st Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival movie chosen this year to honor the memory of Marla Bennett who made the
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — What do Stephen Sondheim, Franco Zeffirelli, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Charles Gounod have in common? They have all created popular works in their own time based on William Shakespeare’s end-of-the 16th century play, Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare’s own time, however, the prolific Spanish playwright Lope
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Cynthia Citron