By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Why has President Barack Obama of the United States turned his back on President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt? There’s no shortage of speculations. For example: 1. Obama is a naïve idealist who believes that because the unrest in Egypt currently manifests itself as a popular rebellion of the young against the […]
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Travel and Food
By Joel A Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California—Israeli Lt. General (ret.) Dan Halutz at Sunday’s Yom Limmud, San Diego’s Jewish Community Day of Learning, quipped about his decision to join the Kadima Party in Israel: “In politics, you can be killed many times; in the military, only once.” This veteran and long-time member of the Israel’s Defense
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Middle East, San Diego County
By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, Caifornia — “They usually run the gamut from things that have family disruption to political themes to musical,” explained Joyce Axelrod in a phone interview about some of the plots in Shorts in Winter, a free San Diego Jewish Film Festival program on Monday, February 14 at Clairemont Reading
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Travel and Food
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –While the news bulletins are focusing on street demonstrations in Egypt, there are five crucial points that are not being adequately explained. Firstly, it is meaningless to discuss whether the Army is sympathetic to the rioters or not . Maybe some individual soldiers are sympathetic, but the fact is that the Egyptian
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Lloyd LevyBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)— “Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needs a miracle to survive the presidency,” according to Egypt expert, Yoram Meital, who is Chairman of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. However, he thinks that a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood should not be seen as a
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In the nothing is too ridiculous category, al-Safir, the left-wing, Syrian-backed, pro-Hizballah newspaper, that the New York Times is now using as a reliable source on Lebanese politics, has a scoop. According to the newspaper, an Israeli security agent paid a Palestinian $3000 to put a poison pill in
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Middle East, USA
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Regardless of what Emma Woodhouse does in the business of matchmaking, the fact that Patti Murin inhabits her body, makes the new Jane Austen’s “Emma A Musical Romantic Comedy” with lyrics and book by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun (“Bonnie and Clyde at the La
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Hearings Slated for Distribution of Funds Southwestern Jewish Press, September 30, 1955, Page 1 Organizations requesting allocations from the United Jewish Fund 1955 campaign have been invited to send representatives to an open hearing for the committee and members of the United Jewish Fund on Sunday, October 2, in the new State Ballroom of the
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — The U.S. government doesn’t play favorites, even when it should. Israel came out with a report under international auspices on the Mavi Marmara/Gaza flotilla incident that corresponds to the evidence. The Turkish government had a report for which there is no evidence, accusing Israel of massacring Turkish citizens even
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In the ghetto of old we used to receive every piece of news with the question, “Is it good for the Jews or is it bad for the Jews?” The modern version is, of course, “Is it good for Israel or is it bad for Israel?” The question is
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League has called on the U.S. government to “unambiguously declare” that it would veto a United Nations Security Council Resolution on the issue of settlements if it is presented to the council for a vote. The resolution, being promoted by the Palestinian Authority, is the latest step in an escalation
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — Those of you spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for your children’s college education, and paying taxes to support colleges, may be interested in a current brouhaha at my alma mater, Brooklyn College. A doctoral student, Kristofer Petersen, 1 ½ years into his studies, was hired
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Fire Possessed: Dona Gracia Nasi by Sandra K. Toro, Santa Fe, N.M.: Gaon Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935604-06-8, 209 pages, price not listed By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Set in 16th Century Europe, this historical novel recounts the battle of the House of Mendes, a Jewish shipping, banking and trading company, for safety from
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Donald H. HarrisonBEER SHEVA, Israel (Press Releasse)A new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers indicates that physicians who give second opinions may be influenced by the first opinion and other external factors. In the study, the researchers presented hypothetical scenarios with no clear cut clinical answers to a national sample of orthopedic surgeons and
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