By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM—1714. That’s the number of days On Saturday, March 5, that Gilad Shalit, the kidnapped IDF soldier, has been in Hamas captivity and there’s no sign that his release is imminent or, for that matter, that he’s still alive. For all the precise intelligence that Israel is reported to have in
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Middle East
By Eileen Wingard LOS ANGELES–Zubin Mehta entered the stage with measured, regal stride, humbly acknowledging the audience’s tumultuous applause before mounting the podium, like a king ascending his throne. The Bombay-born musical monarch, now 75 years old, took up his baton, his royal scepter, and began leading his forces. The loyalty and love
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Eileen WingardBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–So soon after attending Saturday morning services to attend the bat mitzvah of a friend’s daughter, here I was back again at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, causing some congregants’ eyebrows to raise. The Friday night crowd is different from the Saturday morning congregation, and more so on those evenings when Erev
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionJERUSALEM (Press Release)– A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the spread of harmful bacteria in the body. Bacteria are known to communicate in nature primarily via the secretion and receipt of extracellular signalling molecules, said
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Science, Medicine, & EducationFair Play for Israel (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, November 25, 1955, Page 3 A recent letter, addressed to the editor of one of our local papers, made us wonder how many other Americans fail to understand the position of Israel, surrounded as she is by seven hostile Arab states, whose leaders have sworn to destroy
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The French and Russian revolutions gave rise to a rich literature about the stages of revolution. Not surprisingly, there is considerable argument about what happened in each stage, and when each revolution ended and a stable regime appeared. Truth be said, history never stops. There is always another stage in
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Ira SharkanskyNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the de facto freeze that has applied to Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem since the end of the official 10-month freeze last September. The existence of this unofficial freeze has been widely suspected
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –Visiting a journalism class Friday at Grossmont College, David Ogul, assistant metropolitan editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, told of the day he almost quit the staff of another newspaper after he read the letters-to-the-editor. It was back when he occupied a similar position for the Riverside Press-Enterprise,
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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the US have discovered the mechanism whereby dangerous mercury eventually finds its way into the fish we eat from the open seas and oceans. The researchers, Prof. Menachem Luria from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University and
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Ehud Barak isn’t a good politician. He almost admitted it in a lengthy television interview last Thursday. It’s difficult to imagine that history will ever forgive him for his role in breaking up the Labor Party that he was elected to lead. But when he justifies his continued presence in the
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Middle East
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This week at minyan I pointed out that Conservative siddurim offer two alternative prayers before the morning’s first kaddish. The second selection contains the traditional text: “May it be Your will, Adonai our God and God of our ancestors, that the Temple be restored in our day, and
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Jewish Religion
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every so often we do this – last time was March 27, 2006. In 1979, JINSA published a “quick reference guide” to the capabilities Israel brings to U.S.-Israel security cooperation. We review it periodically, revise it slightly and republish it when some people – including occasional Congressmen – seem
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — In Mother Words is a series of 20 vignettes about motherhood written by 14 authors and performed by three superb actresses and one excellent actor. The sketches are funny, poignant, spirited, instructive, often predictable, and sometimes overly gooey. But the fly in the Desitin is that you’ve seen many of
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Cynthia Citron
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Bonds for Israel Group Set Dec. 11 For Rally Southwestern Jewish Press, November 25, 1955, Page 1 With the stepping up of Arab hostility against the State of Israel it becomes increasingly important that this near East outpost of democracy remain strong. The San Diego Jewish Community recognizing
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