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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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
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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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyLONDON (WJC)–At an event organized by the Community Security Trust of the British Jewish community, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has given a message of support for Israel. He told a dinner that after more than 100 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza in one year, the country within its right to search
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Travel and Food
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — This is of gigantic importance (see if anyone else covers it). MEMRI has pointed out the opening of a Muslim Brotherhood campaign to replace Egypt’s current clerical hierarchy with its own people. If that happens…you can imagine. Once Islamists are in place making the “official” decisions on what constitutes
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Middle EastKAMPALA, Uganda (Press Release)–At the behest of his Jewish, Muslim and Christian supporters, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, a native of Uganda, is peacefully challenging the official results in the election to national parliament. The frontrunner leading up to the election, Rabbi Sizomu lost in the official count to the opponent Yahaya Gudoi the candidate from the
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the establishment of a Palestinian governing authority in 2003, the United States has provided it with more than $3.5 billion in aid, more than $2 billion since 2007 to “strengthen” Abu Mazen after the ouster of Fatah from Gaza. The 2010 figure was $500 million. The intrepid investigators
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It’s happened again. Within a day of the Prime Minister Netanyahu talking about pursuing a temporary solution for Israel and Palestine, the leader of the Palestine Authority has rejected the idea. So much for negotiations. The history of rejection goes back a long way, with a prominent landmark being the Khartoum Declaration
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
(Column 23, March 3, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors UCSD Political Science Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff lecturing March 14 at 7:00 pm at the library at 1776 Dove Lane in Carlsbad. His lecture is titled, “Turmoil in the Middle East: Democracy
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California–In my previous articles, I wrote about the “structural endemic obstacles” that plague our system of government and lead to immobilism and, even, to paralysis. In this analysis I concentrate on a very disturbing flaw in our political discourse that makes the decision-making process a herculean task. I am
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USAMANCHESTER, England (WJC) — The Islamist Hamas has said it would stop the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from teaching Palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust. The history of the Shah is set to become part of a human rights curriculum in Gaza schools run by the UNRWA. These schools are attended
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Travel and FoodLONDON (WJC)–The founder of the controversial internet platform ‘WikiLeaks’, Julian Assange, has accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, to deprive him of funds by Jewish donors. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made to the magazine’s editor two
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Travel and FoodBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — There is a very simple answer to an apparent contradiction about evaluating the current “Arab revolt.” If we look at the situation as a whole, there are reasons to think that many events of the last two months have been positive. Clearly, the resurgence of active opposition in Iran
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Middle East