By Norman Greene LA JOLLA, California — No matter what else is discussed, “Iran is the main issue in the Middle East…everything else is irrelevant,” stated Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post before an audience of over 500 gathered at Congregation Beth El by the San Diego Chapter of Friends of the […]
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –JINSA has long expressed concern about military skills being transmitted by the U.S. to a Palestinian Authority military force while the Palestinian government remains openly hostile to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. The Israelis tell us, “The more they do against Hamas, the less we have to do.” The
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the Toy Story series of movies, toys wait for people to leave the room before they transform themselves into living, talking beings. But at the Comic-Con convention at the San Diego Convention Center, all such formalities are dispensed with. Toys become alive whether humans are present or
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The breaking of the glass at the end of a Jewish wedding was originally not greeted by cries of joy but rather with tears. This custom originates from a story in the Talmud. In the middle of sumptuous feast a rabbi stood up and threw an expensive goblet
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Jewish ReligionJERUSALEM (WJC, ADL)–The Israeli government has decided to postpone the adoption of a controversial law on conversion to Judaism that drew sharp criticism from Jews in the Diaspora. In a statement, a government spokesman Nir Hefetz said an agreement had been reached with liberal Jewish denominations that were opposed to the bill. The bill will
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Middle East, USARAMALLAH (WJC)–Organizers of a Palestinian music festival have prevented the music band Boney M to perform one of its greatest hits because the song refers to the exiled Jewish people’s yearning to return to the biblical land of Israel. Lead singer Maizie Williams said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing the 1970s hit
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Middle EastMADRID (WJC)–Three Spanish activists – two of which were aboard the controversial Gaza-bound aid flotilla raided by the Israeli Navy at the end of May – have filed a lawsuit in a Madrid court against Israel for alleged crimes against humanity. The 83-page document takes aim at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, six senior Cabinet ministers
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Let’s Laugh A Little (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, October 1, 1954, page 5 With the threat of war, the A, B and C of bombs hanging over our heads, juvenile problems, dope, and the massacre on the highways, it’s no wonder that America has lost its sense of
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Adventures in SD HistoryWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the following statement Thursday, July 22, in recognition of Egypt’s National Day: * On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the Egyptian people as you mark your National Day on July 23. This is an opportunity to celebrate
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Middle East, USABRUSSELS (WJC)–The foreign ministers of the 27 European Union member states are set to approve further sanctions against Iran over its uranium enrichment program, targeting the country’s energy, financial and transport sectors. The measures, to be adopted at a meeting next week, are to include a ban on investing in Iran’s oil and gas industries,
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Middle EastWOLFISHEIM, France (WJC)–More than two dozen graves were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery in Wolfisheim, in the eastern French region of Alsace. It was the second incident of its type in the area this year, authorities said. Twenty-seven graves, including those of children, were damaged and many headstones overturned and covered in profanities. The incident
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Travel and Food
VIENNA (WJC)–The Leopold Museum has settled a decade-long legal dispute over the restitution of a painting looted from a Jewish woman during the Nazi era. In order to keep the painting, the museum agreed to pay US$ 19 million to the estate of the late Lea Bondi Jaray and gave permission for it to be
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The sky is not falling. Today. After a week or so of panic following the encounter with the Turkish flotilla, nastiness from the peaks of the Turkish government, conventional censures from the United Nations and NGOs, and shrill comments of “We told you so” from J Street types, more conventional economics and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO–Earlier this month we celebrated our Independence Day. My thoughts brought me to the importance of American music, and the shameful neglect we have allowed music education to be. Part of this was stimulated by an article in the editorial section of the San Diego Union-Tribune by John M. Eger, on
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