ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am and Temple Solel will host a traditional Lag B’Omer Bonfire at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. Please join the congregations for bonfire, kosher BBQ, beach and buddies on May 2 from 4pm-6pm. There is no charge for this event, but reservations are appreciated. Please bring your own blankets and beach […]
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Travel and Food
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, April 20–Today, modern Israel’s 62nd birthday, is a good time to ask the question, “What if there wasn’t an Israel, would things be different in the Middle East?” The world would still be dealing with and suffering from MidEast extremists: First of the Soviet proxies, but without Israeli intelligence penetrating them
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The following statement was issued on Tuesday by Gordon Duguid, deputy spokesperson for the U.S. State Department: “The most senior Syrian diplomat present in Washington today , Deputy Chief of Mission Zouheir Jabbour, was summoned to the Department of State to review Syria’s provocative behavior concerning the potential transfer of arms to Hizballah. This
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Three Franciscan Padres whose lives are celebrated at Mission San Diego are Father Junipero Serra, who founded this mission and eight others, Fermin Lasuen, who succeeded Serra as president of the missions and founded nine more, and Luis Jayme (also spelled Jaime), who is remembered as the first Christian martyr
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–National holidays are occasions for reflection. The linkage of Memorial Day and Independence Day was designed to focus on the miseries and hopes of being Jewish and Israeli, so there should be no surprise that they work on our emotions, this year as in the past. Memorial Day is heart wrenching stories of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Toby Klein Greenwald GUSH ETZION, Israel — In his official Memorial Day speech at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described how, as a young soldier, two of his fellow soldiers, 19 years old, were killed during a lethal military operation, and how one of them, David Ben Hamu, died in
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Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Jewish Agency for Israel held a special ceremony on Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers Monday (April 19) to honor the memory of Diaspora Jews murdered in terrorist and anti-Semitic attacks abroad, as well as Jewish Agency emissaries killed while serving abroad. Lighting this year’s torch in memory of the fallen was
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Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — General Petraeus’s widely remarked-upon but little-read testimony before Congress made note of: “Ungoverned, poorly governed and alternatively governed spaces. Weak civil and security institutions and the inability of certain governments in the region to exert full control over their territories and conditions that insurgent groups can exploit to create
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – EL AL Airlines recently announced the re-naming of an EL AL Boeing 767 aircraft Daliat El Carmel in honor of the largest Druze community in Israel in time for Israel Independence Day. As part of Israel’s holiday celebration, this aircraft has been selected to participate in an EL AL fly-over covering Acco,
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Starting June 11, the Museum of Man is getting serious about playing. Their new exhibit, Counter Cultures: The Secret Lives of Games will feature games from around the world that will give visitors insight into various cultures, in addition to American favorites that have surprising origins. (Chutes and Ladders, for example,
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San Diego Calendar
RANCHO SANTA FE, California (Press Release)–Edith Lee Taylor, a renowned philanthropist, supporter of the arts and leader in advancing psychiatric care, in the company of her family on April 17, died at 83 years old of complications of a stroke in a hospital near her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California. She was born to
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Middle East
SACRAMENTO (Press Release)– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School 7th student Celia Benchetrit was an honoree Monday at the state capital for her essay (printed below) on Holocaust survivor Gussie Zaks. The essay on Zaks, who lives today in San Diego, is printed in a book that was presented at the annual Holocaust Memorial Project
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USA
** By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Visitors will encounter the images of numerous saints at Mission San Diego, but the most prominent in the mission’s own history and traditions are San Jose, San Francisco, and San Diego—known in English as St. Joseph, St. Francis and St. Didacus. Roman Catholics revere Joseph as
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–According to The New York Times, “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability.” A journalist wrote to JINSA, “It seems
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA