By 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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** 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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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California–I came into this world a few months before Israel; we’re both 62. I’ve had a life thankful to the security in the United States for my and my immediate family who escaped Europe’s persecutions and murders, and the opportunities in the US. I’ve relied upon my exertions to give back
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Middle East, USA
By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—When Henrik Ibsen wrote Ghosts in 1881 it was labeled sensational. Not in a positive way however, but shockingly and indecently sensational according to all reports! What’s so shocking to today’s audiences, I’ll venture to say, is the way women were thought of back then way before any
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Congratulations Israel on 62 years of independence! This is an opportunity to celebrate all that Israel has accomplished and to reaffirm the bonds that unite our two nations – our strategic partnership, our shared values, and our common aspirations. You know, in 1948, it took President Truman only 11 minutes to recognize
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–This is the time of Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day. Appropriate to the season, I’ve received two e-mails with items that some may see as a bit too assertive for their taste. Yet they tell important elements of the Israeli narrative. It is not the whole story of the Middle East, but
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