U.S. condemns Syrian transfer of missiles to Hezballah

WASHINGTON, 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

San Diego historic places: Three padres of Mission San Diego

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. Harrison

Rooms of the Heart: The bridge between Yom HaShoah and Yom Hazikaron

   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

World should recognize Lebanon as state sponsor of terrorism

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, USA

'Secret Lives of Games' will be featured at Museum of Man

   SAN 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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Hebrew Day student honored by Legislature for her essay on Survivor Gussie Zaks

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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Is Obama scapegoating Israel to cover his Iran failures?

By 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

Ibsen’s ‘Ghost House’ a perfect fit for North Coast Rep

  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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