By Sam Ben-Meir Over 2 million Ukrainians have now become refugees – each one a part of the largest dispersal of Europeans across the continent in decades. Over 1,000 villages and towns are without water, electricity and heat, while medical supplies are rapidly dwindling – swelling a humanitarian crisis that is rapidly growing worse by […]
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International, Opinion, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
(JNS) Israel will host some 25,000 Ukrainian citizens until the danger in their home country passes, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said on Tuesday. Under the plan, Israel will grant the approximately 20,000 Ukrainians already in the country, most illegally, temporary protection from repatriation, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. In addition, Israel will
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International, Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded its 14th consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator – America’s leading independent charity evaluator. With rigorous evaluations, less than 1% of the thousands of charities evaluated are awarded this recognition continuously for more than a decade. “It is important that
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San Diego County
(JNS Wire) “We are at an inflection point in the way American Jews look at Israel,” remarked Peter Eckstein, VP, Jewish Education at Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, and graduate of the George Washington University’s Graduate Degree in Israel Education, offered in partnership with The iCenter. “We need to find new ways to engage
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by Reuters By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey and Israel will seek to overcome years of animosity and insults when their presidents meet for the first time in more than a decade this week, expanding a recent Turkish charm offensive with regional rivals. The two countries have traded accusations over Israel’s occupation of
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Middle East
By David Isaac (JNS) They fled a war zone with little more than the clothes on their backs. Less than two weeks later, they were greeted on the tarmac by the prime minister of Israel. The two events bookended an escape that took a group of 100 Jewish children from the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir
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International, Middle East
“The Hidden Saint,” by Mark Levenson; Level Best Books (February 2022); Paperback ISBN 978-1-68512-023-8, $17.95; eBook ISBN 978-1-68512-024-5, $5.95; 312 pages. By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The popular best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman is right to call The Hidden Saint “ingenious” and “compelling.” Many ancient Jews and non-Jews, as well as many
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Travel and Food
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week we begin a new book of the Torah, Sefer Vayikra, the book of Leviticus, and we read the Torah reading by the same name, Parashat Vayikra. In addition, this Shabbat we read from a second Sefer Torah since it is Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Memory, the Shabbat observed before Purim. The
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Karen Yaffe Lottes WASHINGTON GROVE, Maryland — Last week, the Russians bombed Babi Yar in Ukraine, a monument to the victims of the Holocaust. This seems the right moment to share portions of a letter my grandfather, Richard Yaffe, wrote in 1949 after visiting Auschwitz. My grandfather was a journalist and in 1949, between
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Holocaust, International, Opinion
A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel; New York: Atria Books © 2022; ISBN 9781982-181185; 317 pages; $17. SAN DIEGO – Many people have asked themselves if they had lived under the Hitler regime, and if they weren’t Jewish, would they have had the courage to protect a Jew, knowing if they were caught
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Seacrest Foundation’s Women’s Auxiliary presents the 44th annual gala on June 12, 2022. The Reunion Gala promises to be a joyful regathering to celebrate the strength and commitment of the Seacrest community of supporters. This special reunion will be held outdoors at a private residence and vineyard in Rancho Santa
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San Diego County
This is a sexually explicit novel set in Romania during the Holocaust. The protagonist, Daniela Mielstone, is 15 years old when the novel begins and still a teenager when the Holocaust ends. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — If you ever wanted to know who put the “fun” in dysfunctional, all hands point towards the North Coast Rep’s latest cast of The Homecoming. This offbeat, quirky, Pinter play is a hilarious romp from start to finish. Kudos to David Ellenstein for directing this British comedy, and
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — The war continues, at high intensity. Pictures of suffering refugees, more than a million getting to Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. Picking at bundles of donated clothing, and being fed soup and drinks. Severe shortages of food and medicines in Ukrainian cities. Heavy Russian shelling. Much destruction of homes.
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion