By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Several days of uncertainty. Netanyahu could not form a government, with his deadline approaching. He had 42 days to do it. A conflict between Lieberman and the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) seemed at the heart of the problem. Principally a matter of enforced enlistment, and punishment of Yishivot whose students did not […]
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By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — Little Shop of Horrors first appeared in 1960 as a campy horror movie beside such titles as The Blob, Plan 9 from Outer Space and I Was a Teenage Vampire. Relegated to dusty cans and the Late Late Show, it was given new life as a rockin’
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – “From generation to generation” is a popular saying among Jews to indicate how Torah learning has been passed down from parent to child through the millennia. At Congregation Adat Yeshurun on Sunday night, the saying was happily augmented with another:
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Donald H. Harrison, Jacob Kamaras, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In an effort to goad Mexico into taking more action against Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States southern border, President Trump has announced that he will begin implementing tariffs on Mexican goods in the coming weeks and months. There is a long history
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International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Sufi Mediterranean Cuisine, 5915 Balboa Ave. San Diego, California 92111 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — I was in the Convoy area for an appointment and met my dad for lunch. Since we’re still trying to “eat around the world” we picked a Persian restaurant for our outing. Sufi bills itself as a Mediterranean restaurant,
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — My daughter Judith and I had tickets for the North Coast Rep on Sunday afternoon to see A Walk in the Woods with David Ellenstein, and J.Todd Adams. We arrived at the theater in plenty of time to pick up our tickets , get seated and
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Every year, the Jewish Community of San Diego comes together to celebrate Israel around Yom Ha’Atzma’ut (Israel’s Independence Day) and Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). Piggy backing on the Festival is the Friendship Walk, the annual fundraiser for the Friendship Circle. I was part of both. The Friendship Circle
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Eric George Tauber, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – At the San Diego County Fair on Sunday, June 2, I was reminded of three Jewish entertainment figures who were instrumental to the making of the celebrated movie, The Wizard of Oz, which because of its San Diego connections provides the theme for this year’s fair.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Lawrence Krause ENCINITAS, California — It would no doubt require a leap of faith but suppose there was a political leader of Gaza who was only interested in the well-being of the residents of Gaza. He might recognize that Gaza has the potential of being a very prosperous place. The model is Singapore which
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) released on Sunday, June 2, its first-ever concurrent surveys of the attitudes of Jews in France, Israel, and the United States, the three largest Jewish communities in the world. “Some commonalities among American, French, and Israeli Jewry, comprising the great majority of world Jewry, are
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Whether one agrees with Michael Shapiro’s listings in his 1995 book The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of all Time or not, the book should make us think not only whether we would agree with his selections, whether we would delete
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Dictionaries offer many meanings of the word “sinister.” They include: threatening, ominous, bad, evil, base and disastrous. Also: of or on the left side, left, which is the original meaning of the term. When Prime Minister Netanyahu and his entourage describe a political opponent as “smolani.” (שמאלני, literally: on
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