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Hadar maintains wilderness trail in Sha’ar Hanegev

(Editor’s Note: The following article was written and photographed by Yaakov Shkolnik for the Jewish National Fund in Israel.  It features Ulla Hadar, a Ruhama resident and former correspondent for San Diego Jewish World.  In conjunction with the partnership between Sha’ar Hanegev Municipality (which includes Ruhama) and the Jewish Federation of San Diego, Hadar has […]

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A Ripple Effect for Remembrance and Hope

By Cheryl Rattner Price SAN DIEGO — Next week I am an invited guest representing The Butterfly Project attending Jewish Remembrance Week in Görlitz, Germany. I am honored, humbled and appropriately uncomfortable as I navigate between recognizing the grief associated with this remembrance, while also considering the creative act this global gathering of the families

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What local Jewish candidates are telling voters

From time to time, we’ll be checking the websites, Facebook pages, and news releases of local Jewish candidates to see what they are emphasizing to voters.  As they are competing in contests for federal, state, county, and city offices, it is natural that they address different kinds of issues. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Biking relieves stress for children facing rocket attacks

  By Ulla Hadar KIBBUTZ RUHAMA, Israel — Parents and children don’t always agree on everything, but on one subject in Sha’ar Hanegev, the municipality lying alongside the Gaza border, there is nearly unanimity.  Hearing sirens go off to warn of incoming rockets can be very stressful, whereas bicycling in nearby areas out of range

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Family of Israeli victim of school bus attack asks San Diegans to say ‘misheberach’ prayers

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO, April 9 — Daniel Viflich, the 16-year-old boy who was injured Thursday, April 7, on the Israeli  school bus that was hit by an anti-tank shell fired from the Gaza Strip, had been visiting his grandma at Kibbutz Ruhama and had gone on a ride with his grandma’s neighbor,

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Sha'ar Hanegev social workers win national award for excellence

By Ulla Hadar TEL AVIV -On the 8th of June during the nationwide conference of social workers from all over Israel, the national organization conferred the “Henrietta Szold 2010 Award of Excellence” on the Sha’ar Hanegev municipality social service workers, headed by Marva Meizeles. The committee’s citation said  “This team has in the last years

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