By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — ‘Anybody but Obama’ is a tempting, but risky thought as one approaches a decision about voting. My Israeli and American heads contribute to this column as some call for the upcoming U.S. Midterm elections to be a referendum on Barack Obama. At this point, some of my American friends will […]
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK– Israel’s government recently approved an amendment to its citizenship law by which those seeking to become naturalized citizens will take an oath of allegiance to Israel “as a Jewish and democratic state.” Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ and Arab regimes profess to be outraged. Abbas
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The San Diego Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF) announced that it has grown to 100 members and installed Jennifer Levitt as its fifth chair. Levitt follows in the footsteps of founding chair, Jan Tuttleman, as well as Betty Byrnes, Marcia Hazan and Elaine Galinson. Established in 2004, the Jewish Women’s Foundation
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Bruce Kesler LA JOLLA, California –Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center in Israel, told the San Diego Israel Coalition on Thursday, Oct. 14, that Israel is in its strongest position in decades. The SDIC, with about 600 Jewish and Christian members, near packed the large auditorium in La Jolla. Rubin’s
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International, Middle East, USA
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Broadway/San Diego’s Burn The Floor will only be at the Civic Theatre for a short while longer. That’s a shame. It’ s a dance enthusiast’s paradise watching the company move at incredible speed with impeccable precision and style. Burn the Floor is dubbed an international ballroom dance extravaganza. It includes
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Releaase) – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner announced that the President has signed H.R. 3219 into law. The Veterans’ Benefits Act of 2010 improves and modernizes certain benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans and their families. Filner said, “This new law is the result of numerous
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USA
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The Lord said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your native land and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” (Gen. 12:1) There is a general consensus among rabbinic sources that God’s command to Abraham to leave his family and all that he knew in
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Jewish Religion
NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL, the national airline of Israel, and “Bears from Bergenfield” have reached a milestone in its effort to send 100,000 teddy bears to Israel as part of a six-year-long charity project. Upon arrival in Israel, the 100,000 soft and cuddly teddy bears have been delivered to sick children in hospitals
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Richard D. Barton, a partner in the law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, has been appointed by Mark Yudof, University of California President, to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion. The Council is comprised of 18 community representatives and
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Avraham grew up in a world where the norm was idolotry. His father was a card carrying idolator. That was the family business. But Avraham, through his penetrating insight and honest analysis, realized that this norm was wrong. Despite the social mores, despite fierce, even violent resistance he held on
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO — Our guess is that the dueling television commercials pitting Meg Whitman against Jerry Brown and Carly Fiorina against Barbara Boxer for California governor and U.S. Senator respectively have made almost everybody wish that the Nov. 2nd election would have come and gone already – if only to quiet all this quarreling.
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — In remarks at a dinner where he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his stalwart support of Israel and his commitment to promoting respect and speaking out against anti-Semitism, media magnate K. Rupert Murdoch described in stark terms what he sees as an “ongoing war against the Jews” and
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USA
Son of Hamas, by Mosab Hasan Yousef with Ron Brackin, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 264 pages, 2010. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Human beings are complicated and because of this, life is interesting. If you are raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, grow up in an Orthodox community, go to Orthodox religious schools, play
HAIFA (Press Release) — “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is intended to remind all of Lebanon’s denominations that Iran will not tolerate any harm to Hezbollah’s power and status,” says Dr. Soli Shahvar, Director of the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. Hezbollah was established as a branch