By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — How important is Sara Netanyahu? She is prominent in the realm of politics as theater, presented by the media as a public spectacle. She is a frequent subject of the cartoonist for Ha’aretz, who depicts her like a creature that would remove the certificate of kashrut from Israel’s […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In preparing this week’s D’var Torah I came upon a Chassidic story whose conclusion puzzled me: Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa used to ask: “What is the difference between a ‘lover of truth’ and a ‘hater of lies?’” A “hater of lies” hates everyone, because there no one
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was submitted by a cast member appearing in J*Company’s production of GYPSY–A Musical Fable. For the 2012-2013 Season, J*Company presents a tribute to Barbra Streisand featuring GYPSY, soon to be revived in a film featuring Streisand herself. The J*Company play GYPSY runs March 1-17. All productions take place at the
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Travel and FoodBy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C– President Obama’s decision to visit the Middle East this spring has focused new attention on how hard he intends to work and how much time and political capital he might expend on trying to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Obama will certainly receive a warm welcome both in
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Middle EastEditorial: United Jewish Fund Drive– 1957 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 5, 1957, Page 3 With the opening of the 1957 campaign on April 1, San Diegans will participate in the effort to raise $295,000.00 — the largest goal in the history of drives in this Jewish Community. The devoted men and women who have voluntarily
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen, Matthew R.J. Brodsky and Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to testimony Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke with President Obama at the outset of the Benghazi attack during a pre-scheduled meeting, but not again until the attacks were over. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint
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Shoshana Bryen, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — The growing ease of DNA sequencing has led to enormous advancements in the scientific field. Through extensive networked databases, researchers can access genetic information to gain valuable knowledge about causative and preventative factors for disease, and identify new targets for future treatments. But the wider availability of such information also has
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’re signs, albeit faint, that the in-your-face bravado announcements about settlement expansion by the Likud Beiteinu Party Leader Binyamin Netanyahu before the elections last month were different from what we seem to hear from the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the
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Middle EastPress Notes (Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 5, 1957, Part 2) Southwestern Jewish Press, April 5, 1957, Pages 3, 10, 11 By Julia Kaufman Just tuned in the Tiajuana radio station for a little mood music to get me back to Mexico City where I left off my last column. The result was
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Jewish HistoryBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Three books I have read in the last few months, all of them well-researched and dealing in one way or another with art or artists and the Second World War, have given me many hours of interest and plenty to think about. The first, which I picked
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonPhilanthropist Lauder earns France’s highest honor (JNS.org) France on Wednesday awarded Jewish philanthropist and media mogul Ronald Lauder with its government’s highest honor. Lauder—president of the World Jewish Congress, owner of Israel’s Channel 10 television station, and son of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder—received the Legion of Honor from President François Hollande. “With you, France honors
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InternationalBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph. D. LA JOLLA, California — In his second inaugural address, President Obama presented his program for the “transformation of America.” It reads like a “socialist manifesto” enunciated with the tacit assumption that he will rule, unchallenged, to re-create a new US of A in his own image, far different from the
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USAEditor’s Note: Prof. Barry Rubin, director of the GLORIA center in Israel which keeps close track of geo-political developments in the Middle East, is an occasional columnist for San Diego Jewish World. He now is offering free to readers 11 books he has published over the years. HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release)– The GLORIA Center has
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I have to thank my dear parents, may they rest in peace, for many things. I must especially thank them for having chosen to provide me with a yeshiva day school education. This was not an obvious choice back in the 1940’s, for few parents chose the day school
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