Shattered windows at Shjaar Hanegev regional council building -Staff Report– SHA’AR HANEGEV, Israel — A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza struck near the municipal government bguilding of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council in the early hours of Sunday, May 30, causing some damage but no injuries because no one was in the building at […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is sad, even pathetic, but not surprising that the UN meeting of parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons concluded their month long conference by calling for the monitoring of Israel’s nuclear program without mentioning that of Iran. The United States participated in the consensus, but senior officials
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–On Thursday evening I returned from attending the International Rabbinical Assembly Convention. For the first time in its history, this year’s RA Convention was held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. JTS is the premiere academic institution of the Conservative Movement and many JTS scholars, as well
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California– This will be a bit complicated, but I think it’s an important insight, and it helped me. I recently received an award as “the most outstanding resident” from SCPH (Southern California Presbyterian Homes) at their annual meeting. Several SCPH communities sent in names of residents, and I was thrilled
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Natasha Josefowitz
By Donald H. Harrison MOUNT ISRAEL, California—This foothill in San Diego County has been “partitioned. ” Approaching it from Lake Hodges on its south and east, it still is known as Mount Israel. However, its more-rural northeastern slope overlooking Olivenhain Dam and Reservoir is described today as part of the Elfin Forest Recreational Area.
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“When the Ark would journey, Moshe said, ‘Arise Hashem (G-d) and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate You flee from before You.’” Numbers (10:35) When we raise the banner of Torah, and follow its ways faithfully, all problems and obstacles become mere details and can easily be
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –As a result of a chance encounter at Lod airport at the beginning of the year I met Robi Damelin, spokesperson for the Parents Circle – Bereaved Families Forum, the group uniting Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families in an effort to attain peace, reconciliation and tolerance. Robi was struggling
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastASHDOD, Israel (Press Release)–Self-styled European human rights activists will be in for a big surprise this weekend when their eight boats try to illegally land on the coast of Gaza to break what they call Israel’s “illegal Israeli blockade” of the Gaza Strip. “We will be there with our own flotilla of boats and signs
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–The phone rings, it’s my daughter. “Mom, what are you wearing to the wedding?” “Remember the lovely two-piece, grey silk dress I wore at your daughter’s Bat Mitzvah?” “Mom, she was thirteen, she’s thirty-one!” “Oh,” I said. “It’s vintage!” And so I wore that dress at my grandson’s wedding
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Amy Durschlag lights her daughter Amanda’s candle in celebration of her High School Graduation SAN DIEGO (Presss Release)–Noting that Judaism does not have a specific ceremony to mark the milestone of High School graduation, Rabbi David Kornberg and Youth Director Charlene Naft of Congregation Beth Am, decided to create one. On May 25, 2010, graduating
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Long time readers know, and have generously supported, Fran O’Brien’s dinners for soldiers, primarily amputees, recovering from their wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital. The dinners, which take place outside of the hospital, began in 2004 and offer recovering soldiers a chance to socialize, eat a
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The visitors center at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is in the Robinson-Rose Building. It is named for James W. Robinson and Louis Rose, two pioneer San Diegans who met on a wagon train, became friends, and within a few years of their arrival in San
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Donald H. Harrison, USAWARSAW, Poland (Press Release)–Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her heroism in risking her life to save others. The ADL Courage to Care Award, which honors rescuers of Jews during the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Immigration is again a hot button in the United States, with attractions for demagogues of right and left. The President has ordered 1,200 National Guard personnel sent to border areas of the Southwest, in response to other politicians demanding that something be done. The targets of this effort are illegal drug shipments
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA