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Middle East

Israel
Al Qaeda believed behind attempted roadside bombing at Allenby Bridge

Arab World

U.S., Morocco conduct exercise to thwart nuclear disaster

United States of America

U.S. Sentencing Commission recommends broadening hate crimes categories

Life in prison for Seattle Jewish Federation attacker Naveed Haq

Haiti Relief

Israel, worldwide Jewry mobilize to help Haiti

San Diego Councilwoman warns of Haiti scams

Israel brings hope and healing to Haiti ... by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Jerusalem

Europe

Pope’s visit to Rome synagogue set for Sunday, January 17

Yad Vashem chairman asks Pope Benedict XVI not beatify Pius XII

Of Killing Fields and Looted Graves: A Catholic Priest Fulfills the Command, Zachor... by Jeanette Friedman in New York

ADL calls on Greek government to condemn firebombing attack on Crete synagogue

Czech trial begins to ban Workers Party as a neo-Nazi organization

Asia

Goodbye to all that! — An American Jew’s life in non-Christian Asia ... by Danny Bloom in Chiayi City, Taiwan

Judaism

Why is a grapevine soft and spongy? ... by Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego

Torah lesson: you don’t get something for nothing ... by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego

Terror-Related News Releases

All military should be required to report Islamist extremists in the ranks –Senate Homeland Security Committee

ACLU files Freedom of Information suit on U.S. ‘targeted killings’ overseas

San Diego

Alan Rusonik of AJE to address Hatikvah Hadassah Jan. 21

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 5, 1954, Part III...Compiled by Gail Umeham
--Jewish Center News
--Y.J.C. Club Dances
--J.C.C. Women’s League To Honor Board
--Temple Men’s Club Elects New Officers
--A New American Friend
--Hop, Skip and Protocol (Editorial)
--Community Currents

Arts

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Against The Tide’

Book on child sexual abuse in Jewish community wins award

‘Confusions’ is four–er, five–mini-plays rolled into one ... by Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles

I'm Still Here — Memoirs of Laura Simon, 104
--Home Health Care
-- Help
--Try and Find a Maid
--Other Worlds
--Czarina
--Advice
--How a Legally Blind Woman Sees
--Blindness for Sure
--The Wooden Queen
--My High School Walker

Sports

"I’m Back. Kouz’s Gone. The Chargers are going all the way! ... by Joey Seymour in San Diego

Links to stories in other publications

Mehnaz Afridi on Common Ground website: Muslims and Jews~Continuing the Conversation

Tamar Caspi in Jerusalem Post: Dating Games: The Chemistry Quiz

Carolyn Glick in Jewish World Review: Ayres' wife heads to Middle East with group to collaborate with Hamas

Richard Greenberg in Washington Jewish Week: Auschwitz remains a symbol,l but will next generation remember?

Yaakov Katz in Jerusalem Post: IDF medical and rescue team will spend two weeks in Haiti

Rabbi Ben Kamin on Examiner.com: Even Haiti reveals moral disparity in Middle East

Dean Nelson in The Telegraph: Taliban may be descended from Jews

Barry Rubin in the Rubin Report: Brilliant Defender or Light-Weight? Some problems in the thinking of Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center

Sam Roberts in New York Times: Celebrating the Freshest 100-Year-Old Knish

Darren Schwartz on United Jewish Federation of San Diego website: Diary of a Birthright trip to Israel

Simon Tisdall in The Guardian: Wave of anti-Christian violence in Muslim world

Emma Tuttleman-Kreigler and Max Einhorn among San Diego News Network's list of 35 young leaders under 35

State Department sketches what Bin-Laden may look like today, in San Diego Union-Tribune

U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals: Dismisses claims of heirs of Holocaust victims who purchased life insurance policies, saying matter should be brought to the Claims Conference

U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals: Display of Ten Commandments in courthouse constitutional when included among other historic documents

U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Federal law preempts California's on return of looted Holocaust art

U.S. Department of Justice: Defendants added to conspiracy case in which David Headley charged with aiding terrorists in the Mumbai massacres and in a plot on Danish newspaper.

White House: Travel of National Security Advisor Jim Jones in Lebanon

White House: Inventory of documents in Ft. Hood massacre

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Dedications

Today's issue is dedicated to Shahar Masori, whose birthday is January 17, and also to Shahar & Sandi Masori, whose wedding anniversary fell on January 16.

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