SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am invites the community to sing and dance at its Community Rock’n Shabbat Service. Held every second Friday of the month, the service features live music by Yochanan Sebastian Winston and his band. The service starts at 7 p.m. The community is also invited to join us prior to the Rock’n [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Arlen Specter and U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman on Friday, Sept. 24, announced the introduction of legislation to protect students from religious discrimination. Recently, there have been multiple incidents involving anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Sikh epithets, slurs and obscenities, and even physical violence towards students at American school. “All students should be protected [...]
Editor’s Note: Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of J Street, sent a letter to his organization’s supporters, with copies to the media, following disclosures in the Washington Times about the sources of the organization’s finances: By Jeremy Ben-Ami Within the past 48 hours, you may have heard that the Washington Times published a confidential J Street tax [...]
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) – On October 9 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., the Encinitas library is hosting the San Diego County Library Book Festival. The all-ages event will host popular authors, discussion panels, free entertainment and activities, as well as local food vendors. The Book Festival will feature: a keynote address by Richard Dreyfuss, who [...]
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO – The 2010 Star Awards at the Balboa Theatre, for volunteers in San Diego’s Arts Community, opened with the shooting-star energy of Culture Shock ‘s dance ensemble. These kids, with bodies as pliant as rubber, did their fast-moving break dance and bebop routines to a cheering audience. The Star Award [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –French Hill is one of the neighborhoods begun soon after 1967 on land included in the enlargement of Jerusalem. Now there are about 8,000 residents, the large majority of whom are Jews. There are also Arab, East Asian, and other students from the nearby Hebrew University, and Arab families who are [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Another one of America’s presidential has-beens is causing a stir in the Holy Land. It’s not Jimmy Carter this time, but Bill Clinton. The unpleasant surprise from the mouth of someone thought of as a friend, reasonably bright, and socially adept is that the right-wing and settler-friendly Russian immigrants are a major [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The documentary film The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story will be screened on October 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the San Diego Jewish Film Festival at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC, Jacobs Family campus. The Boys is an intimate journey through [...]
MERCER ISLAND, Washington (WJC)–Anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and references to the Nazi gas chambers, has been spray-painted on the walls of a Jewish high school in the US state of Washington. The epithets in orange, blue and gray paint on the Northwest Yeshiva High School on Mercer Island were daubed late on Thursday last week [...]
JERUSALEM (WJC)–Large riots have erupted in east Jerusalem as approximately 1,000 people joined a funeral procession for a Palestinian killed by an Israeli security guard in Silwan in the early hours of Wednesday. Ten people were injured, including a 35-year-old Israeli who was stabbed in the back near Mount of Olives and three police officers. [...]
