Global
Holocaust commemorations across the globe
Poverty grips half the Holocaust survivors alive today
United States
Former Malaysian PM says U.S. staged 9/11 attacks
ZOA says ADL owes Rush Limbaugh an apology for asking for one
Abdulmutallab belongs in military custody — Senators Lieberman and Collins
ACLU accuses Lieberman, others of wanting to discard Constitution in terror cases
Haiti relief
Jewish Community Foundation donors send over $100,000 for Haiti relief
JNF invests $100 million in cutting edge water programs for Israel … by Ulla Hadar in Sderot, Israel
El Al passenger recovers $50,000 in jewelry
Iran
Kantor: Iran denies Holocaust because it doesn’t want world to recognize its lessons
European Union members consider possible sanctions against Iran
Siemens to cut future business deals with Iran
Europe
Retired bishop call Jews ‘arrogant’ and Shoah use a ‘propaganda weapon’
Movement to equate communist rule with Holocaust seen as an attempt to marginalize latter
Extremists threaten life of imam in France who wants improved Jewish-Muslim relations
ADL says Papandreou’s letter to Jewish community a ‘positive step’
Just how ‘enlightened’ is Europe? … by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Music and diary revive dark feelings of Shoah .. by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson in Mevasseret Zion, Israel
San Diego
Preventing teen dating violence … An interview with Dr. Marni Greenberg by Yvonne Greenberg
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 19, 1954, Part IV … compiled by Gail Umeham
–Desert Trip Planned By Zionist Group
–Sisterhood Tells A Secret Wed. Mar. 24
–Yo-Ma-Cos Are Buying A Bus!
–Beth Jacob Plans For Passover Seder
–Queen Esther To Be Chosen By Pioneer Women Sunday
–Eddie Cantor To Speak for Hadassah
–T. I. Men’s Club Host Servicemen At Seder
Arts
Emerging Filmmakers to have their day Feb 15 at S.D. Jewish Film Festival
San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Bruriah’ … by Randy Fadem in La Jolla, California
Thursdays with the Songs of Hal Wingard, z”l
#145 — You Be the Judge!
#88 — I Never Tell a Lie
#148 — What’s the Good?
#67 — Just So-So
Cuisine
Brandt Beef Offered at Zel’s Del Mar … by Lynne Thrope in Del Mar, California
Rabbi Ben Kamin on Examiner.Com: The French burqa resolution is feeble
National Museum of American Jewish History on YouTube: “It’s Your Story”
Marty Peretz in the New Republic: Maybe I’m getting paranoid … about Obama
Ilene Prusher in Wall Street Journal: These Palestinians aren’t happy about Israeli settlement freeze
Valerie Scher on San Diego News Network: Adam Lambert: Get the Birthday Cake Ready
Tinamarie Bernard on SheWrites.Com: An unlikely Holocaust Remembrance Day love story
David Brin on Salon.com: Haiti: Urban planning amid the rubble