NEW YORK (Press Release)–Jewish community leaders from across Latin America participated in a series of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) workshops where they exchanged strategies on responding to key issues confronting Jews in the region. Community leaders and professional staff from 11 Latin American countries (with representation from Spain and Puerto Rico) gathered November 15-17 at the […]
TEL AVIV (Press Release)–From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they’ll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at how fat cells –which produce the fat in our bodies –respond to mechanical loads. This might be the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Nov. 22, welcomed a substantial drop in the number of hate crimes documented by a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report, but expressed disappointment that more than 60 U.S. cities with 100,000-plus populations still did not participate in the annual study. The FBI’s 2009 report documenting
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — It’s always good to start off the week with a bang, not a fizzle. That’s why one of my favorite places to spend the hours after Shabbat and before work starts on Sunday is with the lively folks at Yung Yiddish–Jerusalem’s Yiddish cabaret. Almost every Saturday night in the
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff ‘With the Guardians’ Southwestern Jewish Press, May 13, 1955, Page 3 By Moishe For sheer concentration rivaling a tournament match involving international chess players, we recommend the monthly gin game between Doc Solomon and Ben Harris. What could easily be misinterpreted as a lack of faith (but is
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Hold Memorial Services Tonite For Nazi Victims Southwestern Jewish Press, May 13, 1955, Pages 1, 5 Tonight San Diego Jewry will hold memorial services commemorating the death of 6,000,000 Jews by Nazi Germany. At the same time, at 8:30 p.m., a service of thanks commemorating 10 years of
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By Gert Thaler LA JOLLA, California –San Diego’s Sigrid Fischer is celebrating her 90th birthday and if you think, perchance, that this does not take some doing, for anyone, you are sadly mistaken. The joke goes that the people who read the obituary listings just want to be sure that their name and photo don’t appear
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — At a time when antisemitism is at the highest point in the West and the world generally since 1945, the battle against it faces a terrible obstacle. To a very large extent, the driving force of this hatred is revolutionary Islamism, whether it be in the form of attitudes
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on members of the United States Senate to ratify the New START treaty, saying that failure to do so promptly “would inevitably hamper” American leadership to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons program. In a letter sent Friday to all members of the Senate, the League urged
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Among the platitudes being promoted here and elsewhere is that the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party SHAS is one of the extremist elements keeping the Netanyahu government from acting with good sense. The conventional line is that Israel must leave the West Bank to Palestine, in compliance with the views expressed by right
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –I spent the entire month of October on the East Coast, book-ended by two concerts featuring my younger sister, Violinist Zina Schiff. On Saturday evening, October 2, in the New England Conservatory’s excellent Jordan Hall, Zina performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Longwood Symphony under the direction of Jonathan
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By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — There is a cardinal rule in campaigning: don’t attack your opponent in a multi-candidate field. For example, if you attack one of your opponents in a three- candidate field, the voters are likely to not vote for the person attacked, but they aren’t going to vote for you because
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) President and CEO David A. Harris issued the following statement congratulating Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) on his appointment as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): “We wish a hearty mazel tov to Representative Steve Israel for being chosen by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as the
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– For the first time, the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, San Diego Grantmakers, San Diego Women’s Foundation, San Diego Social Venture Partners, The San Diego Foundation, and UCSD Extension teamed up to increase philanthropy in the San Diego region. The event, underwritten by The Duddingston Sylvester
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