NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations expressed its sympathy for the families of the people killed and its prayers for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and all of those wounded in Saturday’s shooting attack in Arizona. “We share in the shock and sorrow at the senseless murderous attack in Tucson. We […]
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– WebYeshiva.org, the first fully-interactive Torah study program on the Web, and the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) announce on Monday a new partnership. The partnership will broaden WebYeshiva.org and LSJS’s reach to students based in the UK, Western Europe, and South Africa. The partnership between the London School of Jewish Studies and WebYeshiva.org
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Jewish ReligionJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prof. Alexander Lubotzky was the first Israeli to deliver a keynote speech at the largest mathematics conference in the United States this weekend, Hebrew University announced. Prof. Lubotzky was invited to give a three-part lecture on ‘Expander Graphs in Pure and Applied Mathematics’ by the 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans this
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Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The U.S. Department of State’s next Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) delegation will be to Cairo, Egypt, from January 9 to 12, 2011. In coordination with the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the U.S. Department of State is sending 13 prominent U.S. investors and entrepreneurs–along with several U.S. government employees
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the collateral killing of Judge John Roll and several others has generated a great deal of commentary. Much of it deals with the capacity of incendiary political rhetoric to trigger violence from those who are on the fringes of sanity or utterly unhinged. Israelis are
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — My friend Tyree, posted the following on her Facebook page: “Can’t stop thinking about Giffords’ staffer who was killed or the other two injured. That could have been me… or a countless number of my friends and colleagues. Just at a day at the office. Just another event.
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USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Happy New Year (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 13-14 It seems to us that the spirit of the High Holy Days – the sense of solemnity and awe with which we approach the beginning of the New Year – is one of the most constructive
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced Sunday that his office filed a federal complaint against Jared Lee Loughner. The complaint was signed by Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns in Phoenix. Loughner is suspected of shooting U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Chief Judge John Roll, Giffords’ staff member
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USAEN ROUTE TO ABU DHABI, January 9 (Press Release)– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she does not favor letting up the pressure on Iran just because Israeli intelligence sources believe Iran is farther away from development of a nuclear weapon than prevously thought. She met with reporters aboard her plane en route to the
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The following statement was issued by the State Department for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We are very concerned about the initiation of demolition of the Shepherd’s Hotel in East Jerusalem. This disturbing development undermines peace efforts to achieve the two state-solution. In particular, this move contradicts the logic of a reasonable
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Middle East
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff This Can Happen Only In America: The Methodist “Guardian of Israel” Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 7 By Harry Golden In a small town in the deep South, the Jewish community, about twenty-five families, organized a congregation and made plans to build a Temple. The Christians
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyNEW YORK, Jan. 9 (Press Release)–The Union for Reform Judaism mourns the passing of our teacher Debbie Friedman, z”l. Debbie influenced and enriched contemporary Jewish music, and Jewish life, in a profound way. Her music crossed generational and denominational lines and carved a powerful legacy of authentic Jewish spirituality into our daily lives. Responding to
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Jewish ReligionBy Charlotte Thalmay COPENHAGEN –Telling about the Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust is of course a very personal thing. However, this is a story that has affected almost 95% of the Jewish population of Denmark and is therefore something most of us share in this community. Denmark was the only occupied country
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Travel and Food
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Amazing. The New York Times has a long piece about how Turkey is becoming an important factor in Iraq. Fair enough. But it includes the following paragraph: “A surprising feature of Turkey’s success is the image it has managed to project in Iraq. On the road from Erbil to
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