February 2011

Egyptian street versus Egyptian president puts Israel and U.S. in tough spots

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Last Shabbat several congregants told me that they had expected me to speak about the unrest in Egypt during services. I did not because I believed it would be belaboring the obvious. However, since my rabbinic wisdom is being widely solicited, I will instead belabor the obvious here: […]

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Middle East, USA

U.S. policy toward Egypt bewilders analysts on all sides

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Headline on page one of Ha’aretz, “Mubarak: ‘Obama does not understand Egyptian culture.’” Summary of today’s posting from Memri, a well informed intelligence source that translates material from Muslim media: “The　Egyptian Foreign Ministry has rejected the U.S.’s stance on the protests in Egypt, telling it bluntly to mind its own

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Ira Sharkansky

‘Jewish Theology in Our Time’ appears to be a smorgasbord

Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief,  edited by Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD. Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT;  ISBN 978-1-58023-413-9 ©2010, $24.95, p. 224 plus notes and suggestions for further reading. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California —Jewish Theology in Our Time is a collection

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Fred Reiss, EdD

ZOA joins fight over Brooklyn College instructor’s suitability to teach about Middle East

NEW YORK (Press Release)–In a letter Thursday to Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the college for rehiring Kristofer Petersen-Overton to teach a graduate course on the Middle East this spring.  After  Petersen-Overton was initially hired, the college was provided with evidence regarding his publications and professional background,

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Mel Gibson wanted to kill himself after wife left him, so taunted police officer, friend asserts

HOLLYWOOD (Press Release)–A friend of the US actor and film director Mel Gibson said the latter but had tried to goad a police officer into drawing his weapon and shoot by hurling anti-Semitic slurs at him after he stopped Gibson for drink driving. The incident in 2007 led to the steady decline of Gibson’s once

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Travel and Food

Anti-Semitism in London, Manchester at alarming levels

LONDON (WJC)–The second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was recorded in the UK last year, the Community Security Trust (CST) of the British Jewish community said. More than 639 complaints about violence and abuse against Jews or Jewish institutions were received last year. They included street attacks, hate mail, threats, and the vandalism and desecration

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Travel and Food

Proposed bill by Congressman Chris Smith invalidates experiences of rape victims

By Jeanette Friedman ENGLEWOOD, N.J.–Thirty-seven years ago, this very week, there was a snowstorm swirling outside my kitchen window, but my sixth floor apartment was so hot and dry I cracked the window facing the fire escape before I went to bed. It was about 3 a.m., and I had just fallen asleep when I

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USA

Learn two languages and the third will come easier

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Bilinguals findit easier to learn a third language, as they gain a better aptitude for languages, a new study from the University of Haifa reveals. Prof. Salim Abu-Rabia and Ekaterina Sanitsky of the Department of Special Education, who conducted the study, set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in

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Science, Medicine, & Education

A bissel this, a bissel that~San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 15, February 3, 2011)   Compiled by Donald H. Harrison  *  _________________ Jewish Organizations _________________ Western States Jewish History has put San Diego’s first federal judge, the late Jacob Weinberger, on the cover of  its winter edition.  Judge Weinberger came to San Diego after serving as a member of the convention in Arizona responsible

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Senators call on Germany to stop bank’s support of Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program.  The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH

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Travel and Food

Ukrainian policeman who rounded up, shot Jews ordered deported from U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General

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Travel and Food