March 2012

NCSY youth will have dinner in La Jolla with Sderot mayor

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — More than forty NCSY teens will have the privilege to discuss what leadership means with the Mayor of Sderot, David Buskila, over dinner on Sunday, March 11. Mayor Buskila will address the challenges that come with being a Jewish leader during trying times. Following that, teens who have visited […]

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Travel and Food

Study finds terrorism does not demoralize the victim society

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israelis recall the Second Intifada, which   began in September 2000 and lasted half a decade, as a bleak period of   terrorism and suicide bombings. Yet new research from the Hebrew University  of Jerusalem finds that surprisingly, the terrorism had almost no impact on  Israelis’ self-reported life satisfaction levels in surveys conducted at

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Middle East

UCSD’s student government defeats Israel divestment effort

By Audrey Jacobs SAN DIEGO –Mazal Tov to the UCSD Tritons for Israel and Pro-Israel community on Wednesday night’s 20-13 vote to defeat a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The UCSD Associated Students (AS) government heard seven hours of hateful rhetoric demonizing Israel as well as heartfelt testimonies defending Israel and the truth. Kol HaKavod UCSD Tritons for Israel Daniel

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San Diego County

Criticism of Arab Justice for not singing Hatikvah an excuse for bigotry

By Rabbi Dow Marmur  JERUSALEM — Despite attempts by some politicians to compromise Israeli democracy, the Supreme Court, with its commitment to the rule of law and the rights of individuals and minorities, always made sure that they wouldn’t succeed. Those on the reactionary far Right have, therefore, often regarded the judges as thorns in

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Middle East

Gracia Molina de Pick, Hispanic Jewish activist, honored during Women’s History Month

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Hispanic Jewish activist Gracia Molina de Pick, feminist, educational reformer, and philanthropist, is one of the six 2012 National Women’s History Month Honorees.  Her work embodies the 2012 theme for National Women’s History Month – Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment. Molina de Pick’s community organizing skills developed in high school, where she was

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San Diego Calendar

‘Visiting Mr. Green’ is a hefty dose of chicken soup for theatre lovers

  By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—Mr. Green (Robert Grossman) is an 86-year-old widower who clings to his Jewish values and beliefs. He is angry, unpleasant, stubborn, worn out and alone. He and his wife Yetta were married 59 years. “We almost made it to sixty and never had and argument”. But she died a

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Who’s right in debate over President Obama’s apology?

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — National Public Radio commentators recently discussed a very interesting question: Should President Obama have “apologized” for the accidental burning of the Qur’an? Some argue that the President should have expressed “regret” over the incident, which acknowledges some degree of culpability. Regret does not contain any element

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA