SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club and the Beth Israel Social Action Committee will host several San Diego City Council District 1 candidates at a May 18th Dinner Forum. Attendees will hear the candidate’s views, plans and platforms in preparation for the November 2016 election. District 1 includes Carmel Valley, University City, and La […]
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San Diego CalendarLONDON (WJC) — Malia Bouattia, who was elected president of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK on Tuesday, is facing criticism from Jewish students over controversial remarks about Israel. Bouattia, who is of Algerian origin, won the election on the first round of voting against the outgoing NUS president, Megan Dunn. In an article she co-wrote in 2011,
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationMOSCOW (JNS.org) — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with delegates from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss Jewish life in Russia. “The World Jewish Congress is a very well-known and influential international non-governmental organization. As far as I know, the organization has existed for
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InternationalZURICH, Switzterland (WJC)– The former leader of the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), Christoph Blocher, caused an outcry over the weekend after comparing the treatment of his party in a controversial referendum campaign to that of the Jews in Nazi Germany. A majority of Swiss voters recently rejected the SVP’s initiative which called for the
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International, Jewish HistoryArab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi compares Israel to Nazis (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Member of Knesset Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List), a frequent harsh critic of the Israeli government, compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Holocaust and refused to attend Israel’s upcoming national Holocaust memorial assembly. Zoabi was invited to the annual
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-53rd in a series- Exit 20, Greenwood Drive, El Cajon, California ~ CHP El Cajon station By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Most of the 31-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Greenfield Drive (Exit 20) and Buckman Springs Road (Exit 51) is known to California Highway Patrol officers like Kevin Pearlstein as Beat
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Three American Presidents must share at least part of the responsibility for the chaos currently destroying large parts of the Middle East, and threatening Israel, Europe, and the United States. Ronald Reagan sought an advantage in the Cold War by recruiting Muslim fighters, providing them money and munitions to use
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — To facilitate the current round of Syrian peace talks, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to support the return of the Golan Heights to Syria. The two presidents gave their top diplomats, Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the green light to
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Middle East, Steve KramerThere ain’t no limit on bad luck. If there was, I’da run out years ago.” By Eric George Tauber SOLANA BEACH, California — Adapted from ‘Old Man’ by William Faulkner, Way Down River takes us to the Parchman State Penal Farm, Mississippi, 1927. Aikins has returned nine weeks after he had been presumed drowned in a
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcasthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Goddard
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org) — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) chaired a Congressional hearing on Tuesday that explored the threat Islamic extremism poses to European Jewish communities. The hearing examined how European governments can do more to protect those communities by using policing models pioneered in America. “There can be no European security without Jewish security.
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International, USAIsrael invests billions in multi-layered Gaza terror tunnel barrier (JNS.org) The Israeli defense establishment is expected to finish installing a sophisticated anti-tunnel barrier along the Israel-Gaza border within two years, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday. The project, dubbed “Hourglass,” is estimated to cost billions of shekels. The barrier’s blueprints are the product of cross-platform development
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Recent developments at York University have exposed the administration’s failure to address a real and growing sense of alienation among its Jewish students. This raises the question of how universities can best fulfil their responsibility to preserve free speech and maintain a civil environment for all their students when contentious subjects arise. In a free
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationA Gazan military court sentenced five men to death on Monday, charging them with being informants for Israel. Three of the cases involved alleged spying on behalf of Israel in 2000 and 2001, and two of the men were found guilty of working for Israel in 2008. Four of the men were to be put
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