-51st in a Series- Exit 19, Second Street, El Cajon ~ Danielle Van Dam Memorial Overpass By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – One of the most painful murder trials in San Diego County was that of David Westerfield for the February 2002 murder of 7-year-old Danielle Van Dam, who lived two doors away […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Jerusalem’s benefits is the opportunity for Jews from different backgrounds, and Arabs, to converse and come to understand what one another brings to the encounter. Some would say that Jerusalem’s ethnic and religious mixture is dangerous, and it can be. It was part of the downside when this
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSPRING VALLEY, California (Press Release) – Flanked by representatives from the California Department of Justice, the Sheriff’s Department, the San Diego Police Department, and local advocates, U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) announced a new initiative to combat sex trafficking. Davis crafted the Empower Educators to Prevent Trafficking Act to help school districts train school
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationLondon’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has demanded that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is “trained about what anti-Semitism is” in order to crack down on it within his party. Khan, the minister for Tooting, in south London, said the Labour Party’s failure to tackle anti-Jewish sentiment was “unacceptable,” in a speech last night at hustings organised
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International, Middle EastFormer Israel President Moshe Katsav is paying the price for refusing to express regret about his crimes. The Prison Release Committee attached to the Israel Prison Service today decided that instead of early release, Katsav would serve his full seven-year sentence for two counts of rape and other crimes. Four years and 120 days after
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Middle EastThe New York Observer said its editor would no longer consult with the campaign of Donald Trump, whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns the weekly. The statement Tuesday, reported Monday by the Huffington Post, came a day after a New York magazine profile of the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod said that
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USAEven as she was losing the Wisconsin Democratic primary to Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton spent Tuesday evening with top Jewish donors at a fundraiser hosted by Jack Bendheim in Riverdale, NYC, Jewish Insider reported. The next major contest between Clinton and Sanders in the race for the 2016 Democratic party presidential nomination will be on
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After Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) handily defeated Donald Trump on Tuesday in the Wisconsin primary, the pro-Israeli group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) released video of Cruz’s father’s speech during a recent PJTN gala dinner. At the event held in Tennessee in February, Pastor Rafael Cruz – who is considered to be a major
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Travel and FoodBat-Sheva Sadan, the daughter of Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz who were murdered by Arab terrorists in their home in Kiryat Arba on a Sabbath eve back in 2003, has weighed in on the controversy regarding shared maternity wards for Jewish and Arab women. After Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) on Tuesday called the
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With California’s June 7th primary drawing closer, as editor of San Diego Jewish World and as a registered independent voter, I have come to some non-partisan conclusions about which candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries are the best choices for our community. On the Republican side, I favor the
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Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer. Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman were the recipients of the corneas, the transparent layer that forms the front of the eye. The operations were
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education(Statistics through April 4) Top of the week: Nine Jewish ballplayers made their team’s opening day rosters, including All-Stars Ryan Braun (Milwaukee Brewers), Ian Kinsler (Detroit Tigers), and Joc Pederson (Los Angeles Dodgers). Defensive magician Kevin Pillar moves into the leadoff spot for the Toronto Blue Jays. Danny Valencia earned a full-time spot for the
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Sports & Competitions, USAMalcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, warned Monday that US Jews and pro-Israel advocates were being distracted by the 2016 election instead of focusing on the damage President Barack Obama could still do in his remaining months in office. “The obsession, I have to say, with the
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Editor’s Note: The New York Daily News’ interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1 has generated considerable controversy, particularly concerning Israel. Here is a transcript of that portion of his interview that dealt with Israel. We congratulate the editorial staff of that newspaper on its efforts to pin Senator Sanders down on the issues. Daily
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