The Jewish comedians: Harry Azaria
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Anti- hate crime units, officers, to be honored March 10
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League will confer the “Helene & Joseph Sherwood Family Prize for Combating Hate” to three individuals and two law enforcement units at an awards ceremony on March 10, 11:30 a.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Honorees include a deputy district attorney from San Diego County, Oscar Garcia.
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USARivlin pays a shiva call to Adele Biton’s family
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–On Monday evening, February 23, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid a condolence visit to the parents of Adele Biton, 4, the toddler who was critically injured by a Palestinian rock attack on her family’s car two years ago, and passed away last week from respiratory complications from a lung infection. “I
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Middle EastElder care at home brings pain and joy
Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death by Debra Gordon Zaslow; 192 pages. White Cloud Books. $9.45 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — When Debra Gordon Zaslow visited her grandmother in a nursing home in Los Angeles, she quickly realized that, despite being 103 and showing some signs of dementia, her bubbe’s
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Travel and FoodADL urges bipartisan attendance for Netanyahu
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Feb. 24, issued a statement in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on March 3. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who plans to attend the prime minister’s speeches to both AIPAC and to members of Congress, said: While the original decision by
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Middle East, USANetanyahu praises U.S. District Court terror decision
JERUSALEM (SDJW) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted Monday’s decision in a federal district court in New York City to find the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the victims of bombings and other attacks during the Second Intifada with the following comment: The US
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Middle East, USAHumoring the headlines: February 24, 2015
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ First, it was Brian Williams lying about his experiences in Iraq. Next it was revealed that Bill O’Reilly hadn’t reported from a combat zone during the Falklands War. Now Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has admitted that he did not serve in the Special Forces as he once claimed. Doctors
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireMidrashim to be brought to stage March 10
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego has provided a grant to the MidraShow (www.midrashow.com), a joint project of The Orthodox Union’s NextGen Department in San Diego, OUNext, to be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego. Prior to the performance hors d’oeuvres and a beer
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarNetanyahu – Obama feud will blow over
By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Many Israelis and others are worried that Prime Minister Netanyahu has created a crisis in relations with the American president, and by extension, with the United States. But disagreements between Israel and its chief ally have been common ever since Israel declared its independence in 1948. It can
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USANew technique to tackle gliomas
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain tumor. The disease, always fatal, has a survival rate of only 6-18 months. Now a new Tel Aviv University study may offer hope to the tens of thousands diagnosed with gliomas
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationU.S. Rep. Steve Cohen to boycott Netanyahu speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) on Tuesday issued the following statement regarding his decision not to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned address to Congress next week: As a supporter of the state of Israel and a Jewish American, I have been placed in a difficult position regarding the anticipated speech of Prime
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Middle East, USA$1 million fund to fight abuse in Orthodox community
NEWARK, New Jersey (Press Release) — Two hundred twenty participants from 102 organizations gathered here last week for a groundbreaking conference addressing some of the most sensitive topics affecting the Orthodox Jewish community: risk, trauma and abuse. The milestone event was hosted by Amudim and included 25 private practice clinicians as well as rabbis, educators, therapists, clinical
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Travel and FoodMove to strengthen Jewish – Chinese ties
LONDON (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress on Monday hosted a luncheon in London in honor of Qiu Yuanping, the Chinese minister in charge of Overseas Chinese Affairs. Robert Singer, the WJC’s CEO, headed the WJC’s delegation. Also in attendance were the head of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, WJC Vice-President VivianWineman, the
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International, Middle East, USAEnglish- speaking olim who help build Israel honored
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Six Olim (immigrants) from English-speaking countries who have made a major impact on the State of Israel were awarded the 2015 Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize. The honorees include: Professor Charles Sprung, Director of the General Intensive Care Unit at Hadassah Medical Organization – in the field of Science and Medicine; Jon Medved,
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