NEW YORK (Press Release)– American Jewish Committee (AJC) has honored Ambassador Philip Murphy with its prestigious “Ernst Cramer Award for Outstanding Contributions to German-American Jewish Understanding.” The award was presented to Murphy for his service as U.S. ambassador to Germany (2009-2013), at an AJC event at the Jewish Museum in New York. More than 150
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Women of Reform Judaism of Temple Emanu-El is hosting its annual Artisan Festival on Sunday, Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 pm. at the synagogue located at 6299 Capri Drive. There will be 52 artisans showcasing the finest in pottery, glassware, fused and blown glass, photography, jewelry, mosaics, painted silks, mosaics,
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LOS ANGELES (WJC) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center has said it had identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive. The Los Angeles-based organization gave the German government a list of 80 names for investigation. The Wiesenthal Center’s top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told the ‘Associated Press’ on
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International, Jewish HistoryANTWERP, Belgium (WJC) — A prosecutor in the city of Antwerp demanded a 15-year prison term for Fouad Belkacem, the leader of the Islamist group Sharia4Belgium which is suspected of brainwashing youngsters and shipping them off to fight in Syria. A further 46 members of the group were charged with membership in a terror organization in
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International, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –In August we attended a lecture in Ra’anana by Richard Kemp, sponsored by the excellent Standwithus organization, which is dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating the extremism and anti-Semitism that often distorts the issues. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Col. Kemp, he is a
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The windows of the upper floor of my house look out towards the hill in the Judaean Mountains known as the Castel, which is today the site of a national park. It is green in winter and grey-brown in summer. I love to paint the view, which is
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastJordan: IDF helped us destroy Israeli spy devices from 1969 (JNS.org) Jordan’s military chief revealed Tuesday that what was previously identified as an archaeological dig near Aljoun University in northern Jordan was in fact a joint Jordanian military and Israel Defense Forces intelligence operation to remove Israeli listening devices placed there in 1969. In a
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The most pressing issue that raises the will he or won’t he question concerns President Obama and American troops. It’s shaping up not as will he or won’t he, but how will he do it? His promise to avoid the use of American troops is clear, and repeated too many times to be discarded
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO — On September 20, my wife Lee and I were in Seattle and attended the memorial service for the recently departed Peter Eros, age 82. You may remember him. He was the resident conductor of the San Diego Symphony in the 1970’s and the early 80’s. I was most surprised
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias will begin this week because Nancy Grace needs another story to outrage her on her television show. * Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong against China’s decision to only allow only candidates it has approved to appear on the ballot in the upcoming election for
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Readers of San Diego Jewish World are familiar with Dorothea Shefer-Vanson through her columns that she sends from the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion. They often focus on Israel’s lively music scene. The reporter also is a fine novelist, her latest work being Time Out of Joint: The
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Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-VansonTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. Now Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in cardiac tissue engineering. Dr. Tal Dvir and his graduate student Michal Shevach of TAU’s Department
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK (Press Release) — American Jewish World Service has announced that Alon Shalev will serve as the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. American Jewish World Service is a Jewish organization that promotes human rights and works to end poverty in the developing world. As executive director,
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — HonestReporting announced Tuesday, Sept. 30, that Elijah Granet, 19, from San Diego, is the winner of the third Blankfeld Award for Media Critique. It was a unanimous decision to give this year’s award to San Diego native Elijah Granet, currently majoring in Political Science and Talmud at Columbia University and the
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