By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –When word came, like an advancing nightmare, that three Jewish teenagers had been abducted in the West Bank—a tortured, biblical landscape of stony hills and olive groves—we held little faith that they would ever see their parents again. Old men, so many of them wearing the garb of piety […]
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — “If indeed an Arab youth has been murdered for nationalistic motives, this is a horrifying, shocking act. There is no difference in blood. Murder is murder, whatever one’s nationality or age. There is no justification, no forgiveness and no atonement for any murder whatsoever.” These are not the
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Religious Viewpoint on “Right to Work”: The Protestant View Southwestern Jewish Press, May 16, 1958, Page 3 Rev. Andrew Juvinall, Pastor, First Methodist Church, Napa As Christians we are concerned with the spiritual and material well-being of our fellowmen. According to Jesus the decisive factor in God’s judgment of a man is the extent to
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Adventures in SD HistoryMemo to San Diego Jewish World readers From Donald H. Harrison, publisher SAN DIEGO–Summer time, it seems, is when much of the Jewish world goes on vacation. We know that many of our news sources plan to be off to other places between now and Rosh Hashanah. A lot of our readers are planning vacations
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Immigration, Civil Rights and the murder of a Palestinian teenager were among the preoccupations of Jewish members (names in boldface type) of Congress in the week leading up to the nation’s Independence Day holiday on July 4th. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) released a statement on efforts to address the humanitarian
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, urged Congress to find an immediate fix that would replenish the Highway Trust Fund before the current authorization expires. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wrote a letter to transportation officials in all 50 states warning them
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USAWHITE PLAINS, NY (Press Release)– Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-New York), the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, was joined on a conference call this morning with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) National President Jan Withers and Rockland County Sherriff Louis Falco III to announce that she will be introducing a bill next week
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Science, Medicine, & Education
NORTH HAVEN, Connecticut (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) stopped by a Target store here, and bought his favorite candy to commend Target Corporation on its recent decision to adopt a no-guns policy prohibiting customers from carrying guns in its stores, including stores in states with open-carry laws. _____________________________________________ Keeping Up With Jewish
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), a leader in the fight for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, announced on Wednesday, July 2, that they will introduce legislation in response to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationHumoring the Headlines By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO- ISIS declared that one objective of the Islamic State it has established is to overthrow Barack Obama. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have contacted ISIS about coordinating their efforts. * Customers have complained about Walmart selling posters of the infamous Dachau gate which bore the slogan
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The U.S.-Israel Center on Innovation and Economic Sustainability (USIC) at the Rady School of Management on Thursday, July 3, announced the new Stanley Foster Memorial Cal-Israel Innovations Speaker Series. The speaker series will honor the late Stanley Foster, a highly respected civic leader and a pillar in the San Diego
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Travel and Food
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Maurice Sosnowski, the head of the Belgian Jewish community umbrella group COOJB, has warned that European Jews should brace for further terrorist attacks. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’, Sosnowski said “every Jewish community in the world today has to be prepared for such a kind of incident.” Citing terrorism
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International
BRUSSELS (WJC)– The World Jewish Congress on Thursday lent its support for the creation of a special committee of the newly elected European Parliament to fight extremism and anti-Semitism and praised German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier for taking the lead on this matter. “It would be more just a symbolic gesture if the European lawmakers
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By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week With a little more than a year until convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is eligible for parole, a group of nine prominent legal scholars has sent a letter to President Barack Obama arguing for Pollard’s early release. The group of scholars and professors at top universities—led by Harvard Law
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