By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — If one is looking for reasons of the collapse of the nine-month peace negotiations, one needs to go no further than the remark by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu after he talked with Pope Francis in Jerusalem. Netayahu said, “I long for the day in which Pope Francis’s […]
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With 100 percent of the unofficial returns counted, San Diego’s June 3 election proved to be a big day for incumbents. They were returned to office. Among Jewish candidates, the biggest beneficiary of this trend was District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis who won a fourth term outright with 160,658
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– A member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, Gidongo Armstrong, will be the dinner guest at a meeting of the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18. A resident of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the 26-year-old Armstrong will tell a story “which is one of
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Fund Approves Merger To United Jewish Federation Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1958, Page 6 To keep pace with a rapidly expanding Jewish community in San Diego County and the increased growth of Federation Agency services, the Board of Directors of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego approved the merger of the Fund and
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Adventures in SD HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Elissa Greenberg, a Francis Parker senior, a member of the community outreach program Whatever It Takes (WIT), was among teens written up by the U-T’s Pam Kragen in her “Making A Difference” column. She and other teens had received a $10,000 grant to mentor younger students in making healthy eating
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m., Friday, June 6, at El Camino Memorial Park for philanthropist Miram Katzin, for whom, along with her husband Jerome, the Memory Care Unit at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities in Encinitas is named. Besides by her husband, Miriam. Katzin is survived by her children,
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San Diego County
WARSAW, Poland (Press Release)– U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday, June 3, a billion dollar initiative to assure U.S. allies in NATO that it will stand with them in the event of military challenge. He made this statement during a joint appearance with Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski. Following are President Obama’s remarks, as excerpted
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan), made the following statement on Tuesday, June 3: “A number of questions have been raised about the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange and the congressional notification requirement. We received a detailed classified notification from the Secretary of Defense that satisfies the many substantive
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement: “It has been 25 years since hundreds—perhaps even thousands—of demonstrators were killed in Tiananmen Square while peacefully advocating for a voice in how they are governed. I know of no
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International, USALAPLATA, Maryland (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, hosted a roundtable with students, faculty and administrators at the College of Southern Maryland Monday, June 2, to discuss the growing cost of higher education. Student loan debt has ballooned to roughly $1 trillion, a sum larger
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) has called on Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloane Gibson to immediately release 216 site-specific audits detailing widespread falsification of waiting list records and delays in treatment at VA health centers nationwide. Blumenthal also announced he will co-sponsor and help lead legislation with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chairman
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) on Tuesday, June 3, introduced a bill with Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) that would shut the revolving door of lobbyist influence in Washington by banning Members of Congress from ever becoming lobbyists. “Washington lobbyists shouldn’t be allowed to hold more sway than the folks back
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an agreement to create a new seed fund to finance joint research collaborations and student exchanges. The MIT-Israel – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund is part of MISTI Global Seed Funds. MISTI will
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Steve Kramer ZICHRON YAACOV, Israel — It was on a beautiful spring day that our hiking group set off from a spot adjacent to a “winter pond,” a low-lying area which becomes a pond only during the (hopefully) rainy winter, drying up soon after winter ends. We were near Israel’s Mediterranean coast, not
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food