Donald H. Harrison

OpEd: SDSU students reject a BDS resolution

By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO —  After much finagling, the Student for Justice in Palestine had managed on Wednesday, April 23, to bring in front of the Associated Student (AS) Council an anti-Israel resolution targeting the usual US companies “supporting Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, and … bla-bla-bla.” One can admire the anti-Israel groups for […]

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

UCSD team wins ‘Jeopardy’ competition at Grossmont

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – With a steady drumbeat on the buzzer and an apparent photographic memory for every little fact in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, James Dohleman led his UCSD team to a runaway victory in a three-way contest against Pt. Loma Nazarene

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

P.A. – Hamas pact disappoints U.S. — Psaki

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– The United States government was “disappointed” in the announcement of a reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday, April 23. The official said the United States position remains that “any Palestinian government must unambiguosly and explicity commit to nonviolence, recognition of the state of

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Middle East, USA

Israelis celebrate Pesach on Tanzania safari

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Press Release) —  One hundred and seventy tourists  from Israel spent the Passover holidays on a wildlife Safari, their roundtrip air fare on an El Al charter.   The nine-day program included visits to the world famous UNESCO World Heritage sites, Serengeti National Park, home of the great animal migration, and the Ngorongoro Crater, largest intact

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International, Travel and Food

Measure to make initiatives more transparent advances

  SACRAMENTO (Press Release)–A bill that would bring greater transparency to California’s century-old ballot initiative system was approved on Tuesday, April 22, by lawmakers on the State Senate’s Elections Committee. The Ballot Initiative Transparency Act, SB1253, authored by Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D – Sacramento) was approved on a 4-to-1 vote and moves

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USA

Narratives recapture the chaos, pride of Six Day War

  The Lion’s Gate; On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield; Sentinel/ Penguin, (c) 2014. ISBN 978-1-59523-091-1, 430 pages including index and bibliography, $29.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘The Lion’s Gate’ is a fascinating attempt to present the events before and during the Six Day War of June 1967,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East

APN welcomes Hamas-PLO pact

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) –  The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Hamas on Wednesday, April 23,  ended a seven-year rift by reaching a historic reconciliation agreement. Americans for Peace Now welcomes the agreement. APN holds that unity between the Palestinian political factions and between the West Bank and Gaza is vital for empowering the Palestinian leadership

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Middle East, USA

2 Popes who built trust with Jews to be named saints

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC congratulates the Catholic Church on the canonizations of Pope John XXIII and John Paul II. “We rejoice with our Catholic friends at this unique recognition being given to the two Popes who were also the ones most responsible for the dramatic revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations in our times,” said

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International, Jewish History

LFJCC to host Yom HaShoah rites April 27

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On Sunday, April 27, at 1:30 p.m. the Jewish Federation of San Diego County will present a special Holocaust commemoration (Yom Hashoah) program, “Defiance, Rebellion and Resistance.” It will be held in the Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center,  4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The program will

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County