By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. –As we head into the Passover holiday, the peace initiative launched last summer by Secretary of State John Kerry to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians hangs in a curious limbo – certainly not dead but definitely not bursting with life either. With an April 29 deadline to agree […]
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations lauded the announcement by White House spokesman, Jay Carney, that a visa to enter the US will not be issued to the proposed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, who was involved in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two Jewish women won endorsements from the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee for offices that will be on the ballot in June. One is an incumbent, Congresswoman Susan Davis, and the other is a lawyer making a bid for a Superior Court judgeship, Carla Keehn. Davis is a familiar name on
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release). — In a list of intended nominations, U.S. President Barack Obama said he plans to appoint Rabbi Lee T. Bycel of Napa, California, as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The White House website provided the following biographical information about Rabbi Bycel: “Rabbi Lee T. Bycel is Rabbi
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USABy Stephen Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — After the latest collapse of negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’ir Lapid, Israel’s Minister of Finance and leader of the left of Center Yesh Atid (There is a Future) political party, said that the extreme Right prefers to wait for the Messiah instead of reaching a solution. Will it
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
BUDAPEST (WJC)–Several hundred protesters blocked work from continuing on a controversial monument in Budapest that Jewish critics say glosses over Hungary’s active role in the Holocaust. About 300 people on Tuesday angrily tore down a cordon erected by workers and occupied the site of the planned monument, which the Hungarian government says will mark all
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InternationalMeasure to bar envoy involved in Iran hostage crisis passes House, Senate (JNS.org) In a unanimous voice vote on Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would bar the newly appointed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi from entering America. Aboutalebi was part of an extremist student group that
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International
Editor’s Note: Zev Hurwitz, editor of The UCSD Guardian, recently responded to an article by AMCHA Initiative’s Tammi Rossman-Benjamin that was headlined “Insider’s guide to campus bias faced by Jews” in the March 31 online edition of San Diego Jewish World. Here is his response which was printed April 10 in “New Voices,” a national publication for Jewish
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Nadav Caine POWAY, California — When I arrived in San Diego County in 2007 to serve Ner Tamid Synagogue, it didn’t occur to me to lead a First Seder at my synagogue. “Doesn’t everyone already have plans with family for the First Seder?” I presumed. It never occurred to me
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Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ben Cohen/JNS.org When one in five people in a key European state votes for a neo-Nazi party, you might expect a furious response from the United States, the country that played a decisive role in defeating the Nazi menace during the Second World War. And you might also expect that American Jews would be
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International
HAIFA, Israel — Students at Technion had an engineering challenge for Passover. They were to build a device that could cross “The Red Sea”–actually a small pool of water–and then fill a glass with wine, in order to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Above is a video of how they approached the challenge. __________________________________________________________________ Click here
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When San Diego’s new police chief, Shelley Zimmerman, was growing up in a Jewish family with two brothers and a sister in Beachwood, Ohio, their father, Philip, a trial attorney, instilled in them what he called “The Zimmerman Code.” It sounds very much like the philosophy that
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Donald H. Harrison
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Of Many, a documentary produced by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will make its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17 in New York. Directed by Linda Mills, it features the friendship of Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.
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Travel and Food
By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK — On June 1, as it has for five decades, the annual Celebrate Israel Parade (formerly the Salute to Israel Parade)—billed as the American Jewish community’s largest show of pride and support for the Jewish state—steps off along Fifth Avenue in New York City. While the parade’s theme this
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Middle East, USA