By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Vladimir Putin is sending mixed messages to the world. One day he says he’ll withdraw his troops from the border of eastern Uktaine; the next he is celebrating the triumph of the annexation of the Crimea. When reporters questioned what his plans for Ukrine were, he cryptically replied, “Donetsk don’t tell.”
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have returned from eight days in Northern Italy to the Middle East, where my residence is approaching 40 years. I’ve taken advantage of Israel’s location and airline connections over the years to all the countries of Western Europe except for Luxembourg and the even tinier ones, most of them
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (SDJW)– A group with the nickname of the “White Knights” has successfully raised $1 million to help save the San Diego Opera, with another $1 million campaign now spurred by a $500,000 matching grant offered by Gloria Rasmussen and Jay Merritt. The “White Knights” came into being after the Opera’s former General Director
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San Diego County
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, 10 U.S. senators called for the FCC to protect net neutrality and reject efforts by big cable companies to extort businesses for the right to provide content at the fastest Internet speeds. Net neutrality – the principle that all Internet
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Chairman Fred Upton requesting that – in the wake of NBA owner Don Sterling’s ban for life for racist comments – the Committee hold a hearing to examine another instance of racial insensitivity in sports: the
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Sports & Competitions, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed H.R. 4587, the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act. Co-introduced by Chairman Emeritus Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21), Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-5), Rep. Albio Sires (NJ-8), Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-9), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-5), Rep. Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Rep.
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International, USA
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, May 11th, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Friday, May 9, reintroduced legislation he first authored in 2009 to reduce tragically high rates of infant mortality. The Congressman’s Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act would create a national pilot program in cities
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called on the Coast Guard to detail how it plans to use inspection information to hold
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) – More than 100 prominent Orthodox rabbis, including the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Ha Rav Dovid Lau, have signed a petition urging action against the ongoing Arab attacks on the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. “The continuing Arab desecration of the Mount of Olives cemetery must no longer
Editor’s Note: This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community. We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge. The names of people we know are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Dozens of Congressmen, Senators and Jewish community leaders gathered on Wednesday, May 7, to celebrate the Jewish American Heritage Month in the ornate LBJ Room of the US Capitol. The annual event, organized by The Friedlander group, highlighted the work of 5 individuals who were chosen as honorees for their
By Ian Swanson Republished from The Hill WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is pressing the Chinese government to reopen a historic synagogue in Shanghai. In an interview with The Hill, Cantor said he’s requested a meeting with China’s ambassador to the U.S. to discuss the issue and expects to talk to
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International, USA
VIENNA (WJC) — Sixty-nine years after the end of World War II, nearly a third of Austrians would like to have a “strong leader” (Führer) at the helm of their country “who doesn’t have to deal with elections and a parliament”, according to a new study published on Wednesday in Vienna. Asked about what
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International, Jewish History
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Vandals have defaced a church in Jerusalem just a few weeks before Pope Francis visits the Holy Land. Israel Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said anti-Christian graffiti had been discovered on the outside wall of the church on Friday morning. The graffiti read “Price tag, King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage.” In addition,
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Middle East