By Marnie Winston MacCauley LAS VEGAS, Nevada — In Fred A. Bernstein’s “The Jewish Mothers’ Hall of Fame,” Florence, a Holocaust survivor and mother of rock star, Gene Simmons, shared her Yiddishkeit with Gene’s pop-star pals. One year Gene brought Cher and her family to his mom’s home for a Passover Seder. Mom was thrilled. […]
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — The Leichtag Foundation has announced that Daron “Farmer D” Joffe will assume the position of Ranch Development Director effective April 29, 2014. A nationally recognized organic/biodynamic farmer, educator, speaker, and eco-entrepreneur, Joffe has consulted with the Foundation for the last 18 months on the development of the former Paul Ecke Ranch in
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
OCEANSIDE, California (SDJW)– Anti-Islamist speaker and columnist Pamela Geller, in a weekend appearance at the Iglesia del Senor Jesucristo en America, called for Christians to unite with Jews to resist efforts by Islamists around the world to impose sharia law on others. In a speech that was translated phrase by phrase into Spanish, Geller said
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) is spearheading a drive in the House of Representatives to boost federal funding for medical research. In a bipartisan letter to House appropriators, 190 Representatives signed the Davis letter urging $32 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health. “San Diego is the cornerstone of medical
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis joined colleagues from the Alameda, Orange and Riverside County District Attorney’s offices to support passing Senate Bill 939, authored by State Senator Marty Block. The bill would make it possible for prosecutors to file multiple charges against a defendant who commits human trafficking-related offenses in
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San Diego County
BORDEAUX, France (WJC) — A French court handed a 28-year-old Moroccan native a fine of € 3,000 (US$ 4,100) for performing the controversial quenelle gesture in front of a synagogue. The tribunal in the southwestern city of Bordeaux last Wednesday convicted the man of incitement to racial hatred. The man, who was not named in media
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International
BUDAPEST (WJC) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party narrowly defended its two-thirds majority in elections for the country’s legislature, but significant gains the extreme-right Jobbik party caused concern. With over 98 percent of the votes counted, Hungary’s National Election Office said Fidesz had won 133 seats in the 199-seat legislature. The right-wing Fidesz and
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International
KAIFENG, China (Press Release) – Nearly 100 members of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, are expected to attend a first-of-its-kind traditional Passover Seder that will take place next Monday, April 14, at the start of the holiday in Kaifeng. The Seder, which is being sponsored by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, will be conducted
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International, Jewish Religion
By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org The controversy over the Harvard University students who recently posed, smiling, at Yasser Arafat’s grave sent a shot of pain through every one of us who has lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks that Arafat and his allies have waged over the years. But it must have been
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week While the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process grabs the latest headlines, a growing group of organizations is calling attention to what it believes to be a major obstacle in fostering understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
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Travel and FoodSamaria-based Ariel University left out of Israeli universities heads’ conference (JNS.org) Representatives from Ariel University—the first accredited Israeli university located beyond the Green Line—were absent from the invitation list to Sunday’s Committee of University Heads conference on the future of higher education in Israel. Ariel University said in a statement, “The Committee of University Heads
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International
JERUSALEM (TNA) – The Jewish Agency for Israel is hosting this week a special Passover camp experience for some 100 children from southern Israel whose lives have been affected by rocket fire from Gaza and by other terror attacks. The program is run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror and funded by contributions
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