By Alan Craig, PhD SDEROT, Israel — As a frequent visitor to Israel I like to think I know my way around. Heading north through Herzliya or east to Jerusalem is to pass through familiar territory. South of Tel Aviv is another matter entirely. But getting to Sderot from Tel Aviv turns out to be […]
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Middle East
RIGA (WJC)– Latvia’s Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma sacked a member of her government for attending a pro-Nazi rally in the capital Riga. Environment Minister Einars Cilinskis of the rightist National Alliance participated in the annual march of Waffen-SS veterans and their supporters. About 1,500 people attended the event on Sunday, which has been held in the Latvian capital for nearly two decades. Cilinskis ignored a
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InternationalBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Ninety-seven percent of the voters in the referendum held in Crimea this weekend voted to join the Russian Federation. Today the 3 % who voted against joining the Russian Federation were expelled from the province. * The Boston and New York St. Patrick Day parades barred openly gay groups from marching
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAttention Family Historians: If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5 payment
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Adventures in SD History
By Tawny Maya McCray The Seaside Courier ENCINITAS — A nonprofit has been transforming what is left of the once-expansive Ecke Ranch into a laboratory for putting Jewish ideals into practice. The last 67 acres of the once- famous former poinsettia fields in Encinitas were sold to the Leichtag Foundation in 2012 and the new
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San Diego County, The World We Share
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has established a new speaker series dubbed “FED Talks.” For the first event Federation will be hosting three of San Diego’s brightest Jewish biotech experts at the new San Diego Public Library on March 20, at 6pm. Guest speakers will include: Dr. Philip Low,
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San Diego Calendar
By Jonathan Spyer HERZLIYA, Israel –A number of events in recent weeks cast light on the current intersecting lines of conflict in the Middle East. They reflect a region in flux, in which new bonds are being formed, and old ones torn asunder. But amid the confusion, a new topography is emerging. This was the
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –In an article published in April 2009, I wrote the following [with added comments]: “Iran couldn’t be more blatant in calling for Israel’s destruction. This it proclaims loud and clear, from many venues, including New York City, home of the United Nations. That Iran also wishes to destroy America
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
CHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release) — The Central Conference of American Rabbis will honor Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., at the Crown Family Symposium on Rabbinic Leadership on Monday, March 31, 2014, as part of the 125th annual CCAR Convention, in Chicago. The CCAR is the representative organization of nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis, the world’s largest group
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Jewish Religion, USA
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Three decades before The Temptations erupted out of Motown to wow America with their smooth harmony and their graceful, synchronized dance moves, there were the Comedian Harmonists—six men in Berlin who in the late 1920s and ’30s became the toast of Europe. They had beautiful voices and carefully synchronized
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC announces the publication of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany. Authored by Charlotte Bonelli, director of AJC Archives, and published by Yale University Press, Exit Berlin offers unique insights into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the perspective of one young German Jewish woman.
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Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release)-– Democratic Reps. Susan Davis and Scott Peters, along with members of San Diego’s medical research community joined together on Monday, March 17, to call on Congress to increase federal funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds critical medical research. Budget cuts threaten this research and San Diego’s economy.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–During the past three weeks, four outstanding young Israel-born artists performed in La Jolla. Three of the young men call themselves Israelis and had their early training in the music schools of Israel. The fourth, an Arab, born in Nazereth, calls himself Palestinian, and received his early training with private teachers
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Press Release)– Trinity College professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar are embarking on an online national survey of Jewish university and college students. This large-scale study is a follow-up to their 2013 online national survey of the worldviews and opinions of all American college students. The focus on college students differentiates the Trinity
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education