By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Steven Goldberg, a Los Angeles attorney who is national vice chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, claims he has overwhelming support in a straw poll of the ZOA membership to replace Morton A. Klein as the organization’s president. Conducted over a three-day period, and sent to 1,099 members […]
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Donald H. HarrisonEditor’s Note: In case you don’t speak Hebrew and don’t know airline codes, we offer these two glossary items for the following press release from El Al Air Lines. 1) Matmid is a Hebrew word meaning, “cool” or “fabulous!” 2) LY is the code on airline tickets for El Al. Having established that, here’s El
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC is profoundly disappointed with a senior UN official’s endorsement of blatant attacks on Israel in a new UN report on economic integration in the Arab world. Rima Khalaf, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), declared that the report accuses Israel
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal, released Tuesday, March 4, would slash nearly $200 million from Israeli Cooperative Programs, joint U.S.-Israel missile defense projects including the Arrow II, Arrow III, and David’s Sling. These missile defense systems protect Israeli citizens from rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria into Israel and
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Travel and Food
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Five pro-Israel groups have written a letter calling on San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong to speak out against and provide counter programming to an anti-Israel forum scheduled on the campus on Thursday. Contending that sponsors of the forum recently met with known terrorists while traveling in the Middle East, the
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – Rabbi Steve Gutow and Larry Gold, President and Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, on Wednesday, March 5 , released the following statement on the violence in Ukraine: “With the rest of the world, we have looked with deep concern on the recent events in Ukraine. Our hope
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International
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — At the just concluded AIPAC conference, Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland praised the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel, saying it was an inspiration for programs in his own state to help at-risk youth. In a video which Cummings showed to the assemblage, the village’s longtime director, Chaim Peri, said
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Science, Medicine, & EducationOur thanks to Vivian Blackstone for spotting this video and passing it along to San Diego Jewish World!
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareBy Michael Ordman HERZLIYA, Israel — As readers of my weekly positive newsletter will know, there has been a huge surge in the volume of Israel’s medical discoveries, scientific advances, agricultural innovations, water technology and humanitarian activities recently. Despite the chaos in many other countries, I believe that better times are on their way for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Israeli Equestrian Team made history this past Friday (Feb. 28) when it competed in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup, the first time that an Israeli team has ever participated in an international equestrian competition. Though the Canadian team walked away with the hefty $75,000 prize, the Israeli team felt like champions
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Sports & CompetitionsRadical Islamic sheikh sentenced to eight months in jail for inciting violence (JNS.org) Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah was sentenced to eight months in prison Tuesday, after the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court found him guilty of inciting violence. Salah was indicted following a speech he gave in a 2007 Friday prayer service held in the
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International
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The IDF announced on Wednesday, March 5, it had seized a ship in the Red Sea carrying a weapons cargo destined to the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon declared that Iran was responsible and that it works constantly to destabilize the region. The ship was flying a
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Middle East
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Adventures in SD HistoryEAST LANSING, Michigan (Press Release)–Rabbi Ben Kamin’s new book Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers will be available from Michigan State University Press this April and is available for sale through its website www.msupress.msu.edu and at fine bookstores. The product of long-concealed FBI surveillance documents, Dangerous Friendship chronicles a
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Jewish History, USA