Donald H. Harrison

Meinl elected president of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress

JERUSALEM (WJC) – Delegates at the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Assembly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 18,  elected the British-Austrian businessman Julius Meinl, 54, as the organization’s new president. Meinl succeeds Vadim Shulman, who did not stand for re-election. The assembly confirmed Josef Zissels of Ukraine as chairman of the General Council and Mikhail Chlenov […]

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International

JNS news briefs: February 18, 2014

Boycotters of Israel are ‘classical anti-Semites in modern garb,’ Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Boycotters of Israel are “classical anti-Semites in modern garb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of leaders visiting Jerusalem with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday. “I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing,

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International

AJC lauds Peru for warm relations with Israel

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC lauded Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s visit to Israel this week. “Peru has raised the bar for South American relations with Israel,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute (LLAI). “We remember that Peru supported Israel’s bid for statehood in 1947,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1957, Part 3

Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy 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 per article,  to Family

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Adventures in SD History

On Sunday, the rabbi’s and Audrey’s nest was empty

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Samantha, the third among our four children in a hyphenated family, departed Sunday, Feb. 16,  for six months abroad—in South America. She’s been there before; the mosaic of Mapuche cultures, the agrarian hills and low-lying villages, the Polynesian footprints, the vineyards, the quad-gods and mingled human-animal cosmology, the

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Travel and Food

Yeshiva U model UN allows head-on focus on issues

STAMFORD, Conn.—The United Nations is in session. Sam Collins.  Croatian delegate to the World Intellectual Property Organization, rises to address the debate on a topic currently occupying the Global Access to Knowledge Movement (A2K): Should free or low-cost smartphones be distributed to populations of developing countries? He suggests, “Instead of giving them information, let us

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Science, Medicine, & Education