Donald H. Harrison

Hadassah president reaffirms commitment to hospitals

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The national board of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA) sent a message this week to the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) and those it serves expressing solidarity during HMO’s restructuring process. HMO’s board announced on February 7 that it would apply to the Court for a relief under Section […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Alternative to two-state solution won’t benefit Israel

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Chapter 16 of the memoir, Once Upon a Country, by the distinguished Palestinian public intellectual, spokesman, activist, philosopher and current president of Al Quds University Sari Nusseibeh is called, “Annex Us!” It tells how he rattled Israelis and confused Palestinians by proposing that Israel annex the West Bank and Gaza.

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Middle East

Yvonne Greenberg, teacher and journalist, dies at 82

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Cultural affairs journalist Marion Yvonne Greenberg, 82,  died February 11 at Emeritus in the Carmel Valley neighborhood Born to Paul and Friedel Blumenthal (Haimann) in Mexico City on August 20, 1931, she graduated from the American School in San Antonio,Texas in 1948. Fluent in Spanish and English, she graduated from The

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San Diego County

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1957, Part 2

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

Beth El ponders next step in alleged embezzlement

By Suzanne Pollak Senior Writer. Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — The just departed executive director of Adas Israel Congregation has admitted to intentionally stealing at least $390,000, deceptive record keeping and illegal transferring of funds from a California synagogue during the time he was executive director there. Eric S. Levine, who was asked to

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San Diego County

Rabbi David Sandmel to direct ADL Interfaith Affairs

NEW YORK (Press Release)–A rabbi, educator and scholar who has led interreligious efforts on behalf of the Reform Judaism movement and has spearheaded Catholic-Jewish dialogue in Chicago has been appointed the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Director of Interfaith Affairs. Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, Ph.D., who most recently served as a Senior Advisor on Interreligious Affairs for

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Travel and Food

Mega-Church emphasizes love of Scripture, Israel

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California—The senior pastor whose  mega-church includes architectural homages to the Holy Land recently was joined in marriage by a Christian Zionist leader from the San Francisco area with ties to the family of Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler.  Now, the Rev. Jim Garlow and his bride, Rosemary Schindler Garlow, are

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Donald H. Harrison