Donald H. Harrison

Collaboration key to building Jewish community

By Jennie Starr SAN DIEGO — Jewish collaboration requires a courtship to understand synergies and opportunities, overcome pitfalls, and create mutually beneficial collaboration. It’s about creating something new and great neither organization could do itself.  We reach new people, build different and better programming, or simply help nurture and support each other’s existence. This kind […]

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Travel and Food

Rabbi Lenore Bohm named as Waters of Eden executive director

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Board of Directors of Waters of Eden: San Diego Community Mikvah and Education Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Rabbi Lenore Bohm as its new Executive Director. She began her tenure in early July, 2013. Contemporaneous to assuming this position, Rabbi Bohm resigned from the Board of the Leichtag

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San Diego County

Emmett Till’s 1955 murder helped spur Civil Rights Movement

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — August 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s unforgettable ‘I Have A Dream’ preachment—the culmination of the 1963 March on Washington. Ironically, the date will also mark the 58th anniversary of the brutal murder of Emmett Till, on August 28, 1955—an appalling vigilante

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USA

JNS news briefs: July 26, 2013

Israel suspends EU projects in Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) In an apparent response to the European Union’s recent decision to impose financial sanctions on Israeli communities located beyond the pre-1967 lines, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday ordered Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot to suspend several joint Israeli-EU projects

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International

JNS news briefs: July 25, 2013

Putin plans Iran visit (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit Tehran next month in an attempt to restart talks over Iran’s nuclear program, Russian media reported. The visit is reportedly scheduled for either August 12 or 16, according to Iranian and Russian foreign ministry officials speaking with Russian daily

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International

Bipartisan San Diego elected officials tour Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– A bipartisan delegation of prominent San Diego-area officials is traveling in Israel for intensive dialogue and briefings. The educational seminar, led by Project Interchange, an educational institute of AJC, in cooperation with the JCRC (Jewish Community Relations Council) and the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, follows a similar seminar for San

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: July 24, 2013

Bereaved families angered by plan to release Palestinian prisoners (JNS.org) Families of terror victims are harshly criticizing the Israeli government’s plan to release 85 Palestinians imprisoned prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian Authority ahead of renewed peace talks. Arnold Roth—whose 15-year-old daughter, Malki, was murdered along with 14

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International

Holocaust Survivors tell their history at Grossmont College

Editor’s Note: The presentation by Max and Rose Schindler at Grossmont College made a deep impression on many listeners.  We have run one news story already, and here is another account provided by a former editor of the Grossmont Summit. By William Dudley EL CAJON, California –Around fifty Grossmont College community members, including participants in

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San Diego County