Donald H. Harrison

JNS news briefs: March 19, 2013

Israelis skeptical about Obama spurring peace (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Sixty-two percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not believe that U.S. President Barack Obama can bring about a real breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, according to a poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute on Tuesday. After pollsters divided participants by Israeli political party,

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, May 3, 1957, Part 2

Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, May 3, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman “Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves …” Thanks to the rain, the brown hills of San Diego are covered with green, splashed here and there with flame-colored bushes and yellow flowers. Even the bald mountains have

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, May 3, 1957, Part 1

$5000 Needed by Women to Reach Fund Drive Goal Southwestern Jewish Press, May 3, 1957, Pages 1, 6 One hundred eight five women contributed over $5,000 at the 3rd Women’s Division luncheon for $35 minimum givers chaired by Mrs. Irving Alexander and Mrs. E.A. Slayen, Co-Chairmen of the Women’ Division. Mrs. Myrtle Karp, dynamic woman

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Charlene Seidle is J.J. Greenberg award winner

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation have congratulated Charlene Seidle as the 2013 recipient of the J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award. Seidle, Senior Vice President of the Jewish Community Foundation and Executive Director and Vice President of the Leichtag Foundation, accepted the award at the Jewish Funders Network International Conference

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JNS news briefs: March 18, 2013

Report: Israel to ask for U.S. military action on Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli leaders intend to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to act militarily to stop Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday. In return, the U.S. president will likely ask Israel to

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