By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — While Congresswoman Giffords continues to recover in the ICU at University Medical Center in Tucson and congressional staffers honor the slain and the survivors with a moment of silence, my question is what did we learn from this horrific experience? Everyone who uses violent metaphors is to blame– The […]
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(Column 7, January 10, 2011) By Donald H.Harrison Tributes to Debbie Friedman, z”l San Diego’s Agency for Jewish Education, commenting on the death of Jewish composer Debbie Friedman on Sunday, commented that “Debbie was a great friend of the AJE, having performed many concerts during the years of Jewish Education Week, and at other numerous
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The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010. 603 pages By David Strom SAN DIEGO–All of us have faced and crossed some invisible bridges in our lives. Did you notice the bridge you crossed from childhood into adulthood? Did you feel it? We often feel the “rocky and sometimes stormy bridge”
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) supports the Israeli government’s formation of a Knesset committee to investigate the funding of Israeli groups that condemn the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and assist foreign campaigns seeking to delegitimize and demonize Israel. The parliamentary committee will be charged with determining if the groups in question
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuyesday welcomed the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to “retire” the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. The recommendation, approved in a vote Saturday at a meeting in Nashville, Tenn., will be sent to the full board of directors within the
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The 21st Anniversary San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 10-20, 2011. The San Diego Jewish Film Festival showcases more than 45
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–The US Department of Homeland Security has listed Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords’ Jewish faith as being a possible factor in her shooting. An department memo says that her assailant, Jared Lee Loughner, mentioned American Renaissance, an extremist anti-immigrant group, in some of his own postings. “The group’s ideology is anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement in response to the demolition of the Shepherd’s Hotel in East Jerusalem, aimed at clearing land for the construction of new Jewish housing in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood: “The demolition of the Shepherd’s Hotel in East Jerusalem is a deeply provocative action,
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) ― In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology –– and promoting efficiency metrics to make the technology marketable. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is providing new evidence to challenge recent “charge” measurements for increasing solar panel efficiency. Offering a less expensive, smaller solution than
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Debbie Friedman, still a young woman, always a poet, died Sunday. If she had earned a few dollars for all the times people have sung, hummed, chanted, or performed one of her hundreds of modern psalms without accreditation or royalties, she would have been a very wealthy woman. But instead
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Jewish ReligionJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Government of Israel approved $100 million in funding for Taglit-Birthright Israel over the next three years, speaking Thursday (Jan. 6) to three thousand young adults at the winter Mega Event in Jerusalem. The goal of the funding increase is to enable Taglit-Birthright Israel to bring
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –A new tactic in the war against Israel is “delegitimization,” the effort to say that Israel is different from, and less than, other countries. It is, for example, the only member of the United Nations that has to insist upon its “right to exist.” And what other countries do as
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations expressed its sympathy for the families of the people killed and its prayers for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and all of those wounded in Saturday’s shooting attack in Arizona. “We share in the shock and sorrow at the senseless murderous attack in Tucson. We
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– WebYeshiva.org, the first fully-interactive Torah study program on the Web, and the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) announce on Monday a new partnership. The partnership will broaden WebYeshiva.org and LSJS’s reach to students based in the UK, Western Europe, and South Africa. The partnership between the London School of Jewish Studies and WebYeshiva.org
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