By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There is nothing wrong with the article in the New York Times under the headline, “March in Israel Ends in Clashes In Arab Town.” It correctly describes a march of Israel’s extreme religious-nationalist Jewish right, the organizational descendants of Meir Kahane, in the Arab city of Umm El-Fahm. Umm El-Fahm is the […]
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Ira SharkanskyWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- Wednesday evening it was announced on disgraced House candidate Rich Iott’s website that House Republican Leader John Boehner — the self-described House Speaker hopeful — would campaign with Nazi reenactor Rich Iott this Saturday. National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) President and CEO David A. Harris issued the following statement in response
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced that starting May 10, 2011, manufacturers must display EnergyGuide labels on television sets, offering consumers information about how much energy different models use. The new rule comes in the wake of a December 2009 letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz sent by U.S. Senator
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USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs launched a password-protected website Wednesday, Oct. 27 to help students pro-actively counter divestment campaigns on campus. Campus divestment resolutions are the latest tool of anti-Israel activists who want to isolate and demonize Israel. StandWithUs developed the website with students who fought divestment resolutions at UC Berkeley and UC
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By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — It takes more than lynching, water hoses, police batons or stampeding horses to stop a movement and keep a people down. The story of such a people caught in the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement is documented, to some degree, in Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s Gee’s Bend
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff $220,000—Too Much? (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, April 15, 1955, Page 7 The United Jewish Fund Drive for $220,000 will prove this year whether we as a community along with every other Jewish community in the United States, are willing to meet our obligations at home and abroad. The
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World is now offering free subscriptions for busy readers who simply don’t have the time to check our website several times a day to see what’s new. Those who subscribe using the box in the left hand column of the home page will receive each evening
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — After fifteen years of following the Palestinian Authority (PA) media on a daily basis, I’ve never seen anything that sums up the problem of why there’s no peace better than this cartoon in al-Hayat al-Jadida, the official PA newspaper. If only the Western mass media ran this cartoon the situation
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release)–The judges have ruled and this year’s top five finalists for the Jewish Community Hero Award given out by the Jewish Federations of North America are: Dmitriy Salita, Jay Feinberg, Mordechai Tokarsky, Stephen Kutner and Zvi Gluck. More than 300,000 votes were cast in this year’s contest and the finalists will now
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USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–The Jewish Agency for Israel has earmarked US$ 4.7 million to help bring the remaining 8,700 Ethiopians claiming Jewish ancestry and seeking to make aliyah to Israel. The vote at the organization’s Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem was held in anticipation of a cabinet meeting set to take place early next week, in
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Middle EastWEXFORD, Ireland(WJC) — A slaughterhouse here that supplies meat to many London-area stores has stopped kosher slaughter following a protest by the fast food chain McDonald’s, the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ reports. McDonald’s has been under fire in recent days following media reports that halal meat, which is ritually slaughtered for Muslims, is used by some of the
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Travel and FoodCAPE TOWN, South Africa (WJC)– The retired Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu has urged the Cape Town Opera to abandon an upcoming trip to Israel, saying that Palestinians would not have equal access to the performance. “Cape Town Opera should postpone its proposed tour next month until both Israeli and Palestinian opera
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (WJC)–Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia have accused the Vatican Bank of helping Nazi allies launder their stolen valuables and asked the European Commission to investigate their claims, the news agency ‘Bloomberg’ reports. “We are requesting the commission open an inquiry into allegations of money laundering of Holocaust victim assets by financial organs associated with,
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Saving Henry: A Mother’s Journey by Laurie Strongin, Hyperion, 2010, 271 pages including epilogue, $22.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Laurie Strongin comes to speak at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Lawrence Family JCC, many in the San Diego Jewish Book Fair audience will attend not only to meet an author, but
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