Donald H. Harrison

Lebanese-Canadian Bank named as money launderer with ties to Hizballah

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday  announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its subsidiaries (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Section 311) for the bank’s role in facilitating the money laundering activities of […]

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A bissel this, a bissel that–San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 17, February 9, 2011)   Compiled by Donald H. Harrison ___________________ Spotlight: Sy Brenner __________________     Veteran Sy Brenner, 88, was to have spoken to the Tifereth Israel Men’s Club about his experiences during World War II as a prisoner-of-war held by German captors who were unaware he was a Jew.  But now he

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Jewish population increase outpacing that of Arabs in Israel

TEL AVIV (WJC)–A new demographic study says that Israel’s Jewish population now stands at over 6.1 million and predicts that this growth trend would continue in the coming years. According to the survey by the end of 2010 the Jewish population in Israel totaled 6,122,000. At the same time, the country’s Arab population was 1,573,000.

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Middle East

Egypt crisis a political earthquake for the Middle East

NEW YORK (Press Release)— Speaking to a private, invitation-only audience of American Friends of Tel Aviv University on February 4,  Prof. Asher Susser, Senior Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, called the recent upheaval in Egypt indicative of a potentially greater Islamist influence in the region,

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Travel and Food

Legislation urges memorialization of Jewish chaplains at Arlington National Cemetery

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – A meaningful effort is underway to ensure that Jewish chaplains who perished while serving on active duty are no longer excluded from Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Representatives Anthony Weiner (D- New York) and Tom Rooney (R-Florida), along with Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York), have introduced a bipartisan congressional resolution

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Jewish Religion

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment’

By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO –In the early 1970’s, during the summer of my first year of teaching, I left New York City for the kibbutz adventure in Israel. I was first sent to Rosh Hanikra, a kibbutz right on the border with Lebanon. The kibbutz had just recently added some new volunteers to

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Travel and Food

Sherman to continue as top Democrat on House subcommittee on terror

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California) announced his selection as the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade to be chaired by Congressman Ed Royce (R-California). “I am honored to be selected by my colleagues to once again serve as the lead Democrat on the House Foreign

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USA

Jane Harman quits the Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Jane Harman (D-California) announced on Tuesday that she plans to resign her congressional seat to become the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,Washington, D.C.   President Barack Obama responded: “Through nearly two decades in Congress, Jane Harman has been a champion of our national security, from standing up for

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San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Our Disappeared’

  By Yvonne Greenberg     LA JOLLA, California — What started out as filmmaker’s Juan Mandelbaum’s hopeful search for his college girlfriend Patricia Dixon in his documentary, Our Disappeared, turns into a horrifying discovery that she was killed during Argentina’s “Dirty War” by the right wing junta.   During the “Dirty War,” from 1976-1983,

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 14, 1955, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World Another Milestone Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 5 The business of living has made some of us immune to the emotional impacts that hit our city from time to time. When we examined the completed building of the new Hebrew Home for the Aged, we could not

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

ZOA lauds Orange County district attorney for prosecution of UCI hecklers

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Office of the District Attorney in Orange County, Californai,  for criminally charging the 11 students who deliberately and repeatedly disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on February 8, 2010.  The 11 students – eight from UCI,

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