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Seattle transit rejects anti-Israel billboard campaign

SEATTLE, Washington (Press Release)–The anti-Israel “Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign” group’s bus billboard ad campaign on Seattle buses, that was supposed to begin next Monday, December 27, was rejected on Thursday, Dec. 23. Citing the potential for disruption to transit service, King County Executive Dow Constantine on Thursday approved an interim policy from Metro Transit that calls for […]

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2010 was busy, productive year for revived Latvian Jewish community

By Rabbi Menachem BarkahanRIGA, Latvia — Here are some of the highlights of 2010 for Shamir, the Jewish community of Latvia:  The Riga  Ghetto  and  Latvian  Holocaust  museum  were  opened in September  2010 http://www.rgm.lv/?lang=en  The Second International Festival of Jewish culture gathered more than 4, 000  visitors  for  10  events  in  Latvia  and  Lithuania, including international  celebrities

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Commentary: Why Arabs may be drawn into Iran’s orbit

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — What is the highest priority for Iranian foreign policy–I mean the official and public foreign policy, not spreading revolution and terrorism–today? According to the new foreign minister it’s developing strong relations with Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Ali Akbar Salehi, who by the way holds a degree from the Massachusetts

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Middle East

Jews in Japanese-controlled Indonesia suffered worse fate than Jews in other Japanese controlled lands

HAIFA (Press Release)–New facts are being revealed about another Jewish population that was persecuted during WWII: Indonesian Jewry – of which very little has been known to date. This community suffered greatly under Japanese occupation, and in a study that set out to provide a first and in-depth examination of the causes for the prejudice

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Travel and Food

Holocaust artist Elmo Gideon dies at 86

THOMASVILLE, Georgia  (Press Release)– Holocaust  artist Elmo Gideon, 86, died Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at his home and studios here after a lengthy illness. He has been described as an “artist who borders on being an elemental force” whose own ambitions guided him in the development of revolutionary paints and sculpting compounds, technique, form and application that

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Private employees show greater ’emotional intelligence’ than public employees, study indicates

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–A new study from the University of Haifa shows that within the private sector high levels of emotional intelligence empower positive attitudes towards the workplace and decrease negative behavior; however, the same effect was not found within the public sector. “The results of this study emphasize the existence of significant behavioral differences

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Haifa’s Christians have Christmas tree made from recycled water bottles

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― This year, Christians living in Haifa are having trouble finding a real Christmas tree ― earlier in 2010 a devastating forest fire that killed 43 people also wiped out more than 5 million trees in the nearby Carmel Mountain range, making it harder for them to justify using “real” trees to

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Middle East

In retrial, torturers and murderers of Ilan Halimi draw longer prison terms

PARIS (WJC)–The President of the Council of French Jewish Organisations, Richard Prasquier, said he was satisfied with the retrial of the self-proclaimed “Gang of Barbarians” who tortured to death Ilan Halimi five years ago. A court of appeal handed stiffer sentences to the two main accomplices of gang leader Yusuf Fofana, who had their convictions

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, July 8, 1955, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Sarfan-Lansky Wed in Candlelight Ceremony Southwestern Jewish Press, July 8, 1955, Page 3 On Sunday, June 19th, at 6 p.m., Shirley Mae Sarfan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sarfan, exchanged marriage vows with Jordan Norman Lansky, son of Mrs. Rose Domnitz and Mr. Sam Lansky.  The candelight

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San Diego Opera unveils 46th International Season

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There is nothing quite as exciting as an opera. It has all the elements you would want to see and hear in theatre. Beautiful music, dance, drama (oft times melodrama) comedy, tragedy, stunning costumes and scenery and of course acting are all combined to make this wonderful medium unique.

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

ADL calls for denunciation of anti-Semitic Greek Orthodox bishop

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday urged the Greek Orthodox Church to publicly denounce blatantly anti-Semitic comments made by one of its bishops. During an interview with a popular television show in Greece, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus blamed Jews for orchestrating the Holocaust and accused “world Zionism” of a conspiracy

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Lame Duck Congress ratifies START, repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and soon will slink out of Washington

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The thoroughly repudiated, lame duck Congress, holding but a 13% approval rating in the polls, took up two big pieces of legislation that were better left to the incoming class – not because the results would necessarily have been different, but because they are important pieces of national business.

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Religious Action Center, NJDC welcome START treaty ratification

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — A pair of Jewish groups, in statements, have pointed to the possible impact on the Iranian nuclear buildup of the Senate’s ratification on Wednesday, Dec. 22. of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia.  Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, headed by Rabbi David Saperstein: “We applaud the Senate’s

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