Donald H. Harrison

Jewish Book Fair schedules variety of programs in North San Diego County

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, thanks to a generous grant from the Leichtag Family Foundation, will present four events in North County at two locations.    On Sun., Nov. 14 at Temple Solel in Cardiff:  Sheila Isenberg will present her biography of heiress and resistance hero Muriel

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Placement of Israeli news indicator of media’s news judgment

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 Sharkansky

NJDC denounces House Republican leader for campaigning with ‘Nazi reenactor’

WASHINGTON, 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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USA

Feinstein lauds energy-label requirement for television sets

WASHINGTON, 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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Password-protected website created for campus advocates for Israel

LOS 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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‘Gee’s Bend’ quilts together a Civil Rights era story

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 & Broadcast

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 15, 1955, Part 4

Compiled 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 County

One Palestinian cartoon shows why there isn’t peace

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, & Education

McDonald’s row prompts Irish slaughterhouse to drop kosher and halal products

WEXFORD, 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 Food

Tutu urges Cape Town Opera to cancel Israel performances

CAPE 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 Food

Survivors’ attorney contends Vatican money laundered Holocaust assets

WASHINGTON, 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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