JERUSALEM (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Oct. 4, condemned the torching of a West Bank mosque in the village of Beit Fajar. According to reports, the mosque was set aflame, and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim graffiti was found on the walls. The incident followed at least two other acts of vandalism on mosques […]
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Middle East
By Bruce Kesler and Rabbi David Frank ENCINITAS, California — Sometimes we’re lucky to have friends with whom we can have civil conversations, even when we disagree. Fewer times, we’re even more fortunate to have a friend whose learning and temperance wakens new thinking in ourself. Such a friend earns the right to be listened
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Oct. 4, called on the University Council of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa to “make a stand for academic freedom and fairness” and reaffirm its relationship with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and reject a “falsehood-filled campaign” to politicize a
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. His lecture
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Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has reported to Congressman Brad Sherman about the progress that the Department of Education is making on the issue of whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus. “I’m extremely encouraged as a result of my conversation with Secretary Duncan,”
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–As a child in London in the 1950s I enjoyed listening to the radio on the days that I managed to persuade my mother that I was too ill to go to school. Somewhere between ‘Whistle While you Work’ and ‘Mrs. Dale’s Diary’ was a programme where someone with a German accent
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
Story and photos by Robert Sanchez LA MESA—As the smell of kettle corn wafted through the air, La Mesa Boulevard was crammed with people of different ethnic backgrounds and different age groups. All had come to downtown La Mesa over the Oct. 1-2 weekend to enjoy the festivities of this German-inspired cultural festival known
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Travel and Food
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD–Cecil B. DeMille once waited five months for his peacocks to shed so that Edith Head could use their feathers in the spectacular cape that she designed for Hedy Lamarr to wear in Samson and Delilah. A tasty tidbit offered by Edith Head—in the person of Susan Claassen—at the El Portal
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Cynthia CitronWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management in the U.S. State Department, spoke on a conference telephone call to reporters on Sunday about the department’s Europe Travel Alert. See Europe Travel Alert OPERATOR: Thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are going to be in a listen-only mode. During the question-and-answer session,
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Ben Snyder Leads Jewish War Veterans Southwestern Jewish Press, March 18, 1955, Page 7 In their annual election of officers held March 2 and the War Memorial Bldg., San Diego Post 185 elected the following officers: Commander, Ben Snyder; Vice Commanders, Sidney Steckel, John Kluchen; Finance Officer, J.
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) – A former head of Israel’s Mossad security service, Maj. Gen. Danny Yatom, will be the featured speaker at a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces kosher dinner on Saturday, Oct. 30, at La Jolla Hilton Torrey Pines, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road. A reception will begin at 7:15 p.m. with dinner
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Laurel Corona, whose book, Penelope’s Daughter has its official release on Tuesday, Oct 5, will be making the rounds of local bookstores to tell how she created a new daughter for Penelope and Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, Corona, a frequent contributor to San Diego Jewish
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Travel and Food
HAIFA (Press Release)–The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi Ben Avraham, discovered for the first time an area of reefs with deep-sea corals in the Mediterranean, offshore of Israel. This area apparently stretches over a few kilometers,
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Science, Medicine, & Education
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Harbor Development (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, March 18, 1955, Page 5 Port commerce means dollars and jobs. A thriving Port of San Diego is one logical way to bring new dollars into this community It means, simply, capitalizing on a long standing asset of the region—San Diego Bay.
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