Donald H. Harrison

Jewish Agency refines its plans to introduce young Diaspora Jewry to Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Providing teens and young adults from abroad with a continuum of experiences in Israel and creating social action opportunities in Israel for young Israelis and Jews from abroad will serve as the focus of the work of the Jewish Agency for Israel, its Board of Governors decided Monday, Oct. 25. These areas of

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Middle East

Knesset member tweaks the nose of the United States, calls for war crimes investigation of U.S. role in Iraq

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My concern in political science is to observe, understand, and explain. I do not view myself as a partisan.   At times observation can be painful, as when a student in my seminar died in the explosion at the Hebrew University cafeteria, and the girl friend (now wife) of a

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

Pro-Palestinian cleric hijacks statement from Middle East bishops

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California– “Is ‘Palestinian-killer’ the new ‘Christ-killer’?” was the first question that occurred to me as I read news reports that a meeting of Catholic Bishops from the Middle East condemned Israel, called for withdrawal to 1967 borders, and asserted that Jews have no Biblical right to Israel. I just read the actual statement of

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Middle East

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 15, 1955, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish world staff Double Talk Southwestern Jewish Press, April 15, 1955, Page 5 By Janet & Linda Solof Hitting the spot was Easter vacation For “us kids” to get some relaxation So now we are studying very hard. Working for a good report card Seen enjoying vacation and the sun at

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

‘Hannukah Happening’ planned Dec. 5 at Lawrence Family JCC

LA JOLLA, CA (Press Release)– The 27th Annual Hanukkah Happening will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus,  on Sunday, December 5, , from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.   Hanukkah Happening is San Diego’s largest Hanukkah event for families and is fun for people of all ages and faiths. Price for

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Jewish book festival will feature three literary chefs

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair  presents three approaches to fresh, healthy and delicious food with Terra Restaurant’s Executive Chef, Jeff Rossman on Fri., Nov. 5 at 10 a.m.; kosher baker Paula Shoyer on Sun., Nov. 7 at  2 p.m.; and Sam “the Cooking Guy” Zien on

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

ZOA condemns honorary Oscar plans for Jean-Luc Godard

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for intending to award an honorary Oscar to French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a virulent anti-Semite of long-standing. Godard, one of the French New Wave film directors, like Francois Truffaut, with whom Godard fell out over anti-Semitic

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Travel and Food

Book takes unblinking look at Jewish Vilna’s destruction by the Nazis and others

 Stronger Than Iron by Mendel Balberyszski; Gefen Publishing  House; 331 pages; no price listed.  By Norman Manson         SAN DIEGO —  In utterly excruciating detail, this memoir tells the complete story of the destruction of one of the world’s great Jewish communities  –  Vilna, known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania” for at least two centuries

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Travel and Food

Bad news for Palestinians: Israel and U.S. focused on other matters

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two items are front and center in the Israeli media. One is American and one Israeli. Both are important in their own right, and may spill over to what had been the principal issue of the peace process.  Palestinians should be worrying that Americans are concerned with their dirty laundry,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Tin’ has comforting message for elementary school students

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California– Grossmont College Theatre Arts Prof. Jerry Hager wrote and directed Tin, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” that will be taken on tour at local elementary schools from now through Dec. 9.   Like many fairy tales, it has an important lesson. Previewed

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Donald H. Harrison

WikiLeaks disclosures prompt questions about kind of USA does Peres want Israel to support

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two questions come to mind on reading about the latest release of secret material by WikiLeaks:  Will this provide the same push to anti-war activists as the Pentagon Papers in 1971? and will anyone notice that the ugliness associated with the Americans and their allies dwarfs the charges levied against

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East