SYDNEY (WJC)– Jewish and Christian leaders have met to heal the wounds caused by the National Council of Churches’ call last month for a boycott of Israeli goods made in the West Bank. The church council called for Australians to consider the boycott at the request of Middle Eastern churches. The president of the Executive Council […]
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Travel and FoodTEHERAN (WJC)–Iran has told Western nations to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it would not tolerate any interference in the matter as it was still under examination by the judiciary. “Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs,” Foreign Ministry spokesman
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Travel and FoodTEHERAN (WJC)–Iran has announced that it will start building the first of ten new uranium enrichment plants at a secret location “inside the mountains” in the spring of 2011. Iranian Vice-President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, announced that the search for sites for the facilities had ended. “The construction
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–Miriam, a prophet in Israel, led the dancing and singing after safely crossing through the parted sea. As a girl she had watched what happened to the basket containing her baby brother, and had the courage to speak to the Princess of Egypt suggesting that she find a nurse (Jochebed) for the
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, January 7, 1955, Page 3 Hoffer-Solomon Vows Exchanged On Sunday, Jan. 2, at 7:00 p.m., Barbara Solomon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon M. Solomon of San Diego, was wed to Harold Hoffer, son of Mrs. S. Hoffer of New York City. Rabbi Morton J. Cohn
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Adventures in SD History‘Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.’ – from The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Middle East, USACHICO, California (Press Release) — Scholars for Peace in the Middle East was made aware of the Globes report of August 15, 2010 which indicated that the Harvard Management Company had sold it’s Israel holdings, which immediately made its way to a number of anti-Israel organizations and websites. SPME, in concert with members of its Boycott,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Congregation Beth Am, a Conservative synagogue located off the 5 and 56 freeways in Carmel Valley, hosts its Annual Labor Day Picnic for current, new & prospective memberson Monday, September 6, from 11:00am to 2:00pm at Ashley Falls Park (on the corner of Del Mar Heights Road and Ashley Falls Drive). Join
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The San Diego Jewish Music Series kicks off it’s 2010-2011 season with a one-night only concert with jazz bassist Avishai Cohen and his band, Monday, October 25th at 7:00pm. The Music Series is part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – “From Desert to Desert: Southern California Artists from Israel” will be the subject of an exhibtion from Sept. 15 to Nov. 19 at the Gotthelf Art Gallery, part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus. Proceeds from the art for sale
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–This Egyptian princess going down to the Nile to bathe saw an infant in a basket. She realized it was most probably the desperate effort of an Israelite woman to save her little son. Her humanity triumphed over the Pharaoh’s edict to slaughter all male infants among the Israelites. She adopted
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–US President Barack Obama has defended a controversial plan to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York, saying Muslims had a “right to do so.” Speaking at a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner (iftar) at the White House, Obama said Muslims “have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else
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Travel and FoodANKARA (WJC)–Israel’s envoy to Turkey has not been invited to an ‘iftar’ dinner hosted by PM Erdogan’s party for representatives of the diplomatic corps in Turkey. Ambassador Gabi Levi did not receive an invitation to Ramadan fast-breaking dinner, to which all senior diplomats in Turkey have been invited for the past four years. The dinner is hosted
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, January 7, 1955, Pages 1,8 Jewish Welfare Agencies Hold First Annual Meeting San Diego’s Jewish Welfare organizations will gather for a joint annual meeting on Wednesday, January 19, 1955 in the Don Room of the El Cortez under the sponsorship of the San Diego Federation of
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