LA JOLLA, California — Our Jewish license plate sleuth Melanie Rubin has found another Jewish license plate, Macabbi, for our online collection. The plate refers to the Jewish athletic games in which athletes from around the world compete in Israel.
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Travel and FoodENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Guardians of San Diego hosted its 19th Annual Golf & Tennis Tournament July 19 at the exclusive, championship course at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, while tennis players competed in round robin play also at the beautiful Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club. The event was a tremendous success with all proceeds directly
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By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California – The actors are terrific and their characters are complex, varied, and funny enough to keep you entertained and engaged for two hours. Unfortunately, the play goes on for three… The play, written and directed by Allen Barton, is Engagement, now having its world premiere at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. And it starts off with a screaming tirade
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Cynthia CitronBy Rabbi Dow Marmur TORONTO–A scandalous aspect of virtually all religions has been their treatment of women. My own has shunned many excesses — stoning for alleged adultery, so-called honour killings or officially putting the ordination of women in the same category as pedophilia — but it nevertheless has a history of embarrassing discrimination. One
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–More than two million overseas visitors arrived in Jerusalem during a recent year. The attractions are well maintained places linked to individuals and events featured in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and a functioning Old City enclosed by walls built in ancient times and last reconstructed in the 16th century. The
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Jerusalem. Both leaders agreed a tightening of relations between the two Mediterranean nations. The visit came at a time of crisis in the once-warm relationship between Israel and Greece’s arch-rival Turkey. “At the end of the meeting they agreed to
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Middle EastMALMO, Sweden (WJC)–A firecracker has exploded on the steps of the synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, a day after a bomb threat was taped to the building. The explosion happened in the early hours of Friday. A bomb threat written on paper had reportedly been taped to the synagogue on the previous evening.
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Travel and FoodLONDON (WJC)–American movie director Oliver Stone has alleged that Jewish control of the media was preventing an open debate about the Holocaust. Stone told the British newspaper ‘The Sunday Times’ that the Jewish lobby had been controlling Washington’s foreign policy for years. In the interview, Stone said public opinion in America was focused on the
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Middle East, USAANKARA (WJC)–An Israeli women’s volleyball team was assailed by protestors while playing against Serbia in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday. Rioters carrying Palestinian flags clashed with a large police force deployed at the event. The match was closed to the public because of security concerns. Authorities in Ankara imposed heavy security on the European
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Middle EastBy Joseph Toltz MELBOURNE, 26 July – A special performance of the music of the Theresienstadt Ghetto (Terezin) was presented in Melbourne on Sunday, July 25. Terezin, a small garrison town built in 1780 by Emperor Franz-Josef II, lies peacefully among meadows and gardens, 38 miles northwest of Prague. To us, its German name is
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Middle East, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Society News Southwestern Jewish Press, October 15, 1954, Page 3 Nathan Halle, 84 years “young,” has just returned from a three month’s vacation in Europe and the East Coast. * It won’t be all work for Carl Esenoff when he attends the annual meeting of the American Institute
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Brandeis Women To Meet For Dessert Nov. 1 Southwestern Jewish Press, October 29, 1954, Page 4 The first semi-annual Membership Meeting of the San Diego Chapter of the National Women’s Committee of Brandeis University will be held Monday, November 1, at the home of Mrs. William Carter, 2171
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The late Ed McMahon, a former colleague on NBC’s “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” might have introduced Shelly Cohen on Sunday afternoon, July 25, at the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s pop concert, with a drawn out “Heeeeeere’s Shelly!” Such an introduction would have been in keeping with the show business
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Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Bonds For Israel Presents Noted Singer Southwestern Jewish Press, October 15, 1954, Page 1 Jan Peerce, one of the world’s leading singers, and for twelve years the top tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, will be guest artists, Sunday, October 24, at a city7 wide banquet at El Cortez
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