SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is profoundly disappointed with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s decision to sign what is the most reckless state immigration law in the country. The ADL was founded 97 years ago with the mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” With […]
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USA
By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California–At the time that his most popular songs were put together in a musical compendium called “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,” he was. But just a decade later he was dead of lung cancer at the age of 49, and his emotionally charged ballads had gone
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Cynthia Citron, USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–Shir L’Chaim Variety Show, a concert to benefit Jewish Family Service Older Adult Centers, will take place on Sunday, May 23 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Cost of tickets, which includes a reception with complimentary Hors D’Oeuvres at Classic Residence by Hyatt, is
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San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It is commonplace to see elementary school classes walking through Cabrillo National Monument on history field trips. But similar field trips to Cabrillo may also be appropriate for high school trigonometry classes – especially for those students who wonder, “What’s the point of this stuff? When would we ever
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — UCSD has become a campus battlegrounds in the movement by pro-Palestinians to have Associated Student oganizations divest their funds from companies doing business with Israel. A resolution that will go before the student Senate on Wednesday, April 28, specifically targets United Technologies, which it says makes Apache helicopters,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–There was no particular courage required to excoriate the government of Israel when its housing minister announced the construction of so many new home units in the Jerusalem area exactly when Vice President Joe Biden was arriving in the country to discuss peace talks. Many in the Israeli establishment and
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Members of the La Playa Trail Association will place a monument at 10:15 a.m., Thursday, April 29, at the corner of Rosecrans Street and Avenida de Portugal to mark the location where the town of Roseville was founded in 1869 by Louis Rose. The monument duplicates one that had been erected
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
SAN DIEGO—Israeli song, Israeli dance, Israeli politics, Israeli geography, Israeli foods, Israeli merchandise, Israeli trips… they all were components on Sunday, April 25, of the Israel Independence Festival held on the grounds of San Diego Jewish Academy. Shoshi Bogoch, Israeli shelicha who helped organize the festival, estimated that perhaps 2,000 San Diegans toured the multi-level
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Whether it’s the Commuter Terminal mural of Charles A. Lindbergh by John J. Whalen, the sculpture by Paul T. Granlund at Terminal Two representing him as a boy and as a man, the bust by Paul Fjelde or the scale model of “The Spirit of St. Louis,”
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Donald H. HarrisonHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Indian Ambassador to Israel Navtej Sarna presented President of the University of Haifa, Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, with a unique and significant gift: the entire writings of Mahatma Gandhi. The University of Haifa’s library will be the only library in all of Israel to hold the entire collection of these manuscripts written by
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–For those of us more interested in world affairs than sport, “The Great Game” was the competition between British and Czarist Empires for Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia, with implications for India and access to the sea, that prevailed through much of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. Israel
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Sermon on an athletic field 4S RANCH, California — Rabbi Baruch Lederman of Congregation Kehillas Torah in San Diego spotted this sign on the fence of an athletic field in this San Diego County community.
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Travel and Food
By Ulla Hadar JERUSALEM–In a time when not a day passes without a story of corruption or a new investigation in the local authorities and in the parlamentary offices, it is my pleasure to report the award handed this week to Alon Schuster, the mayor of Shaar Hanegev -The Orderly Management Award of 2009.
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Middle East
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD–There is hardly any ethnic or religious group that is not maligned in Holy Ghost, Jon Tuttle’s World War II-era drama now having its west coast premiere at Theatre of Note in Hollywood. Even the Amish, for God’s sake! But what can you expect at a prisoner of war camp in South
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