2,500 proud Zionists, including more than 70 from San Diego, attended Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global Conference for Israel in Dallas from November 14-17, 2024, fueling torches of light that continue to shine brightly even in these darkest of times. [Press Release]
70+ San Diego County Residents Attend JNF-USA Gathering in Dallas, Texas Read More »
Israel, Press Release, San Diego County, USA
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has found that the smartphones we all carry in our pockets could help collect weather data from the public to provide early warnings for wildfires and other extreme weather conditions. [Press Release]
Israeli Researchers Propose General Smart Phone Use to Predict Wildfires Read More »
Israel, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education
Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s attorney general, has been accused by Shlomo Karhi, Israel’s communications minister, of “deliberately thwarting government policy for political reasons.” Karhi, with the backing of 12 other ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 33-member Cabinet, has called for Baharav-Miara’s dismissal. [SDJW staff report]
Effort Underway to Fire Israel’s Attorney General Read More »
Antisemitism, Business & Finance, California, Holocaust, Israel, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
There is a horrid scandal in America’s family courts – namely a fierce backlash against women who try to protect their children from abuse but instead lose all contact with their children – that Garland’s DOJ has plainly ignored. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]
OpEd: Family Courts Often Are Conduits for Child Sex Abusers Read More »
Amy Neustein, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked President-elect Donald Trump for his statement on Monday urging the release of hostages held in Gaza or there would be “hell to pay.” [SDJW staff]
Israel, Hamas React to Trump’s ‘Hell to Pay” Message on Truth Social Read More »
California, International, Israel, Middle East, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Pam Bondi is off to a promising start as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s designated nominee for attorney general. The former Florida attorney general urged the expulsion of noncitizens who support Hamas and other terrorist groups. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Spending a week in London in mid-November is not really a good idea for someone who has become used to the Mediterranean climate of Israel, but the arrival there of our son from Las Vegas proved an overriding attraction, so we went. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
Maybe it’s Because I’m a Londoner… Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Israel, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food
While she has never felt the need in the past to warn her children about Jodenhaat (hate against Jews), Femmetje now realizes that they are discovering it themselves. Her oldest daughter received threatening remarks after writing about the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and its consequences. [Dorian de Wind]
The Netherlands Faces Antisemitic Echoes of its Nazi Occupation Read More »
Antisemitism, Dorian de Wind, International, Israel, Jewish History
With the author having grown up in western Christianity and the illustrator having experienced eastern religions, their collaboration, written in couplets on left-facing pages and with explanatory information on right-facing pages, uses the alphabet as a teaching vehicle. [Donald H. Harrison]
‘The ABC’s of the World’s Religions’ Shows Their Similarities Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USARegarding the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump issued a threat on social media calling for them to be released before he assumes office Jan. 20, 2025, or “there will be all hell (his emphasis) to pay in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.” {SDJW staff]
Trump to Hamas: Release the Hostages or There Will Be All Hell to Pay Read More »
International, Israel, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issue an apology to the Canadian Jewish community in 2018? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
Jewish Trivia Quiz: Justin Trudeau Read More »
International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Upon declaring our independence from British bulldogs in 1776, all creatures living in this land established the United States of Animals whose government parallels that of the human USA. This year the ostriches convinced us to put our heads in the sand and elect the Golden Deceiver while parrots incessantly repeated his lies. Since the Deceiver is rabid, he has nominated dangerous beasts to serve in his cabinet. [Elona Baron as barked to Laurie Baron]
Hounding the Headlines: The Golden Deceiver’s Cabinet Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking note of the takeover of Aleppo, Syria, by rebel Suni Islamist forces, said his nation’s security forces are keeping a close watch on the situation lest it should devolve into a threat to Israel. [SDJW staff]
Israel Warily Watches Military Developments in Syria Read More »
International, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAEdan Alexander, a 20-year-old Israeli born, U.S.-raised hostage held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023, was shown Saturday on a Hamas-released video scolding Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allegedly neglecting the hostages. He said in Hebrew, “Do not neglect us. We want to return home. Far and isolation is killing us. Do not forget us.” [SDJW staff]
Hamas Releases Video of U.S.-Israeli Hostage Edan Alexander Read More »
International, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA