NEW YORK – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented a donation on Friday to help rebuild the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Florida, severely damaged in an arson attack in September. “An attack on any house of worship is an affront to all Americans, regardless of their religious affiliation,” said Robert Silverman, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations. […]
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Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some details are beginning to emerge about the major exhibition planned by the San Diego History Center about the Jews of San Diego. Bill Lawrence, executive director of the center that previously was known as the San Diego Historical Society, said the exhibit will run between nine months
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAI Only Wanted to Live; the Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust by Arie Tamir; published by Arie Tamir, 2015; translated from the Hebrew by Batya Jerenberg By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some kind of morbid fascination, possibly even masochism, seems to impel me to download and read yet another Holocaust memoir,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Early one December at my cousin’s retirement party, we were introduced to his replacement as engineering company head and the man’s wife, both not Jewish. The young woman was very outgoing and, though we were meeting for the first, she was as friendly as if we had been
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Jewish Religion, USAWashington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump said Thursday the man he has named to be US ambassador to China will lead the way to an improved relationship between the US and China. Trump said Iowa Governor Terry Branstad knows China, has led six trade missions to the country and “knows how to deliver results.”
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USAWASHINGTON — Fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Labor Department secretary, turned around the Southern California-based parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s with help from scantily clad women hawking oversized burgers in racy ads. More recently, he’s raised his own profile by becoming an outspoken national advocate on
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City, N.C., man who resigned as Santa in the town’s Christmas house after apparently telling a 9-year-old boy to “lay off” the burgers and fries has been hospitalized since Wednesday with a blood clot in his lung, his niece says. The man, Earl Crowder, woke up Wednesday with trouble breathing
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USAWASHINGTON — Since Election Day, President Barack Obama has appointed 56 people to boards, commissions and offices in the hopes that they remain in those posts for years to come. He has reduced the prison sentences of 79 federal inmates. He has handed out the nation’s highest civilian honor to 21 people who he said
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USALOS ANGELES — A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California coast Thursday morning. The quake occurred about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka, near the Oregon border, around 6:50 a.m. local time. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The depth of the quake was about 6.2 miles, according to
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USAWho acted more presidential? With friends and fellow union members slated to lose their jobs, Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1999 at the Carrier plant, wasn’t happy that Donald Trump took credit for saving more than 1,100 positions at the plant while delivering a $7 million tax break to Carrier and their
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City man portraying St. Nicholas in the town’s Santa House who apparently told a child to “lay off” the burgers and fries has resigned amid backlash from the community. Nine-year-old Anthony Mayse visited the Santa on Saturday and asked for an iPod Touch and a drone for Christmas, but left
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USAThe nominee has extensive ties to fossil fuel companies Gage Skidmore Scott Pruitt The current nominee to head the EPA. Also, someone who is currently suing the EPA. Scott Pruitt, currently the Oklahoma Attorney General, has been nominated by President-elect Trump to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Environmental groups have
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USACHICAGO — In the list of potential risk factors that companies include in their regulatory filings, a new one has surfaced: Donald Trump. Methode Electronics, a Chicago-based designer and maker of parts for automotive, appliance and other industries, on Thursday added the president-elect to its list of potential “risk factors.” Disclosures of a wide range
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USAJohn Glenn, who became an American hero as the first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth and then relived that glory 36 years later as the oldest man to go into space, has died. He was 95. Glenn, who also served for 24 years as a U.S. senator from Ohio, died after being hospitalized in
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