International

A Problem in the Netanyahu Family: Limiting Dad’s Capacity to Manage?

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are said to have demanded that son Yair stop posting on social media, and avoid speaking with politicians. Apparently, those demands came after Yair ignited tensions within Israel and overseas, especially with the United States. Whatever? Yair was last seen walking […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion, USA

Sharaka Brings Expanded Arab Delegation to March of the Living as Part of Landmark Holocaust Education Program

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Sharaka, a non-governmental initiative that grows the impact of the Abraham Accords by transforming the vision of people-to-people peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors into a reality, brought 22 Arab participants to this year’s International March of the Living in Poland as part of a first-of-its-kind year-long program that promotes

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Holocaust, International, Israel, Middle East

Antisemitism Festers in Current US Political and Social Climate, Report Says

Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The social and political climate in the United States has become fertile ground for antisemitism in recent years, according to a report released on Monday by advocacy group Anti-Defamation League and the Tel Aviv University. Expressions of hatred against Jews have become “mainstreamed and normalized,” and

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USA

A Short History of Holocaust Survivors in San Diego

The Holocaust did not simply end the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies.  Survivors torn from their homes, their families, and their health, needed to be nursed back into physical and mental health and resettled in countries where they would be accepted and given a chance to reconstruct their lives. One San Diegan who was intimately involved in this process was Army Lt. Al Hutler, a Jew whose compassionate administration of a Displaced Persons camp helped thousands of people make those adjustments. After leaving the Army, Hutler moved to San Diego where he served as the executive director of the Jewish Federation from 1946 to 1958. He was among those San Diegans who put out the welcoming mat for the survivors of the Nazi scourge. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, San Diego County

Israeli-Born Conductor Yaniv Dinur Shines for San Diego Symphony Orchestra in La Jolla

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), a Black composer unfamiliar to most concert goers, wrote a delightful Sinfonietta for Strings, the opening selection in the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday evening concert at the Conrad in La Jolla. The three-movement work, Sonata Allegro, Song Form, Rondo, consisted of standard classical

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Eileen Wingard, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Israel’s Reaction to Iran’s Plan to Destroy the Jewish State

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel is currently in an interim period of religious and national holidays which will be over by the end of May. The Knesset is on vacation while hopefully intense negotiations are being held in President Herzog’s residence, seeking to compromise on the proposed judicial system legislation. These negotiations

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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA