Hadassah celebrates its ‘Women of Excellence’ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Dafna Michaelson Jenet, an author and Colorado state legislator, perhaps felt that she was preaching to the choir when she addressed the San Diego area contingent of Hadassah Southern California on the issue of community problem solving. In 2009, she had traveled to […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USAPresident George H. W. Bush mourned “President Bush was an outstanding American, a veteran who courageously served his country in time of war, and a public official who left an impressive record of achievement. While in the Oval Office, he exerted particularly skillful, indeed visionary, leadership during a period of dramatic change in the world,”
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — As readers around the world are finding out now, the Holocaust sex-and-romance novel by the non-Jewish Australian screenwriter Heather Morris titled The Tattooist of Auschwitz is not all that the feel-good, based-on-a-true story that it says it is. Sure, the memoir published as a novel tells the alleged
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryAmerican Jewish Committee opens global religious freedom drive American Jewish Committee (AJC) has launched #8Nights4ReligiousRights, the global Jewish advocacy organization’s Hanukkah initiative in support of religious freedom around the world. The eight-day Hanukah holiday, which begins Sunday evening with the lighting of the first candle in the menorah, celebrates the restoration of Jewish religious freedom
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International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Until five years ago, Fethullah Gülen and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were allies who supported each other. Both use Islam as the basis for their doctrine, which made them ideologically different from the revolutionary secularist stateman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the new Republic
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — Something unusual happened in the Knesset on Monday. The governing coalition failed to put together enough support to see one of its bills — the latest in a series of laws intended to punish dissent in Israel — passed into law. In an effort to save face, the coalition
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Middle EastRepublican Jewish Coalition presses for U.S. – Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act The Republican Jewish Coalition has reaffirmed its support for the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act (HR 5141/S. 2497) and strongly encourages the U.S. Senate to complete action on the bill during this year’s session. Maintaining and strengthening the alliance between the U.S.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — After fairly rapid negotiations, Israel has agreed with European nations to supply Europe with its future natural gas needs. The project will turn Israel into a significant fuel-exporting nation. Construction will begin on the longest and deepest underwater fuel pipeline in the world. 1,305 miles in length and lying 1.86
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East
Editor’s Note: This is the 39th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and FoodCNN wins StandWithUs plaudits for series on anti-Semitism StandWithUs has applauded CNN for its week-long series reporting on resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe during November, 2018. CNN commissioned a poll of over 7,000 European adults that found, “Anti- Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade… a third
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every story has a starting point. Don’t start with the Russian capture this week of two (or three) Ukrainian ships and the injury to three (or six) Ukrainian sailors. The Russian habit is to do as it likes with smaller countries and then announce that the other guy did
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Pitzer College faculty vote against Israel abroad programs draws criticism The faculty of Pitzer College, which is part of the Claremont Colleges consortium in California, on November 8 passed a motion to suspend the school’s study abroad exchange with the University of Haifa “until (a) the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There’s evidence to suggest that much of the Muslim world is abandoning the Palestinians in favor of Israel. What in recent years had been covert has now become overt: Israel’s seemingly warm relationship with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. Prime Minister Netanyahu is about to return to the
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International, Middle East, USASDSU Jewish Studies Program sponsors Chanukah concert Dec. 4 San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Program will present a Chanukah concert, “Shimmering Lights,” featuring Yale Strom’s Broken Consort at 7 p.m., Dec. 4, in the Smith Recital Hall. Strom, who serves as artist in residence for the Jewish Studies Program, says the concert will include
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