WASHINGTON D.C. — Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan issued the following statement about the death in Rancho Santa Fe on Friday of former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, a member of the Jewish community who also had served as president of the California Institute of Technology. It is with deep sadness that I extend […]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Retired Judge Sol Gothard of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal told a kiddush luncheon audience at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Saturday, January 5, that some major tenets of the American legal system are derived from the Torah and the Talmud. Adding that “justice doesn’t win law cases,
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “Seal Tours” is the name that Old Town Trolley Tours of San Diego gives its sightseeing excursions in an amphibious vehicle on the waters of San Diego Bay and on land along the Embarcadero and Point Loma. That name might cause a bit of confusion because
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San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
First Senate bill in new session will protect U.S. interests in Middle East The Republican Jewish Coalition applauds the introduction of the first Senate bill of the 116th Congress, the “Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019” (S.1). It was introduced yesterday by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), James Risch (R-ID), Cory Gardner
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International, Middle East, USABy Doron Krakow NEW YORK — My son, Aaron, began his IDF service on Dec. 23. The rest of the family arrived in Israel a few days earlier and spent those days together with Aaron up north near Kibbutz Afikim which has been his home since August. We were joined by a couple of his
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Middle East, USAA report by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) In December BDS continued to be a prominent political and campus issue, fully integrated into larger questions of antisemitism, free speech, and the nature of the university. At Temple University faculty member Marc Lamont Hill was fired from a job as a CNN commentator
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Four boys’ names from Hebrew Bible make San Diego County’s top 10 in 2018 Four names from the Hebrew Bible made the top 10 for boys born in San Diego County during 2018, according to records on file with the county Health and Human Services Agency. These were Noah in second place with 202 instances,
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Barbara Bry announces candidacy for San Diego Mayor in 2020 election Barbara Bry, one of two Jewish members of the nine-member San Diego City Council, has announced her candidacy for mayor of San Diego in the 2020 election. The incumbent mayor, Kevin Faulconer, will be termed out. “Instead of making decisions designed to preserve a
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International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The current exhibition of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – the first of its kind to be mounted in North America – is indeed an extraordinary revelation. Delacroix was one of the great creative minds of the nineteenth century: an artist who embodied
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
Brazil to move its embassy to Jerusalem Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro will move his country’s embassy to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced during a meeting with Jewish leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Netanyahu explained, “Mr. Bolsonaro said, ‘I will move the embassy to Jerusalem. It’s not a question of if, just a question of
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Chaos in both of my countries. Israel’s government collapses, and calls an election for April 9th. The US government is wrapped up in a dispute about the wall, pull out from Syria, and several other claims about the President. Israel’s election came under dispute about a bill for drafting Haredim,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Gary E. Jacobs SAN DIEGO — As 2018 draws to a close, and I reflect on my first six months as board chair of JCC Association of North America, let me share some of the highlights of my year. Together, these are the things that provide meaning and measure as to why the JCC
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, USAU.S. State Department supports Israel’s military action against Iranian forces in Syria The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Thursday: “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Iranian regional actions that endanger Israeli national security and the safety of the Israeli people. Iranian support of and supply to terrorist
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — The pushke in my grandma’s kitchen, blue and white, with Hebrew lettering, sat in the corner of the counter. It was not remarkable; I saw the same one or similar ones in the houses of most of my relatives. In those days, in the infancy of the State of
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA