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Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 4, 2018 (4 items)

National broadcast planned of concert for Tree of Life Synagogue massacre victims PBS will broadcast nationally WQED’s locally-produced Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity, a free community event, presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims and first responders. The performance, featuring Itzhak Perlman at Pittsburgh’s Heinz […]

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Problem- solving a Jewish woman’s forté

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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 1, 2018

President 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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 30, 2018 (5 items)

American 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, USA

The history of the Gülen – Erdoğan rivalry

By 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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 29, 2018 (4 items)

Republican 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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 28, 2018 (3 items)

CNN 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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 27, 2018

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, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 26, 2018 (4 items)

SDSU 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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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USA

Redefining who can become a Jew

The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World by Robert H. Mnookin; © 2018; Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group; ISBN 9781610-397513; 228 pages plus 80 pages of notes, acknowledgments and index; $28 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Author Robert Mnookin, a Harvard Law professor, argues that Jewish peoplehood should have permeable boundaries.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA