By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I watched the documentary There Are Jews Here more than 1 ½ years ago, and I will reprint below the review that I wrote for the April 15, 2017 edition of San Diego Jewish World. Now the documentary by Brad Lichtenstein is scheduled to air as part of […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALawfare Project informs Airbnb it may face a lawsuit for delisting Israeli West Bank properties On Monday, home-rental company Airbnb announced that it was removing Israeli West Bank property listings. The decision follows years of pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which tirelessly advocates for boycotts and other unlawful discriminatory business
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Middle East, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — I attended a press conference put on by SDRRN (San Diego Rapid Response Network) in front of St. Jude Shrine of the West on Monday, Nov. 19. SDRRN is a network of non-profit services including Jewish Family Services, Catholic Charities and the ACLU. This network has come together to
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Eric George Tauber, International, USAIsraeli law group demands Facebook remove Hamas account Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin has placed Facebook and its Israeli branch under formal legal notice for allowing Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV to maintain Facebook and Instagram accounts. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Israel general manager Adi Soffer-Teeri, Shurat HaDin claims that Facebook’s continual support
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAKentucky governor receives StandWithUs plauditsStandWithUs has commended Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin for signing into law an executive order barring state agencies from doing business with companies which boycott Israel. The new executive order prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel and other countries with which the U.S. has free trade agreements. During the
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International, Middle East, USABy Howard Wayne SAN DIEGO — More than a week has passed since the last ballot was cast in the 2018 election. We know that Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and that Republicans strengthened their numbers in the Senate with a net increase of one or two members. Democrats have a net gain
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San Diego County, USA
By Ron Klein BOCA RATON, Florida — The blue wave that emerged on November 6 is looking a lot more like Hanukkah come early than Christmas, as it’s a wave that miraculously is still crashing more than eight days after the election. In the past few days, we have seen two more wins for JDCA-endorsed
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USABy Doron Krakow PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — On Tuesday, more than 100 Jewish community leaders from across the continent gathered in Pittsburgh for a day of solidarity with the beleaguered Jewish community there, just 17 days after the massacre of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Squirrel Hill. We came representing Jewish federations, Jewish family
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Jewish History, USABy Jack Rosen NEW YORK — All politics are local, goes the famous axiom. What affects us most personally closely shapes how we vote. While American Jews live in every state in the nation, the tragedy in Pittsburgh, in which 11 worshippers were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue by an anti-Semite just days
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Editor’s Note: This is the 37th 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, 36
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met
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Eva Trieger, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — Anti-Semitism has been called the oldest form of hatred. In America, we are now witnessing a horrifying escalation of anti-Semitic violence, such as cemetery desecration, vandalization of Jewish schools and synagogues and inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric on college campuses. This week, CBS News reported the existence of a prom night
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — The word Jewish is associated with a person whose religion is Judaism. But what about individuals who are atheists but trace their ethnicity to the original Hebrew tribes? Traditionally, the following groups of people are united under the term Jewish: -descendants of the original ethnic Hebrew tribes whose religion is Judaism; -descendants
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J. Rickover, Army
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA