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Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 13, 2018 (4 items)

State Department designates son of Hizballah’s Nasrallah as a terrorist The U.S. Department of State has designated Jawad Nasrallah and Al-Mujahidin Brigades (AMB) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, which imposes sanctions on foreign persons who have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Fires at home, rockets in Israel stir Jewish Federation

(Please hover with your cursor to find links) By Michael Jeser and Brian Tauber SAN DIEGO — The past week has been a difficult one up and down our State. Communities in Northern and Southern California are literally burning and need our help. Three major fires have devastated entire communities, leaving people displaced and homeless. Our

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Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, the Holocaust and X-Men

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday.  As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie: The creators of the X-Men comic book series belong to the generation of American-born Jews who sought acceptance and social mobility through assimilation.

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Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 12, 2018 (3 items)

Reform rabbis to gather at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek protection for refugees This week, Reform rabbis from across the country will lead a pilgrimage to the U.S. border with Mexico to call attention to three ongoing crises near the border: The asylum seekers languishing on the El Paso-Juarez bridge, teenagers confined to a tent

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International, Jewish Religion, USA

Book details the battles over Nazi-looted art

A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (2017) by Nicholas M. O’Donnell By Herbert I. Lazerow SAN DIEGO — This is a terrific book that everyone should read. Nicholas O’Donnell’s book begins by describing as the paradigm case Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie, sold by the German

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 11, 2018 (6 items)

Non-Israelis may sue in Israeli court those who harm them because they are Jews  Judge Moshe Drori has ruled in Jerusalem Court that non-Israelis who are harmed because they are Jewish have the standing to sue their attackers in Israeli courts.  The ruling came in a case brought by the Shurat HaDin Law Center on

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Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Synagogue members hold Veterans Day ceremony

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In honor of the centennial of the Armistice that ended World War I, members and friends of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club on Veteran’s Day Sunday hoisted a fresh American flag up the flagpole, pledged allegiance, sang “God Bless America” (composed by Jewish immigrant Irving

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 9, 2018 (6 items)

World Jewish Congress marks 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht The World Jewish Congress on Friday commemorated the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), the 1938 Nazi-led pogroms in which more than 1,000 synagogues were burned, windows smashed, shops looted, and individual Jews rounded up to be sent to concentration camps. Four hundred people

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA