By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Last week I conducted a panel discussion about Turkey under the leadership of Erdogan. The day before the event, we were alerted that several of Erdogan’s stooges will await us to disrupt the event, and we feared that violence may erupt. Earlier in the morning, NYU received a letter […]
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
San Diego County Rabbis denounce Duncan Hunter’s attacks on Ammar Campa-Najjar A group of 17 active and retired rabbis in San Diego County, affiliated with the Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Conservative branches of Judaism have issued the following statement: “As rabbis and leaders of the Jewish community in the San Diego area, we are
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWhy the Jewish Community of Pittsburgh Did Not Want President Trump to Attend the Funerals of the Victims of the Tree of Life Massacre By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It expected that he would toss out boxes of Kleenex to the mourners. * It suspected that he intended to recruit minions rather than join a minyan.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –If you missed Monday night’s community vigil at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, you’ll have another chance to attend an interfaith gathering memorializing the 11 Jews slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and honoring the four law enforcement officials also shot by the white supremacist gunman. Temple Beth
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy David Harris NEW YORK — We knew anti-Semitism was out there. We knew it was growing. More and more people felt uninhibited in expressing their hatred and bigotry. Deadly attacks against Jewish targets had already occurred in other countries, from Belgium to Bulgaria, Argentina to Panama, Turkey to Tunisia, and France to Denmark —
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent tragic events in Pittsburgh took my thoughts to Professor Robert Wistrich’s seminal study of anti-Semitism. Coining the phrase ‘the longest hatred’ to denote the phenomenon, and making it the title of his book, Wistrich describes the longstanding and widespread occurrence of anti-Semitism. In a subsequent tome, A
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between San Diego, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 2,450 miles, but the psychological distance between the two American cities was zero as representatives of many faiths filled Congregation Beth Israel’s sanctuary and synagogue to overflowing Monday evening, Oct. 29, in a vigil to express solidarity with the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
Chabad merges San Diego memorial gathering with community service at Beth Israel Rabbi Rafi Andrusier of Chabad of East County sent the following message: “After such a terrible tragedy, I sent an email on Saturday night about increasing Jewish unity. Chabad jumped into action and immediately setup an event to honor those holy souls who
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAKFAR MACCABIAH, Israel —- The Maccabi World Union (MWU) Executive has appointed Ido Aharoni as the organization’s Global Ambassador. Aharoni is a veteran of Israel’s foreign service where he spent his entire career, spanning almost three decades, in the United States culminating with a six-year term as Israel’s consul-general in New York with the rank
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A Saudi journalist went into his government’s consulate in Turkey, and may have exited some time later in a number of parcels. The disappearance has riled the media with the persistence of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. The folks are holding Saudi Arabia to a much higher standard of justice than
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anti-Semitism is one of the world’s most enduring social diseases that we as Jews have known throughout our history. With the murder of eleven Jews at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the Jewish community awoke from its slumber only to realize that anti-Semitism is still alive
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — A day after the Shabbat morning massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, reactions from Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals continued to come into the offices of San Diego Jewish World via email. In addition to messages from those individuals and organizations that spoke out on Saturday, there
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David Ogul, International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAIsraeli legislation would tax organizations receiving majority funding from foreign governments A new bill aims to impose heavy taxes on organizations that receive the majority of their funding from foreign governments. The bill, submitted by Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Nava Boker (Likud), would impose a maximum tax rate of 45% and strip the
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron Branches cut from the Tree of Life. Fall like leaves in autumn. Roots remain but sap is bleeding. The Sabbath bride is mourning The lumberjack’s hateful harvest. * Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, USA