NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Makom Board have named Abi Dauber Sterne as the new director of Makom — the Israel Education Lab. Makom educates leaders and creates content to embrace the vibrant complexity of Israel: the people, the place and the promise. Sterne comes to Makom from […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, only 42, was shot several times in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just before midnight on June 4, 1968. He had just won the California Democratic presidential primary and seemed destined for the nomination. He lingered through the next day,
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Obituaries & memorials, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s good that American Jews still concern themselves with Israel. One can hope for better information among them, and more sanity at the extremes. Being Jews, however, those are probably hopes to be frustrated. The range of what we hear isn’t all that different from what Israelis express. Likewise, the
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Good Heart by Alan Newman, Gefen Publishing House, © 2018, ISBN 9789652-299550; 251 pages including acknowledgments, glossary, and author’s biography, $15.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along. Among the central characters in this ode
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – To fellow aviators, perhaps, Elgen M. Long is best known as the man who in 1971 first flew around the world over both the North and South Poles. Additionally, he is admired for his research into the disappearance of aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – Whenever I go to the San Diego County Fair, I like to head for the area where they display hobbies. My pleasure is to find bits of Judaica in the various collections on display. Two years ago, for example, I found miniature books of tehillim in a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Sandi Masori DEL MAR, California — We went on Friday to the media night/ opening night of the San Diego County Fair, (which I can’t help myself, but it will always be the Del Mar Fair to me). This year my youngest, Sky, age 11, came with us and had a great time tasting his
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — In an interview with The Times of Israel, U.S. Ambassador David Friedman set off a partisan firestorm when he told the news organization that Republicans are better friends to Israel than are Democrats. “The argument that I hear from some Democrats that Republicans are seizing the pro-Israel mantle is true, to a
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Pres Release) — Jewish National Fund on Friday revealed its new Plant Your Way website that easily allows individuals to raise money for a future trip to Israel while helping build the land of Israel. First introduced in 2000, Plant Your Way has allowed many hundreds of young people a personal fundraising platform to
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs strongly condemns the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) for its ties to recognized terrorist groups. As reported in Tablet Magazine, USCPR is providing fiscal sponsorship to a coalition that includes Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This is yet another example of how
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Middle East, USABy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — From the day he announced his candidacy for president of the United States – with his talk of Mexican rapists illegally crossing the border – it has been clear that Mr. Trump has no regard for truth, evidence, or any of the norms that make for honest, intelligent, inquiry
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (SDII) announced on Wednesday that in the 2018-2019 Academic Year, six Israeli visiting professors will teach 17 classes on modern Israel on San Diego university campuses. “By bringing Israel studies to campuses, we can significantly help change the dialogue,” commented SDII directorn Susan Lapidus.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)— University of Haifa on Wednesday announced it has received a $10 million donation from well-known American philanthropist, Lorry I. Lokey, for the construction of a new campus that will consist of at least four buildings located throughout the Port of Haifa and the city’s downtown area. Lokey, the founder of Business
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF)-Columbia/Barnard Chapter sent a letter May 29 to Columbia President Lee Bollinger expressing concern at the university’s failure to investigate the recent anti-Semtitic actions of Professor Hamid Dabashi who teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS). The letter was signed by over 30 faculty and
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA