San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan has presented Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler with an award naming her as a Community Justice Champion. [Donald H. Harrison]
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History has a way of repeating itself. In 1962, I was a young boy of nine years old when the Soviet Union decided to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. It was a scary time at school; I could remember the old “duck and cover” as we rehearsed hiding under our desks and covering our heads just in case of a nuclear attack. The “Duck-and-Cover-Drill” was a plan originally initiated by President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s. Nobody really believed the duck-and-cover exercise would help, but it did offer a modicum of psychological comfort, which was better than no comfort. [Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel]
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New research released Wednesday, Jan. 8, by AMCHA Initiative provides the first empirical evidence suggesting that faculty who support academic BDS are actively promoting that political agenda directly to students in their classrooms. {Press release from AMCHA Initiative]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Prior to Iran’s retaliation on two Iraqi bases where American troops are stationed, congressional candidate Sara Jacobs denounced the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by American forces. She wrote: “This ill-conceived operation was the culmination of a reckless strategy toward Iran that started with the Trump Administration pulling out of the Iran deal. Of all the hyperbole and questions being thrown around, the only one that needs to be asked is this: is the United States safer for having done this? The answer is clearly no.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Bibi waited until the last prime time television spot before the deadline, to announce that he was applying for immunity. The day earlier, one of the news shows replayed an earlier statement that he had no intention of applying for immunity. Immediately after Bibi announced, Benny Gantz began his election campaign, indicating that it would focus on an alleged criminal, running for yet more time at the top of the government.[Ira Sharkansky, PhD]
New political scramble as Bibi seeks immunity Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
“Communist, religion-hating goyim!” That’s how Israel’ Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef described Israelis who’ve immigrated from the former Soviet Union. His statement may have been also intended against Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, many of the members of which are immigrants and descendants of immigrants from the countries that once formed the Soviet empire. Their Jewish status has often been denied by the Orthodox establishment. [Rabbi Dow Marmur]
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Middle EastIt wasn’t Israel that accomplished the eradication of the world’s most dangerous terrorist, far more dangerous than an Osama Bin Laden (Al Qaida) or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIS). It was the US government. Surprisingly for Israelis, the news wasn’t universally celebrated in the US. Not only were the President’s motives and the legality of his order immediately questioned, but the whole idea of violent elimination of a politically active global terrorist was raised by his political opponents. [Steve Kramer]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAAlong with my wife and co-publisher Nancy E. Harrison, I wanted to re-notify our readers that our editor and staff of San Diego Jewish World will be on hiatus until January 8, 2020. At that point, refreshed from vacations and stay-cations, we’ll resume publishing our daily online news and feature website. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USATitle VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects people from discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance – but it left a loophole by not mentioning religion. As such, Jews and supporters of Israel were not protected. On December 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order which includes Jews under existing Title VI protections against increasingly rampant campus aggression. [Steve Kramer]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Steve Kramer, USA
At an exhibit entitled ’Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove,’ the Israel Museum’s Curator of European Art, Shlomit Steinberg, gave a fascinating talk about the history, geography, sociology and provenance of the huge collection of paintings, drawings, prints and lithographs found in 2012 in an apartment belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly recluse living in Munich and virtually unknown to the German authorities. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
The Jewish Historical Society of San Diego, which maintains archives of our community’s history at San Diego State University, has acquired several more collections that will help researchers understand how our local Jewish community developed. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has a serious challenger, not from the Opposition but from his own Likud party. Gideon Sa’ar, a man in his early fifties, with a very credible history in Likud, as a Member of Knesset for many years and as a minister of education and interior, aspires to be the new star on Israel’s political firmament. He’s a candidate for party leader at the Likud primaries to be held later this month and daring to challenge “King Bibi.” [Rabbi Dow Marmur]
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Middle EastAnother election. This one on Monday, March 2. Why? It depends on who is analyzing. [Ira Sharkansky, PhD]
Fingers point as Israel fails to form a government Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
The works of past and present Jewish photographers are on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. There are seven works by Bern Schwartz in Talking With a Friend: Portraits by Bern Schwartz and a single work by Jacob Manowitz, a student at Meadowbrook Middle School. [Donald H. Harrison]
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