WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego) on Thursday introduced H. Res. 364, a bipartisan resolution in the House with more than 30 members of Congress, including members of the San Diego delegation. Senators Harris and Feinstein introduced the resolution in the Senate on Wednesday The resolution condemns the attack on the […]
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday charged John T. Earnest, 19, with federal hate crimes, including the murder of one person and the attempted murder of 53 others, for his actions during the April 27 shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. Earnest was charged by criminal complaint with
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
Story and Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessica Blackwell HONOLULU, Hawaii (Press Release) — A Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony was held at Aloha Jewish Chapel onboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 2. The ceremony was led by Daniel Bender, a lay leader and Jewish educator at the chapel. As Bender led with prayers, and
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Once again it will be “blue and white day” this coming Friday at the Bellus Academy here. Students will dress in blue and white, contribute $2 a piece, and tell customers at the cosmetology school about the tragedy that struck Poway on April 27 when a gunman
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) — After barely escaping a house fire that burned 50% of her small body, 18-month-old Shams Ismail was rushed from the Palestinian town of Rantis to Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer in Israel,where she received life-saving treatment in the hospital’s renowned National Burn Unit. With the care and innovative treatment
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (SDJW) — The Jewish community in this capital city has concluded its current mikvah has come to the end of its usefulness. A new mikvah will be built. “Our current mikvah is over forty years old and in such severe disrepair it has become a health risk to our community,” a spokesperson
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Accuracy is essential when reporting claims of Palestinian casualties during Palestinian-induced wars. But accuracy is always the missing ingredient in the mainstream media when covering Palestinian wars against Israel. Instead they offer bland reporting damaging to Israel with such recent examples as a story about 20 Palestinian killed in
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling on Catholic leadership in Poland to reprimand the Bishop of Tarnow for his Holy Thursday sermon that was filled with attacks on the Jewish people. Bishop Andrzej Jeż, citing a 1937 edition of the Polish periodical Nasza Sprawa that referenced the 10th World
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International, Jewish History, USABROOKLYN, New York (Press Release) — At his bris (circumcision), they named him Imri. He was blessed that his parents merit bringing him to the chupah (wedding canopy), a simple, often –taken-for-granted blessing. At the time, it seemed simple. Now they are not so sure. In fact, they are not certain that his mother will
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel isn’t only changing the Jewish people, reflected in the ever more complicated relationship between it and the diaspora. It’s also changing Judaism. The book I’m currently reading, so far only available in Hebrew, gives its English title as The Israeli century and the Israelization of Judaism. The author,
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastEditor’s Note: Following are remarks delivered at the Yom HaZikaron observance Tuesday evening, May 7, at the Lawrence Family JCC. By Yiftach Levy LA JOLLA, California — We typically think of memory as a purely mental exercise – we remember in our heads and our imaginations – but remembering is a fully multisensory experience. We
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Tributes to the 12 Jews killed in the synagogue shootings of October 2018 in Pittsburgh and April 2019 in Poway took center stage Wednesday during The Jewish Agency for Israel’s memorial service for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s annual day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. The special guests
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — I was one of the brave souls who attended a performance of the opera, The Passenger’ by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. I did so mainly because a friend of ours was the revival director of the production by the Israel Opera, and not because I’m a “glutton for punishment,” as I have
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There is no question that individual Jews have a lot of clout in Congress. Four of the 28 Jewish members of the House of Representatives hold important committee chairmanships. They are Democrats Eliot Engel on the Foreign Affairs Committee; Nita Lowey on Appropriations, Jerry Nadler on Judiciary; all
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA