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State Senate adjourned in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye

She was murdered during gunman’s attack at Poway of Chabad East County Magazine SACRAMENTO, California — In the wake of the shooting in Poway, Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) adjourned the Senate floor session on April 28th in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye, a Chabad of Poway synagogue congregant who died during the synagogue shooting on […]

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA

SWU assails college’s bias against pro-Israel group

Editor’s Note: Following is a letter written by Roz Rothstein, StandWithUs co-founder and CEO and Yael Lerman, Director StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department to the top administrators of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.. By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — We write on behalf of StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-profit, Israel education organization. We are alarmed and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Citation honors U.S. volunteers in Israel’s 1948 war

By Jerry Klinger WEST POINT, New York — After 70 years, and considerable effort by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, the volunteer veterans of Israel’s War of Independence were finally, officially, thanked by the State of Israel. A citation was presented by Major General Michael Edelstein, Israel Defense Attache to the U.S., in

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Touring Israel’s Jordan Valley and the Galilee

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics isn’t going anywhere for several more weeks. Officials are busy with the ceremonies for Holocaust Memorial Day, then Memorial Day, and Independence Day. And meanwhile, the various parties likely to be in the government coalition are making extraordinary demands. Those may be whittled down as Bibi reaches the four

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Middle East, Travel and Food

Visiting israeli professor shares tears with her class

By Ronit Weiss Berkowitz Translated from Hebrew SAN DIEGO —  I am still emotionally overwhelmed by the powerful experience I had recently in class. I apologize for writing in Hebrew, it comes to me faster and I do not want those moments to slip away. I planned to talk to the students briefly about the

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA