MEXICO CITY (Press Release) The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Wednesday signed an agreement to work collaboratively to assist people of Mexican heritage living in the United States who are victims of discrimination, bigotry, bullying and hate crimes. The Memorandum of Understanding between ADL and Mexico commences the second phase
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International, USA
KRAKOW, Poland (Press Release) — Kraków City Council has decided that one of the city streets will be named after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, the well-known caretaker of the Kraków ghetto orphanage. During the liquidation of the orphanage by the Nazis, Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live, or join them in their
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International, Jewish History
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Pitzer College President Prof. Melvin L. Oliver reinforced his opposition to boycotting Israeli academia and his unwavering commitment to upholding the values of academic freedom at University of Haifa’s 47th Annual Board of Governors Meeting on Tuesday, May 28. Speaking in Israel for the first time since vetoing the vote
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Alan Dershowitz is a distinguished law professor emeritus at Harvard University and a passionate defender of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Almost five years ago he published an article in the Jerusalem Post which the Gatestone Institute has just reprinted under the title, “It is not surprising
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International, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School honored two Holocaust survivors at a Memorial Day gala on Monday, May 27, with keynote speaker Elizabeth Robbins, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, spelling out the connection. “I think Rabbi [and Headmaster Simcha] Weiser picked the best possible day to honor Fanny
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” keeps getting postponed, but it’s been revealed in pieces. It seems to involve lots of money for Palestinians to be contributed by a number of Arab governments. And not much by way of providing the Palestinians with a state, a capital in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — The U.S. Merchant Marine were the men and their ships who brought soldiers, food, airplanes, oil and every essential item to our troops all over the world during World War II. Merchant ships and crews were on the front lines and suffered staggering losses from Nazi submarines
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, International, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Longtime San Diego residents Robert and Helaine Baum were doing some Spring cleaning and found hundreds of pins and patches that they had collected over the years, then put away, and forgot. Their wide-ranging collection included memorabilia from the worlds of politics, sports, broadcasting, the labor movement, local
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — For most, Memorial Day is another day off. Another excuse not to go to work and grill hamburgers, or go to the beach and kvetch about politics and the decline of American society. However, Memorial Day is really a day to stop and assess the meaning of
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; graphic adaptation by Wayne Vansant, © 2019 published by Dead Reckoning, ISBN9781682-474601, 170 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If I suddenly had universal authority, I would order every world leader, every man or woman capable of summoning an army to fight
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel and The Jewish Federations of North America will provide immediate emergency assistance to 60 families in Mevo Modi’im and Kibbutz Harel whose homes were destroyed by the devastating wildfires that burned through Israel on Thursday. This support from The Jewish Agency comes from a special funds
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Memorial Day is to remember those who “gave their last full measure of devotion” to our country and our cause. Brave men and women fought and died from Bunker Hill to New Orleans to Buena Vista to Shiloh and Cold Harbor to Chateau-Thierry to Cape Esperance and Kasserine
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –Waging a war against Iran, or even thinking of doing so, is sheer madness. Trump has thus far wisely rejected the warmonger National Security Adviser John Bolton’s outrageous advice. Waging another war in the Mideast, this time against Iran, would have not only disastrous consequences for the US but will
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy José A. Álvarez County of San Diego Communications Office SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego County Public Health officials are responding to an influenza outbreak among asylum seekers recently flown to San Diego from Texas by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We have identified individuals with flu symptoms and
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International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA