By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Jews all over the world are in shock: eleven worshipers in a Pittsburgh Conservative synagogue praising, thanking and petitioning God at a Shabbat morning service, were gunned down by an intruder with an anti-Semitic record who stated loudly that all Jews must die. Horrible and shocking though it was, […]
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Middle EastKFAR MACCABIAH, Israel —- The Maccabi World Union (MWU) Executive has appointed Ido Aharoni as the organization’s Global Ambassador. Aharoni is a veteran of Israel’s foreign service where he spent his entire career, spanning almost three decades, in the United States culminating with a six-year term as Israel’s consul-general in New York with the rank
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A Saudi journalist went into his government’s consulate in Turkey, and may have exited some time later in a number of parcels. The disappearance has riled the media with the persistence of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. The folks are holding Saudi Arabia to a much higher standard of justice than
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anti-Semitism is one of the world’s most enduring social diseases that we as Jews have known throughout our history. With the murder of eleven Jews at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the Jewish community awoke from its slumber only to realize that anti-Semitism is still alive
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — A day after the Shabbat morning massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, reactions from Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals continued to come into the offices of San Diego Jewish World via email. In addition to messages from those individuals and organizations that spoke out on Saturday, there
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David Ogul, International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USAIsraeli legislation would tax organizations receiving majority funding from foreign governments A new bill aims to impose heavy taxes on organizations that receive the majority of their funding from foreign governments. The bill, submitted by Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Nava Boker (Likud), would impose a maximum tax rate of 45% and strip the
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A Half Century of Occupation Israel, Palestine and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict by Gershon Shafir; University of California Press 2017, 296 pages; $20.56 By Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Gershon Shafir, a former Israeli who is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and founding director of its Human Rights Program, has written one
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron Branches cut from the Tree of Life. Fall like leaves in autumn. Roots remain but sap is bleeding. The Sabbath bride is mourning The lumberjack’s hateful harvest. * Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com.
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — As news of the deadly assault on the Tree of Life/ Or L’Shalom Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh were broadcast and cablecast around the country, various Jewish organizations issued statements in response. At last report, there were at least 11 people killed and six others wounded, including four
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiMattis, Lieberman confer on defense The U.S. Defense Department issued the following statement Friday: Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis spoke on the phone with Israeli Minister of Defense (MOD) Avigdor Lieberman on Oct. 24 to reaffirm the longstanding defense relationship between the United States and Israel. The leaders discussed a broad range of defense
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USARepublicans, Democrats accused of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic statements Republicans and Democrats have been accused of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments in two congressional races. The Washngton Post reported that Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa visited Nazi Holocaust sites in Poland as the guest of From the Depths, a Holocaust Memorial group, then, on his own money, traveled to
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The cold-blooded killing of the journalist Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales compared to the brutality and gross human rights violations Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen. The Saudis are deliberately preventing food and medicine from reaching areas where children are dying from starvation or disease. Their indiscriminate bombings are killing
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USA
Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 By Donald H.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAShabbat San Diego lists upcoming events The legendary San Diego Challah Bakes once again, to accommodate the expected 5,000 attendees. There will be 6 locations on Thursday night, Oct. 25, with RSVPs required via https://shabbatsandiego.org/ The locations are: Coastal 4126 Executive Dr. Doors open at 5 PM, Ample Parking (we’ve rented lots on both sides of
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