By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Bad news for Netanyahu: Ze’ev Elkin, a member of the current Netanyahu government with special responsibilities for Jerusalem lost his bid to be the next mayor of the capital. His election posters showed him always with the prime minister. Perhaps this did Elkin harm more than good. On the other
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Middle EastBy Janet S. Tiger (c) 2018 (Woman enters, she is nicely dressed, slight European accent, has an older skirt in her hands that she is holding) My family always wanted me to talk about what happened to me during WWII – but, after I did the interview for Shoah, I did not want to talk
Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses; Brookings Institution Press © 2018; ISBN 9780815-732723; 394 pages including index and glossary of people and places. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Formerly national president of the American Jewish Committee, trial attorney Alfred H. Moses had successfully lobbied the Communist
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that the first blast of hot air is gone, it may be possible to discuss l’Affaire Kashoggi rationally. First, the stipulations: Jamal Kashoggi should not have been killed. Period. In the longer form, that stipulation reads that no one should be killed by governments that disapprove of what
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Last week I conducted a panel discussion about Turkey under the leadership of Erdogan. The day before the event, we were alerted that several of Erdogan’s stooges will await us to disrupt the event, and we feared that violence may erupt. Earlier in the morning, NYU received a letter
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San Diego County Rabbis denounce Duncan Hunter’s attacks on Ammar Campa-Najjar A group of 17 active and retired rabbis in San Diego County, affiliated with the Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Conservative branches of Judaism have issued the following statement: “As rabbis and leaders of the Jewish community in the San Diego area, we are
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWhy the Jewish Community of Pittsburgh Did Not Want President Trump to Attend the Funerals of the Victims of the Tree of Life Massacre By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It expected that he would toss out boxes of Kleenex to the mourners. * It suspected that he intended to recruit minions rather than join a minyan.
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –If you missed Monday night’s community vigil at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, you’ll have another chance to attend an interfaith gathering memorializing the 11 Jews slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and honoring the four law enforcement officials also shot by the white supremacist gunman. Temple Beth
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “Wie es sich christelt, so judelt es sich.” This phrase can perhaps best be paraphrased as, “the Christian effect on Jewish life,” which is also the title of an important work by Rabbi Dr. Michael Hilton of London. But the idea is much larger than the subject of the
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy David Harris NEW YORK — We knew anti-Semitism was out there. We knew it was growing. More and more people felt uninhibited in expressing their hatred and bigotry. Deadly attacks against Jewish targets had already occurred in other countries, from Belgium to Bulgaria, Argentina to Panama, Turkey to Tunisia, and France to Denmark —
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent tragic events in Pittsburgh took my thoughts to Professor Robert Wistrich’s seminal study of anti-Semitism. Coining the phrase ‘the longest hatred’ to denote the phenomenon, and making it the title of his book, Wistrich describes the longstanding and widespread occurrence of anti-Semitism. In a subsequent tome, A
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between San Diego, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 2,450 miles, but the psychological distance between the two American cities was zero as representatives of many faiths filled Congregation Beth Israel’s sanctuary and synagogue to overflowing Monday evening, Oct. 29, in a vigil to express solidarity with the
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Chabad merges San Diego memorial gathering with community service at Beth Israel Rabbi Rafi Andrusier of Chabad of East County sent the following message: “After such a terrible tragedy, I sent an email on Saturday night about increasing Jewish unity. Chabad jumped into action and immediately setup an event to honor those holy souls who
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy 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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