International

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 11, 2018 (3 items)

Israel Defense Prize goes to man who discovered a way to detect Hamas tunnels Col. Yaniv Avitan, a graduate of the Jerusalem College of Technology’s (JCT) electro-optics engineering department, received the 2018 Israel Defense Prize from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for his role heading a team that works to detect the Hamas terror group’s […]

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, The World We Share, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 10, 2018 (4 items)

Measure for Israel’s defense moves through U.S. Senate committee AIPAC applauds the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (S. 2497), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing and emerging threats—including Iran’s presence close to Israel’s northern border. This

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Pompeo outlines strategy for opposing Iran

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined America’s strategy for opposing Iranian expansionism in the Middle East during an interview Tuesday with Mohannad Al Khatib of Sky News Arabia. The U.S. State Department issued the following transcript of the interview which was conducted at the Fairmont Hotel

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International, Middle East, USA

‘Just Kidding:’ Trump wants Tisha B’Av to be ‘fun again’

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Perplexed and more than a little peeved, President Trump was on a tear about the responses he’d been receiving from rabbis and other Jewish leaders he’d invited to a gala White House event the coming weekend of July 21-22. “Almost every RSVP for the kosher extravaganza has been along

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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Survivors to receive higher German payments

WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) — Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced on Tuesday the outcomes from the organization’s negotiations on behalf of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the German government. “The significant increase for social welfare services secured by our negotiating team will lead to more home care,

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International, Jewish History, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box, July 9, 2018 (5 items)

Mixed reactions to Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, released the following statement: “President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is an affront to the values and priorities of a vast majority of the American Jewish community. From workers’ rights

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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA

‘Jewish Libya:’ background for the next James Michener

Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacque Roumani, David Meghnagi & Judith Roumani; © 2018, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815-635628; 280 pages plus bibliography, appendices, and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Libya is an anthology about a place that no longer exists.  Since Israel’s successful 1967

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East

Diverse diners bid adieu to beloved restaurant

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Salute, an Italian restaurant in Marina Bay, lost its lease under parlous circumstances and closed. On the last two days they prepared hundreds of free last suppers. It was crowded. The valet parking area was overwhelmed. Our table seated five Jews and one son of a Nazi. All

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA

Ranking Poles, other Europeans on their anti- Semitism

By Ira Shakansky JERUSALEM — Somewhere on our list of problems are the Poles. Also Hungarians and other European nationalists, concerned mostly about Muslim refugees but also expressing some of their historic enmity for us. The most recent excitement has focused on a law enacted by the Polish parliament, which initially threatened criminal action against

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 8, 2018 (3 items)

South Carolina codifies anti-Semitism; wins plaudits from StandWithUs StandWithUs has applauded South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster, who signed into law on July 6 a Proviso which codifies the definition of Anti-Semitism. It offered special thanks to Representative Alan Clemmons (R), who spearheaded the measure which provides South Carolina colleges with a new rubric to use

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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Standing up to the ill- informed Israel haters

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — People with strategic antennae can detect a throwback to the Soviet inspired canard of Zionism is Racism. This radical left-wing anti-Israel trope raised its ugly head way back in 2001 at the UN World Conference Against Racism in South Africa where thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators and groups hijacked the event

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USA

Ruach, plenty of spirit, at Camp Mountain Chai

By Donald H. Harrison ANGELUS OAKS, California—Along with a few other San Diegans, I visited Camp Mountain Chai in the San Bernardino Mountains last week.  On arrival, I saw a Baer. It turned out that Dan Baer is the director of the camp, located 134 miles from the parking lot of the Jewish Federation of

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA