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California State Budget addresses Jewish issues

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) — The California State Legislature on Thursday approved the 2018-2019 State Budget, which prioritizes the needs of Holocaust Survivors, campus climate, the security of nonprofits, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The California Legislative Jewish Caucus, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish Family Services, and Anti-Defamation League issued the following statements: “The Legislature demonstrated a

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USA

Erdogan’s ‘Trojan Horse’ in Macedonia

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Turkey’s President Erdogan makes no secret of his ambition to spread his neo-Ottoman wings all over the Balkans. He views Macedonia as another Turkish satellite in the making, which sadly the Macedonian government seems to have embraced without carefully assessing the long-term adverse ramifications. Very few

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 14, 2018 (6 Items)

SAN DIEGO  — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Thursday, June 14. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Even when fasting for Ramadan, Muslim volunteers

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rambam Health Center drills for a missile attack

HAIFA, Israel  (Press Release)– An emergency drill was conducted Thursday at Rambam Health Care Campus with the scenario of a missile attack on the Haifa area, forcing the only referral hospital in the north to transfer operations to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This unique facility, the largest of its kind in the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Germany’s trade with Russia, Iran imperils Middle East

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is taking flak for having introduced a subject to the G-7 meeting that our European friends wanted to keep under the table. Russia. The allies expressed horror when Mr. Trump said, “Why are we having a meeting without Russia? We have a world to run… We should have Russia

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Rav Adin Steinsaltz honored in Jerusalem for life’s work

  By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM — Once in a generation – if we’re lucky – do we witness the creation of a project so expansive, so extraordinary, that it revolutionizes Jewish scholarship for hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions — of people, and for future generations. Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz is perhaps best known for

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein Greenwald

Cushion stars and tuataras in Picton, N.Z.

Editor’s Note: This is the 15th 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 By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, International, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Exhausting, yet fun, travel in North America

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Six weeks, eleven flights, six states, one one-week cruise and four countries (not including the USA). That is feeble compared with the Beatles’ tour of the USA in 1965 (twenty-five cities in thirty days), but they were much younger than we were (and probably flew first class). One

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA

Israel also has its political foolishness

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics can be as cheap, demagogic, and seemingly stupid here as elsewhere. Americans living under Donald Trump shouldn’t claim oneupsmanship. His Israeli equivalents can be just as hard to understand, or shameful. One recent fiasco concerns manipulations by the Minister of Culture and Sport, Meri Regev. According to reports, she

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Bruins file complaints against anti- Israel disrupters

By Edwin Black LOS ANGELES — Criminal complaints are now being filed by students following the belligerent disruption of a May 17 Students Supporting Israel [SSI] event at University of California Los Angeles. At least a half-dozen students announced they would visit the UCLA police department to file formal complaints reporting criminal disruption of a

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 13, 2018 (5 Items)

SAN DIEGO  — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Wednesday, June 13. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor makes Aliyah from New

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Bulgaria PM: Israel has right to decide its capital

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, addressing the AJC Global Forum, extolled his country’s close relations with Israel, recalled the efforts of his countrymen to save Bulgaria’s Jewish population during World War II, and expressed support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “I feel at home and in the company of

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International, Jewish History, Middle East