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Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

March 29, 2018

RENO, Nevada (Press Release) – This year the State of Israel celebrates seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. To mark this occasion, the Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli women artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work that are grounded in the […]

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Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

March 29, 2018

By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

March 29, 2018

PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) – “My son was a hero, not just on the last day of his life but throughout his life.” This is how Linda Schulman spoke of her son, georaphy teacher Scott Beigel, just five and a half weeks after he was murdered protecting students at the Parkland High School in

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jet ski ambulance rides the Sea of Galilee

March 29, 2018

EIN GEV, Israel (Press Release) — Every year during Pesach, hundreds of thousands of people visit the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and Magen David Adom is preparing accordingly by strengthening the forces in the area with an MDA Jet-Ski, which will be in operation from the beginning of the Pesach vacation in the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

March 29, 2018

This is the fourth in a series of stories developed during Don & Nancy’s golden anniversary trip to Australia and cruise back to San Diego. To read previous stories in the series, please click on their corresponding number: 1, 2, 3. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – There are a number of fascinating places

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

Political change most likely when incremental

March 28, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the flurries swirling around this tiny country are uncertainties about its future. Some see our destiny dependent on reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. However, Palestinians have been saying no for more than 80 years, and are currently on the cusp of another civil war among who knows how

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

March 28, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World likes to present a broad spectrum of opinion, and for that reason we published a column today by Michael Hayutin in which he takes issue with protesters, including those students who have been organizing marches around the country to demand serious efforts be made

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

March 28, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) –Following a message from a professor on San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas’ (AMED) Facebook page calling the welcoming of pro-Israel students a ‘declaration of war,’ 60 organizations and many concerned citizens demanded an investigation. California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and SFSU President Leslie

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

OpEd: Virtue signaling

March 28, 2018

By Mike Hayutin SAN DIEGO — Activists will tell us that protest is the purest form of patriotism. Sounds pretty noble doesn’t it? Academics, primarily agenda driven leftists, encourage kids to march as a symbol of commitment. I suggest a more profound form of patriotism as a predicate before protest. How about gratitude? The former

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USA

As VP, he would have been on call 24/6?

March 28, 2018

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The first Orthodox Jewish member of the U.S, Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who ran for U.S. Vice President in 2000, has just published a book of philosophical essays related to counting the Omer. The book, With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day From Egypt to Sinai, (Maggid/OU Press),

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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, USA

Waiting for the Gaza march

March 28, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Three young men crossed the border at Gaza and were found wandering on Israeli territory in the hope of being jailed here. They reckoned, so I heard a commentator explain, that life in an Israeli prison is better than the life they now have in ostensible freedom in Gaza.

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Middle East

Tel Aviv style beach parties set for 160 U.S. campuses

March 27, 2018

NEW YORK (Press Release) –This April, millions of college students across the country will engage with a coalition of pro-Israel organizations to mark the Jewish State’s 70th birthday with Tel Aviv beach party-style celebrations at more than 160 university campuses across the U.S. and Canada including San Diego State University and UC San Diego. The

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel gets ready for Passover

March 26, 2018

By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — What’s it like to be in Israel where, according to a 2017 Jewish People Policy Institute survey, 97% of Israeli Jews host or participate in a Passover Seder? If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out “alter zachen” (‘old things’) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Simone Veil’s memoir provides inspiration for all

March 26, 2018

Une Vie (One Life) by Simone Veil, (c) 2017, Stock, France. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — On the cover of Simone Veil’s autobiography, written in 2007, we read that she is a member of the Academie Francaise, though this is not mentioned in the book. It would seem that after a long and

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

Ambu- cycles donated in honor of Parkland H.S. victims

Jet ski ambulance rides the Sea of Galilee

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

Political change most likely when incremental

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

SF State president reproves anti- Israel professor

OpEd: Virtue signaling

As VP, he would have been on call 24/6?

Waiting for the Gaza march

Tel Aviv style beach parties set for 160 U.S. campuses

Israel gets ready for Passover

Simone Veil’s memoir provides inspiration for all

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