Editor, San Diego Jewish World: We are heartsick by what is happening to GLBT people in our country. Last night we read news accounts of the eighth teen suicide in the past few months – the suicide of 19-year-old Zach Harrington from Oklahoma. Earlier this weekend, we read the horrific story of the brutal attack […]
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USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)– As North American Jewish college students return to campus this Fall, their security on some campuses has been questioned by a leading group of antisemitism scholars in a statement on “Contemporary Antisemitism in Higher Education: Manifestations, Sources, and Responses.” Assembled for two weeks, July 26 – August 6, 2010, at the U.S.
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— Democratic and Republican Jewish affiliate groups on Sunday, Oct. 10, criticized an Ohio Republican congressional candidate who dressed up as a Nazi SS man in a World War II re-creation, and in the process also criticized each other. The National Jewish Democratic Council was the first to issue a news release about
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ton Saturday expressed outrage at the violent, brutal torture of a gay man in the Bronx. Over a period of hours, the victim was reportedly stripped, whipped, burned and sodomized by a gang of nine attackers who lured him into an apartment after first assaulting two
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USANEW YORK (WJC)–The 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has come out in favor of an inter-faith center near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in Manhattan, rather than the controversial ‘Ground Zero mosque’. The plan by American Muslims to build a mosque and Islamic center in New York near where the World
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USABOSTON (Press Release)–The National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday issued a clarion call for voices of reason and responsibility to “stand up and speak out against the surge of anti-Muslim bigotry” that has become prominent in the breakdown of civil discourse in American society. In a major address to the League’s Annual
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has reported to Congressman Brad Sherman about the progress that the Department of Education is making on the issue of whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus. “I’m extremely encouraged as a result of my conversation with Secretary Duncan,”
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — His was an odd speech for a President. He stood before the world and trashed the United States. “The blocks and neighborhoods of this great city tell the story of a difficult decade,” he said of New York, beginning with the attack on the World Trade Center and through the economic
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–Last month when I was visiting Seattle, I had the opportunity to take part in a “hearing” of the Olympia Food Co-op whose board had voted to boycott Israeli products. The 15,000 Co-op membership had not been consulted and some of them were upset–not that they were pro-Israel, they were ticked
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By Carol Davis LAS VEGAS–If you’re looking for spectacular, eye popping, lip drooling, utter amazement and sheer pleasurable entertainment drop in at the Wynn Resort on the Vegas Strip in Las Vegas and catch La Rêve (The Dream). you won’t be disappointed. Created by ex Cirque creator, Franco Dragone, the show is now in
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — U.S. Middle East Envoy George Mitchell met with journalists on Wednesday, September 15, in Jerusalem, and provided the following information: MITCHELL: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for the delay, but it’s the result of the fact that a serious and substantive discussion is well underway. The trilateral discussion this evening
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –After the 9-11 ceremonies, commentaries and protests, it hardly seems necessary to suggest it – everyone is already angry, right? No, everyone is offended: offended by plans for “Cordoba House,” a mosque within the World Trade Center damage zone; offended by how offended mosque supporters are with what they
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –It is customary to invest little in a serious reading of politicians’ speeches at long standing national holidays, like the 4th of July or Thanksgiving in the United States, Independence Day or Rosh Hashana in Israel. What about presidential statements at occasions where the feelings of those who have suffered are
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the planned 9/11 Koran burning event organized by Pastor Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “We condemn this proposed Koran burning. The ZOA has not and will not support or condone burning religious
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