Sarah Santiago, 17, is accused of aiding two teenagers who fatally shot three men at the Islamic Center of San Diego on May 18 before they drove away from the scene and committed suicide in their car. (SDJW staff0
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An important question: whether showing antisemitic imagery provides enough educational benefit to justify the potential harm of displaying it to students. For me, this was a reminder that the technology can help generate ideas, but the educator still has to make the final decision about what students should see and how a difficult subject should be introduced. (Cai;in Acosta)
ADL’s version of Ai helpful in classrooms–but with guard rails Read More »
Antisemitism, Cailin Acosta, California, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USAThe Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel initiative (MGSDII) and the Joan B. Kroc School for Peace Studies will collaborate in bringing two Hebrew University faculty members — a Palestinian and a Jew — to the University of San Diego campus to jointly teach a course in conflict resolution. (SDJW staff report)
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If Macklemore wants to continue calling the situation in Gaza a genocide and turning music concerts into political rallies, he’s free to do so. But Kraft, who is a proud Jew, does not have to give him the platform. (Pearce Alexander)
Macklemore’s free speech was never the issue. His Israel rhetoric was Read More »
Israel, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAthe West demanded that Israel dismantle a deeply embedded terrorist army tightly woven into a dense, labyrinthine urban maze, but denied them the chronological timeline required to do it manually. (SDJW staff report)
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Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) brought 240 bereaved Israeli teens to the United States this summer through its signature Legacy Program, marking the 20th year of the program and its largest summer to date. Each participant lost a parent or sibling in defense of Israel on or since Oct. 7, 2023. (Press Release)
In a hearing on Yom Kippur day, a court provisionally dismissed felony charges against five students who vandalized the executive offices in Stanford University’s administration building, prompting the Jewish Community Relations Council – Bay Area and Jewish Silicon Valley to issue this statement on Tuesday, Sept. 22: (SDJW staff roundup)
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Antisemitism, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, Press Release, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAShotgun wielding Sean Ward, 29, of Quinte West wounded a police officer stationed outside The Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Canada, on Kol Nidre night. Constable Jeff Smith and another officer returned fire, seriously wounding Ward, the Associated Press reported. [SDJW staff report]
The fight against terrorism and antisemitism: September 21, 2026 Read More »
Antisemitism, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USARabbis across Michigan will devote part of their sermons to five “non-negotiables” that they hope Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will honor. (SDJW staff roundup)
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“All the prayers and rallies will not help unless we Jews arm ourselves to the teeth. We need to walk and travel in pairs or groups. Avoid the Ivy League schools where there are both professors and students who wish to destroy us. …” {SDJW staff report}
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He believes that hormone deficiency in older marines, sailors, and soldiers accounts for why Iran was not beaten into total submission in four to five weeks as President Trump initially predicted. (Laurie Baron)
Satire: Masculinizing the US military Read More »
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On Friday, September 13, 1991, a couple of days before Yom Kippur, it suddenly hit me: next Monday, September 16, was the Day of Atonement. I don’t observe most religious holidays or rules, but on Yom Kippur I don’t eat, I don’t work, and I go to the synagogue for the Yizkor memorial prayer. Even back in the Soviet Union, I was Jewish twice a year: on Passover and Yom Kippur. [Yakov Nayerman]
Becoming a Russian Jew Read More »
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The anti-Israel mob concocted a novel legal strategy on Monday when former Columbia University students sued their alma mater: the defendant mobilized a pattern of “deliberate indifference.” (Bruce S. Ticker)
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University for ‘deliberate indifference’ Read More »
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Two departments of the federal government and Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) of Harrogate, Tennessee, have reached a settlement in a case in which Jewish medical students have complained of discrimination, it was reported by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law. (Press Release)
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