By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m sure that many Jews of my so-called “Baby Boomer” generation will recognize the way in which my late mother Alice would have reacted to two stories in Tuesday’s San Diego Union-Tribune. One story told about how movie mogul Harvey Weinstein may be facing life imprisonment for rape and […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA
From The Israel Philatelist FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts –Students and faculty leaders at the Foxborough Regional Charter School have completed 18 collages made with donated postage stamps and celebrated with an open house. The 18 signify Chai (Life). They have collected over 11 million stamps for the 6 million Jews and 5 million others murdered
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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
BDS movement attempts to hijack Jewish summer camp Scholars for Peace in the Middle East reported that the Camp Ramah movement rebuffed IfNotNow after it was revealed that the BDS group had trained camp counselors to introduce BDS themes to their campers. As their materials put it, IfNotNow’s workshop’s focused on how counselors could communicate to
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — In a rare instance of studying applicable law and history – (okay, Ivanka read the passages to him) — President Trump has learned that there are hardly any requirements for someone to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Unlike standards for U.S. president, senator or member of
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Take your pick. Should we begin with Sara Natanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, or Donald Trump? A prominent good government activist, Eliad Shraga, has been quoted in The Jerusalem Post. “The truth that nobody wants to say must be spoken . . . That woman is probably not mentally fit to stand
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps it is my bias, but sometimes I think that rabbis should often talk about the lessons drawn from their own lives and not only about the morals we should glean from the legends of such rabbis of old as Shammai, Hillel, and Tarfon. This is not to
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
SAN DIEGO — Jennifer Meltzer, Program Coordinator for the Lawrence Family JCC’s Neirman Preschool, has just been awarded a Sheva Leadership Institute Fellowship. Meltzer will join a cohort of 31 fellows from Early Childhood Education programs at JCCs throughout North America. This important honor for outstanding educators involves a three-year commitment, during which there will
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14. The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
JCC Association of North America gratified by conviction of Israeli who made multiple bomb threats A Tel Aviv District Court convicted 19-year-old Michael Ron David Kadar, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Thursday on multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, for the hundreds of bomb threats he made against Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the United States
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Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent furore over Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in enclosures that have been likened to cages, seems in the end to have brought out the best in American society. After all, virtually all Americans, Trump included, can trace their roots
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, USASAN DIEGO — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative brings together professors and researchers in Israel and San Diego for joint projects. Recently the organization named in honor of the late philanthropist and San Diego Jewish community leader Murray Galinson listed four of these projects in an email advisory. SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Polish mayors pledge themselves against anti- Semitism Mayors of Polish cities, attending the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) Central Europe conference in Warsaw on combating hate, have issued a joint statement urging implementation of a policy of “zero tolerance for prejudice, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.” The statement, signed by the mayors of Bialystok, Gdańsk, Poznań, and Warsaw,
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release) — The State of California appropriated $3.6 million to create the California Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, the first California-funded program that ensures that Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives with dignity. The proposal for the program was initiated and stewarded by Jewish Family Service of San Diego, in partnership
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San Diego County, USA
Poland revises its law on Holocaust responsibility The American Jewish Committee has welcomed the action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law. “As long-time friends of Poland, correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA