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Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 21, 2018 (4 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 21. 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. Bennet welcomes Herzog’s appointment as head of […]

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International, Middle East, USA

A posthumous salute for Rabbi Katz of Wellington

Editor’s Note: This is the 16th 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, 15 By Donald

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Jewish applause for U.S. withdrawal from UNHRC

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO/Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said “The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was an important step that reflects the longstanding frustration and disappointment of the United States. The UNHRC has long been

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump pressed to end family separations immediately

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Rep. Susan Davis (CA-53) led her House colleagues in calling on the Trump Administration to immediately start reuniting separated families. They asked key questions on how the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services are actually going to reunite separated family members. The letter comes after President Trump

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International, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 20, 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 20. 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. Tel Aviv University researchers perfect Archimedes Laser

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 19, 2018 (3 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 Tuesday, June 19. 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. Bernie Sanders blasts family separations at border

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

Going the way of movable type and printing presses

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Paul Aken operates the Platen Press Museum which is located, appropriately enough, in Mt. Zion, Illinois.  Although it is coincidental, the religiously themed name of Aken’s city harkens back to the primary use of movable type after it was invented in Germany in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg: It

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 18, 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 Monday, June 18. 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. * American Israel Public Affairs Committee pleased

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

OpEd: Betrayal of the Diaspora

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Jonathan Freedland is a distinguished British journalist and a committed Jew. He normally writes for The Guardian, but on June 18 he published an article in the London Jewish Chronicle with the tile, “Benjamin Netanyahu thinks non-orthodox Jewish life outside Israel is doomed: for Bibi, the diaspora is mostly

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Middle East, USA