Judaism

Yiddishists sponsor free Shabbat dinner, concert

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA) will debut in San Diego with a free Shabbat dinner and concert and klezmer concert by Yale Strom beginning at 7 p.m., Friday, at the Costa Verde Village Clubhouse, 8720 Costa Verde Blvd., San Diego. According to its founder, Jana Mazurkiewicz, […]

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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar

Texas inmate wins Orthodox Jews the right to kosher meals in prison

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas inmate has won a 12-year battle with the state over access to kosher meals in prison. Inmate Max Moussazadeh dropped his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after persuading the state to provide kosher food not only to him but to all Orthodox Jewish inmates in

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Jewish Religion, USA

Passover Seder at United Nations

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, held a Passover Seder at the UN with the participation of dozens of ambassadors from various countries. Danon told the ambassadors about the meaning of the Passover holiday and explained to them the holiday’s customs. Afterwards, ambassadors read excerpts from the Haggadah and ate the traditional holiday

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Bernie Appel, longtime executive known as Mr. RadioShack, dies

FORT WORTH, Texas — Bernie Appel was known as Mr. RadioShack. Over a 34-year career that started before Charles Tandy brought the company to Fort Worth, Appel was credited with transforming the consumer electronics retailer from transistor radios and telephone jacks to computers and camcorders. Appel died Sunday. He was 85. The Boston native joined

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

Int’l Fellowship of Christians, Jews provide funds for Pesach to needy Jews in Israel, Former Soviet Union

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – More than 150,000 needy Israelis and 200,000 needy Jews in the former Soviet Union, from all walks of life, will receive food and clothing for the Passover holiday, thanks to International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship). The Fellowship will distribute more than $2.8 million in Passover aid to needy Israelis, including

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Anti-racism campaigner Darcus Howe dies aged 74

Darcus Howe, one of Britain’s most prominent anti-racism campaigners, has died in London aged 74. An uncompromising champion for racial justice and fierce opponent of police brutality, Howe was born in British-ruled Trinidad in 1943 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1961. He intended to study law at London’s Middle Temple, but abandoned his

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International, Obituaries & memorials

Still teaching at 96, a WWII hero professor receives the French Legion of Honor

Justus Rosenberg worked for the American Rescue Committee, the French resistance, the US Army, and the UN, to clandestinely save thousands from the Nazis By Cathryn J. Prince Professor Justus Rosenberg receiving the French Legion of Honor from the French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud on Thursday, March 30, 2017. (Emily Stern) Justus

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International, Jewish History

‘Babi Yar’ poet Yevtushenko dies

  TULSA, Oklahoma (WJC) — Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose 1961 poem about the Nazi massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev helped to expose rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, died Saturday at 84. Yevtushenko passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had been a faculty member at the University of Tulsa since the mid-1990s.Some 34,000 Jews were

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials

Students asked to debate Final Solution from Nazis’ perspective

A New York teacher has come under fire for giving an assignment asking students to debate the final solution from the Nazis’ point of view, The Algemeiner reported. In the assignment, titled “Top Secret: Memorandum for Senior Nazi Party Members,” students were asked to recreate the debate that took place at the infamous Wannsee Conference,

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Jewish History, USA

The Last Passover in Cairo

Editor’s Note:  San Diego Jewish World is pleased to republish a Passover monologue written by San Diego playwright Janet S. Tiger, who was the recent subject of a feature story on these pages.  By Janet S. Tiger (A man comes out, in Army fatigues, he is holding a box of matzohs.  He speaks calmly, with

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Jewish Religion

500-year-old ‘Prague Haggadah’ found

Just prior to Pesach (Passover), the National Library of Israel revealed that it had acquired the velum Prague Haggadah two months ago, when the library purchased the famed Valmadonna Collection of Judaica. The Haggadah was printed in Prague in 1556. A previous Haggadah was printed in 1526, but no copy survived. Several elements of the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East

In Tel Aviv, a glimpse into the turbulent years when the British ruled

Lehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am The entrance to the Lehi Museum, located on a street named for Avraham Stern in south Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Stern’s room in Tel Aviv, where

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International, Jewish History, Middle East