Judaism

Latvia’s Murniece salutes memory of Shoah victims

Latvia News Agency Content provided by Asianet-Pakistan WASHINGTON, D.C. (LETA) — Latvia will always remember the victims of the Holocaust, said Saeima speaker Inara Murniece (National Alliance) when visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “The Holocaust is an incomprehensible tragedy of the Jewish nation and the Latvian history. The memory of the Holocaust victims […]

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International, Jewish History

Dutch Protestants denounce Luther’s anti- Semitism

  AMSTERDAM (dpa) – The Protestant Church in the Netherlands on Monday distanced itself from the anti-Semitic writings of the German reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), calling some of his statements “disgusting and objectionable.” In its declaration, the Church condemned for instance Luther’s 1543 pamphlet On the Jews and their Lies (Von den Juden und ihren Luegen),

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International, Jewish Religion

San Diego’s Yom HaShoah event set for May 1

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will host the annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration event taking place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Sunday, May 1st at 1:30 pm. San Diego’s commemoration is one the largest in the country with more than 500 community members attending. The commemoration

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Jewish History, San Diego County

‘Sage Advice’ unlocks some Pirkei Avot mysteries

Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot Translation and Commentary by Irving (Yitz) Greenberg; Maggid Books, New Milford, Connecticut; ISBN 978-1-59264-444-5 ©2016, $24.95, p. 336 plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Pirkei Avot, literally meaning “Chapters of the Fathers,” but often translated as “Ethics of the Fathers,” is part of the Talmud, the written form

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

The spy Ashraf Marwan and the Yom Kippur War

The Spy Who Fell To Earth: My Relationship with the Secret Agent Who Rocked the Middle East by Ahron Bregman; CreateSpace; © 2016; ISBN 13: 9781523339970; 120 pages including appendices. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Having read the San Diego Jewish World article by Joe Spier about the master spy Ashraf Marwan, historian Ahron

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East

For sale: Einstein letter on U.S. policy toward Nazis

A letter in which world-celebrated Jewish physicist Albert Einstein criticized insufficient action by the US to halt the actions of Nazi Germany will go under the hammer on April 18. In the September 3, 1942, letter, Einstein shared his concerns over US policy with his colleague Princeton University President Dr. Frank Kingdon, and used particularly

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International, Jewish History, USA

Arabs riot as Jews make pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb

Muslim rioters attacked a group of dozens of Jewish worshipers at the tomb of the Biblical Jewish patriarch Joseph in Shechem, during a pilgrimage to the site. Israeli Border Police forces and IDF Kfir Brigade soldiers accompanied 20 busloads of Jewish worshipers to the holy site last night. Under the Oslo Accords and other agreements

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Croatian Jews to boycott death camp commemoration

Croatian Jews said Monday they would boycott a commemoration ceremony for victims of the country’s most notorious World War II death camp, accusing authorities of failing to respond to a revival of pro-Nazi ideology. “Jewish municipalities in Croatia decided not to take part in the commemoration for the Jasenovac camp victims,” the country’s main Jewish

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International, Jewish History

Marriage choice should be “right” not “in” nor “out”

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi St. Martin’s Press, 2016; ISBN 978-1-250-07816-2; 372 pages; $25.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– The heart rules supreme, or at least it should have, in this novel covering four generations of Ladino-speaking Israelis. Next time that you try to forbid a son or a daughter from

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion