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German Jews fared well in 20th century Britain

April 18, 2018

Their Promised Land; My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma; Penguin Random House, 2017 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I found this book so fascinating that I read it more or less in one sitting and, having read it on my Kindle, proceeded to order the paperback version from Amazon as I knew I […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Violence down, hate speech up against Jews

April 18, 2018

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Anti-Semitic violence around the world dropped 9% from 2016 to 2017, but a “dramatic increase” of all other forms of anti-Semitic manifestations, including harassment and hate speech, has raised increasingly “grave concerns among Jews regarding their security and the continuation of communal life,” according to an annual report from Tel

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

California Assembly observes Yom HaShoah

April 16, 2018

SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — The California State Assembly honored Holocaust survivors, descendants of survivors, and World War II liberators residing throughout the state during its annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on Monday “As we remember the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, it is alarming to learn that

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Jewish History, USA

Biography of Jerusalem has its agenda

April 16, 2018

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Simon Sebag-Montefiore brings impeccable credentials to the monumental task of writing Jerusalem: The Biography. A history Ph.D. from Cambridge, he has been a banker and a foreign correspondent reporting on, among other events, the fall of the Soviet Union. He is also the great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore, the international

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

BGU accepts flag by Israel’s Betsy Ross

April 16, 2018

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — In honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, American Associates, an Israeli flag created by Rebecca Affachiner, often called “the Betsy Ross of Israel,” has been donated to the Ben-Gurion Archives at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on the Sede Boqer Campus. Rebecca Affachiner

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Jewish History, Middle East

Censoring Holocaust memory

April 16, 2018

Editor’s Note This is a transcript of Edwin Black’s April 11, 2018 keynote address in the Michigan Capitol Rotunda for that state’s official Holocaust Commemoration. By Edwin Black LANSING, Michigan — Today, I come not just to mourn nor to scorn but rather to warn our world, that is, the world of today whose memories

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, USA

South Carolina tackles campus anti- Semitism

April 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) on Friday applauded the South Carolina General Assembly for being the first state to pass legislation that will help tackle the rising anti-Semitism plaguing U.S. college campuses. The legislation, which was included as part of a larger state spending package,

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Jewish History, USA

Memory in the Living Room

April 12, 2018

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –In recent years it has become customary in Israel, in addition to the official ceremonies marking Holocaust Day, for small groups of people, whether survivors, descendants of survivors, or simply those who feel a connection to the subject, to gather together in private homes and talk about their own

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East

A Gaslamp Tale of Fox and Lion

April 11, 2018

By Sandee Wilhoit Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation SAN DIEGO — America has always been the land of immigrants and opportunity. This was especially true during the 19th century when Horace Greeley’s philosophy that the road to success was paved with hard work and perseverance was the inspiration for many seeking a better and more prosperous

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Jewish History, San Diego County

Cedars- Sinai surgeon tells of Shoah survival

April 11, 2018

By Martin Miller LOS ANGELES — The first time George Berci heard a siren, he was 23 years old. It was the summer of 1944, on the outskirts of Budapest, he was one of hundreds of Jewish conscripted laborers who were packed into a railroad car as human freight. They were bound for a concentration

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Jewish History

JFS, looking back a century, recalls Rose Neumann

April 8, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final article in a series about Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s centennial celebration, and eight women who will be honored at the organization’s gala on April 21. To see previous stories please click on the number in the series: 1, 2, 3. By Donald H. Harrison SAN

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Valley Center days

April 2, 2018

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori VALLEY CENTER, California – Not being an incorporated city, Valley Center is not so well known as neighboring Escondido, located about nine miles to its southwest. But, perhaps surprisingly, this rural town has lots of Jewish history—and U.S. presidential history as well. The Lilac Ranch,

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

March 29, 2018

By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

March 29, 2018

This is the fourth in a series of stories developed during Don & Nancy’s golden anniversary trip to Australia and cruise back to San Diego. To read previous stories in the series, please click on their corresponding number: 1, 2, 3. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – There are a number of fascinating places

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

German Jews fared well in 20th century Britain

Violence down, hate speech up against Jews

California Assembly observes Yom HaShoah

Biography of Jerusalem has its agenda

BGU accepts flag by Israel’s Betsy Ross

Censoring Holocaust memory

South Carolina tackles campus anti- Semitism

Memory in the Living Room

A Gaslamp Tale of Fox and Lion

Cedars- Sinai surgeon tells of Shoah survival

JFS, looking back a century, recalls Rose Neumann

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Valley Center days

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

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