WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Annual Congressional Tribute event marking Jewish American Heritage Month will take place on Tuesday, May 8, in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, featuring leading members of the United States House of Representatives and Senate. Among the members of Congress scheduled to attend are Senators […]
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Jewish History, USA
Irreverent Forever: True Tales From a Newspaperman’s Outrageously Rewarding Life by David Arledge Feldman; © 2018, Gray Castle Publishing, ISBN 9781987-713190; 226 pages plus appendix and acknowledgments. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Journalist David Arledge Feldman inherited his father’s sense of humor, but not his Jewish religion. For most of his life,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced that Israeli political scientist, Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik, will be teaching courses in the History and Political Science Departments and will be in residence at SDSU for the 2018/19 academic year. Her residency is supported by a grant from the Murray
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations hosted an historic event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage recognizing and commemorating the acts of Muslims who welcomed, hosted and protected Jews during the Holocaust. His Excellency, Dr. Mohammad Ibn Abdulkarim Alissa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League headquartered
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Representatives Peter Roskam (R-IL), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Kay Granger (R-TX), and Marc Veasey (D-TX), the co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, issued the following joint statement on a recent report by the Kantor Center for the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Press Release) — On weekends as a child, Dana Rogozinski sat with her grandmother, Ella, at the kitchen table playing with beads and baubles. Ella, a Holocaust survivor, was self-taught in the art of stringing pearls and worked as a jeweler for a high-end jewelry store in Jacksonville, Florida. Her grandmother’s Auschwitz forearm
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh 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 By Donald H. Harrison
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — In recognition of Yom Hashoah, members of Bat Harim Hadassah, and community leaders, in San Diego, recently gathered for a presentation and post discussion with William Bernstein, Director of Institutional Advancement for the Western Region, American Society for Yad Vashem. Bernstein introduced the mission of Yad Vashem by quoting Avner Shalev,
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Jewish History, Middle East, USATheir 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 HistoryTEL 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
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
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
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 EastEditor’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