Jewish History

Exploring the Oz family’s Lviv roots

LVIV, Ukraine (Press Release)– Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger, the daughter of acclaimed Israeli novelist Amoz Oz, retraced the footsteps of her father’s best-selling memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness on Wednesday, Nov. 12,  in the northern Ukrainian city of Rivne, as part of the four-day conference Limmud FSU Ukraine in Lviv. Oz-Salzberger, an author, historian and […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

2 Jewish groups to expand ‘My Family Story’

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)- The Israeli-American Council (IAC) and Beit Hatfutsot -The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv have announced a new partnership to lead and expand the museum’s popular My Family Story, a family heritage program, throughout the United States. Now in its 20th year, My Family Story is a global educational initiative

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Rabbi Tokayer chronicles the many Jews of Asia

Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

Baron to teach at Richard Stockton College

SAN DIEGO  (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World,  has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

Black churches: From whence Israel’s help may come

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Holocaust Survivor Lou Dunst and Christian Zionist preacher Rev. Dumisani Washington of Stockton, Calif., are four decades apart in age, yet hearing one and then the other speak, gave me reassurance that Washington’s message partially fulfills the intent of Dunst’s agonized rhetorical cry of pain: “And the Free World

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

WJC: Don’t pay Social Security to Nazi war criminals

NEW YORK (WJC)–The World Jewish Congress announced its support for a change in United States law that presently allows certain presumed Nazi war criminals who were granted US citizenship by making false statements to immigration authorities to keep their social security entitlements in case they voluntarily leave the country. As reported by the ‘Associated Press’

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Jewish History, USA

Daughters rue opera about terror victim

NEW YORK (Press Release) In advance of the opening of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night, Oct. 19, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement by Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, which will be featured in the playbill.　Following is the full text of the statement: Twenty nine years

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Belgian Interior Minister temporizes over Nazis’ allies

BRUSSELS (WJC) — Belgium’s new Interior Minister Jan Jambon of the separatist New Flemish Alliance (NVA) has spoken out in defense of people who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. The politician, who was sworn in as new federal deputy prime minister and interior minister last week, told  newspapers that war-time collaboration with

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International, Jewish History

Book Review: ‘In This Hospitable Land’

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –I have just finished reading In This Hospitable Land by Lynmar Brock Jr. which is based on the childhood experiences of the author’s wife and her family during WWII. It describes in great detail the trials and tribulations of the two Sauverin brothers, Alex and André, their parents, wives and children

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Genocide research endowed; first fellowship awarded

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship unit of the Institute housed on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA