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From the Jewish Library: ‘Timechart History…’

January 24, 2016

The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, edited and designed by Meredith MacArdle, World Press Ltd., 2010, Consultant: Judy Gold, Director, London Jewish Cultural Center By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — This is a large coffee table sized book that opens with a spectacular full color, sixteen page, unfolding panel which is eleven feet long. It […]

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AMCHA Initiative database tracks anti- Semitic incidents

January 19, 2016

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California– As a resource to current and prospective students, parents, university administrators, elected officials, researchers, and donors, AMCHA Initiative has unveiled a database that chronicles anti-Semitic incidents that occurred over the past academic year by state and university. The incidents are organized into three categories: Targeting Jewish Students and Staff, Anti-Semitic Expression and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

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Jewish History, USA

Pope Francis visits Rome Synagogue

January 18, 2016

ROME (WJC) Pope Francis on Sunday paid his first visit to a synagogue as Catholic pontiff, greeting Rome’s Jewish community in a show of interfaith friendship. Rome’s Great Synagogue is home of the oldest Jewish community in the Diaspora. The pope joined a standing ovation of the congregation when Holocaust survivors wearing striped scarves reminiscent

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International, Jewish History

The amazing saga of Operation Solomon

January 15, 2016

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — In the Spring of 1991, my wife and I, touring Israel, together with a small group of Calgarians, found ourselves in a caravan camp on the outskirts of Mazkeret Batya, our sister city. There we encountered the most remarkable sight; Jews who before their very recent arrival in Israel

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Jewish life reborn in Sicily

January 14, 2016

By Michael Freund PALERMO, Italy — Something extraordinary is happening in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. More than five centuries after the forced conversion to Catholicism of large numbers of Sicilian Jews, followed by the expulsion of the rest, a nascent rebirth is well underway, as growing numbers of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim (whom historians refer

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International, Jewish History

Biographers can be inspired by Fumiko Ishioka

January 8, 2016

Karen Levine, Hana’s Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery; © 20r Te02, 2012; Random House Children’s Books; ISBN 978-1-101-93349-7; 135 pages, $9.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Perhaps because I’m in the process of researching a local biography, I’m all the more impressed by the resourcefulness and stick-to-it-iveness of Fumiko Ishioka,

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

Workshops on Holocaust set at UCSD

January 2, 2016

LA JOLLA, California (SDJW) — The Holocaust Living History Workshop at UCSD has scheduled 5 p.m. presentations by survivor Max Garcia and refugee Moselio Schaechter in the Seuss Room of the Geisel Library respectively on January 13 and Feb. 10. Susanne Hillman, project manager, provided these sketches of the upcoming presentations: Think Only of Today:

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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar

Ashraf Marwan: Master spy for Israel or Egypt?

January 1, 2016

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — The Yom Kippur war of 1973 was an Israeli military success to the extent that when the cease fire came into effect the Syrian invading army had been pushed back behind the 1967 armistice line and though Egyptian forces had established a beachhead on the Israeli held side of

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Jewish History, Middle East

‘There’s a Jewish story every where’: Clarion, Utah

December 29, 2015

The Jewish Farming Settlement of Clarion, Utah: The Possible, Impossible dream (Editor’s Note: The following historical article is reprinted with permission from the Winter 2016 edition of Western States Jewish Quarterly.) By Jerry Klinger CLARION, Utah — European anti-Semitism had not improved by the latter half of the 19th century. If anything it became more vicious. “What

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Did Holocaust survivor love or just use her protector?

December 27, 2015

Love in a World of Sorrow by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Gefen Publishing House © 2015, ISBN 9780965-229-839-3l 252 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –There are many authors like Fanya Gottesfeld Heller who tell their survival stories from the Holocaust at school assemblies and other forums. In San Diego County, the names of Gussie

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

That ‘Other’ Part of the Family

December 27, 2015

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Most families have some cousins they would rather not think about. Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, by Stephen Birmingham (Syracuse University Press, 1996) and Poor Cousins by Ande Manners (Putnam Publishers Group, 1972) relate the stories of the powerful Jewish families of New York and

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USA

FB group explores German- Jewish identity

December 26, 2015

By Vera Meyer MALDEN, Massachusetts — I became interested in German Jewish history and culture because these are my roots, this is my heritage. Both my parents came from Germany. Both their families were deeply assimilated into German culture; that is to say, they were proud to be Germans first and Jews second. The spirit

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International, Jewish History

I-8 Jewish Travel: A pioneer in sexual medicine

December 24, 2015

-36th in a Series — Exit 11: Lake Murray/ 70th Street, San Diego ~ San Diego Institute for Sexual Medicine By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—One might wonder what led to Dr. Irwin Goldstein becoming the head of what is believed to be the first, and perhaps only, hospital-accredited sexual medicine practice in the United States.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Yes, Rebecca, Jews live there too!

December 21, 2015

Scattered Among the Nations by Bryan Schwartz, Joy Sand and Sandy Carter; Weldon Owen publisher, Visual Anthropology Press, 251 pages, cover price $60. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m going to rearrange the sequence of Bryan Schwartz’s narrative and photography book so that we can always travel toward the east, almost around the world,

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

From the Jewish Library: ‘Timechart History…’

AMCHA Initiative database tracks anti- Semitic incidents

Pope Francis visits Rome Synagogue

The amazing saga of Operation Solomon

Jewish life reborn in Sicily

Biographers can be inspired by Fumiko Ishioka

Workshops on Holocaust set at UCSD

Ashraf Marwan: Master spy for Israel or Egypt?

‘There’s a Jewish story every where’: Clarion, Utah

Did Holocaust survivor love or just use her protector?

That ‘Other’ Part of the Family

FB group explores German- Jewish identity

I-8 Jewish Travel: A pioneer in sexual medicine

Yes, Rebecca, Jews live there too!

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