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Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Capitol correspondent Steven Greenhut reported on Page A-2 that State Sen. Mark Leno’s bill to require a kill switch that would enable owners to turn off stolen cellphones is running into controversy. Approved by an Assembly committee, […]

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two prominent Jewish philanthropic families will have their names forever linked to cancer treatment at a hospital being built on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. The hospital is called the Jacobs Medical Center, after the family of

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Capitol correspondent Steven Greenhut noted in a page A-2 story that State Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) had exulted in 2010 following passage of Proposition 25, which reduced from two-thirds to a majority the number

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was pictured on page 2, in an AP photo taken during the budget debate, in a discussion with Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, and Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar.

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary election last Tuesday, June 10, continues to reverberate. In the U-T’s “Winners and Losers” column, an item about Cantor was at the top of the

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Matt Lauer, who considers himself “half-Jewish” because of his father, has signed a multiple year contract extension as host of NBC’s Today show, the U-T reports in its “People” section. * Three Jewish teenage Yeshiva students , kidnapped

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two Jewish Democratic officeholders from Los Angeles – Congressman Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Richard Bloom – are in the thick of the controversy over whether it is either ethical or humane to keep orcas and cetaceans in captivity.  

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Congresswoman Susan Davis was among those questioning Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about the trade of Taliban operatives for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, June 11. According to a U-T story by Mark Walker, Davis wanted to know if there wasn’t a way

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary was the lead story which the U-T culled from the Associated Press and The Washington Post.  It quoted Cantor’s victorious opponent, tea party factionist David Brat, as exulting: “This is a miracle from God that just happened.”  Brent

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Tifereth Israel Synagogue in the San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos is breaking the mold in local synagogue financing by eliminating mandatory membership dues and asking congregants to contribute what they wish. Administrators at the Conservative congregation are confident that members’ voluntary contributions will be more than enough to sustain