Judaism

Campus thugs threaten Jewish students

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little […]

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish presence diminishes in Butte, Montana

-Thirteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison BUTTE, Montana – In this old west city where the very first mayor was Jewish, Montana’s oldest synagogue may be on the verge of dying. Meanwhile, at the city’s annual Montana Folk Festival, the klezmer music of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews is periodically reincarnated. Thus summer visitors

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USA

Saperstein to be U.S. envoy

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key Administration post: ·         Rabbi David Nathan Saperstein – Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Department of State President Obama said, “I am grateful that Rabbi Saperstein has chosen to dedicate his talent to serving the

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Jewish Religion, USA

Home of Eternity: So Cal’s oldest Jewish cemetery

–Fifth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison SAN BERNARDINO, California –As grandson Shor and I continued our tour up the Interstate 15 from Riverside, it seemed only a matter of minutes until we reached San Bernardino, site of the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in Southern California. The Home of Eternity, at 8th

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA

WJC backs San Diego family’s art claim against Spain

MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum should return the Impressionist masterpiece ‘Rue Saint-Honoré’ to the heirs of the Jewish family from whom it was stolen by the Nazis shortly before World War II, the president of the World Jewish Congress urged on Friday. The Madrid museum is owned by the Spanish state. “Since 1988, Spain

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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Books tell of Germany’s destroyed synagogues

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (TNA)–I literally trembled with emotion when I held the two volumes ofPogrom Night 1938: A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany. Together they comprise over seven hundred pages which are packed with information about the more than one thousand synagogues and prayer rooms that existed in pre-WWII Germany

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History

Temecula’s literary legacy: ‘Perry Mason,’ ‘Ramona’

  -Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA

Here’s to a good night’s ‘Shluff’

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — “Shluff, now, mamellah.” My mother and grandmother used to say that to me after a few urgings to “Gai shluffen” or, more commonly, “gai shluffie.” How’d you shluff last night? For about 70 million Americans, yes, even readers of the wonderful, positive, life-enhancing San Diego Jewish World,

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education