Editor’s Note: Want to learn more about the Jewish players mentioned in the story below? Have your mouse hover over the name of the player and a link will appear. SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Are you interested in how Jewish baseball players are doing in the majors and the minors? The website Jewish Baseball News […]
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions
By Norman Greene CASABLANCA, Morocco — Dressed in her head-to-toe hajab or jalaba, she reminded me of an Arabic version of San Diego’s late travel maven Gert Thaler as she skillfully guided us on our quest around the old Jewish Quarter in Casablanca. She was effusive, charming, funny and full of energy. We had
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Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In a well-run library, books are not only organized, kept in good repair, new books of interest added, but also those of less interest are withdrawn. In looking over Temple Emanu-El’s library collection of biographies I noted that the shelves were full and perhaps it was time to consider
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Jewish History
NEW YORK (Press Release)- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has congratulated U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-New York) for the successful passage of her Protect Cemeteries Act (H.R. 4028) in the House of Representatives. If Meng’s bill is next approved by the Senate (S. 2466) and signed by the President, the International Religious Freedom Act
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It’s easy to take those we love for granted. Sometimes it is only after they are gone that we realize how much they meant to us, how much we counted upon them, and how much they added to our lives. This was the lesson the Israelites learned after the
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Jewish ReligionEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The U-T’s People column on Page A-2 took up the comments Gary Oldman made about Jews in Hollywood (for which he later apologized). About Mel Gibson, Oldman said that the actor “is in a town run by Jews
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
LONDON (WJC) –The British actor Gary Oldman on Tuesday apologized after claiming in a ‘Playboy’ interview that Hollywood was a “town run by Jews.” Oldman said fellow actor and director Mel Gibson was being unfairly ostracized over his anti-Semitic remarks. Following criticism by Jewish organizations, Oldman issued an apology in which he described Jews as
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International, Jewish Religion, USA
By Sheryl DeVore SOUTH BEND, Indiana — When Andrew Berlin purchased a losing baseball team with the goal of improving park attendance and scores, he didn’t realize that he would also be repurposing a century-old synagogue that could have easily succumbed to the wrecking ball. The CEO of Berlin Packaging, a Chicago-based business with
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has won plaudits from Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project, for usually being willing to look over old cases that the project based at Cal Western School of Law in San Diego
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The team behind the award-winning documentary Finding Kalman has published an interactive archive of Holocaust remembrance portraits, bridging the past and the present, biography and imagery, and leveraging the power of art to discuss difficult subjects. Naïve artists have created more than 500 black-and-white pastel portraits of Holocaust survivors, victims,
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Jewish Religion
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) – The 34th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival returns to the Bay Area July 24-August 10, 2014 at the Castro Theatre and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, the CinéArts Theatre in Palo Alto, the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, The California Theatre and
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Wednesday, June 25, marks the one-year anniversary of the Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision that invalidated parts of the Voting Rights Act. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA). Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,
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Jewish Religion, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–The disheartening, though not entirely surprising, breakdown of talks between Israel and the Palestinians marked yet another failure by the two sides to come closer to an agreement that would usher the way for a Palestinian state. Yet, no sooner had the talks collapsed than blame was being assigned by
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Jewish History, Middle East, Richard L. CravattsEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Because he is from California, the new Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, is under pressure to show that he is at least as conservative as Eric Cantor, who gave up the leadership position after
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County