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Editor’s E-Mail Box: March 20, 2019 (6 items)

Republican Jewish Coalition denounces Clyburn’s comparison of Trump to Hitler The Republican Jewish Coalition responded to remarks Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) made to NBC News Tuesday, comparing Donald Trump’s presidency with Hitler’s rise to power. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said:  “Asked about today’s political environment, Rep. Clyburn drew parallels between President Trump and Adolf […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

Susan Davis lauded for constituent service

WASHINGTON (Press Release)  – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (CA-53) was named a finalist for The Congressional Management Foundation’s (CMF) highly competitive Democracy Awards for excellence in the Constituent Service category. The award focuses on how an office serves constituents, especially how it uses and leverages specific, methodical, and consistent processes for achieving measurable results in

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San Diego County, USA

MEF announces San Diego schools settlement

PHILADELPHIA  (Press Release) — The Middle East Forum has issued the following news release: The Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) ubiquitous presence in the San Diego Unified School District is over, thanks in part to the Middle East Forum. A settlement in the federal lawsuit against the District, substantially funded by MEF, ends the District’s

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander

Kaddish.Com by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf; © 2019; ISBN 9781524-732752; 203 pages; $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar

Humoring the Headlines: March 14, 2019

“Always Something There to Remind Me” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — This week I returned from several weeks of travel in Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom.  I was busy seeing old friends and giving lectures.  I hoped my trip would be a respite from the anxiety and dismay that have plagued me since

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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: March 14, 2019 (5 items)

StandWithUs comes to aid of Kingsborough’s Michael Goldstein StandWithUs is alarmed to learn of a systematic, year-long anti-Semitic campaign against Michael Goldstein, an administrator and adjunct professor at Kingsborough Community College (“Kingsborough” or the “College”), part of the City University of New York (CUNY) school system. Goldstein has been the target of widespread harassment from

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International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israelis musicians First, Laskin perform at Beth El

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — It was encouraging to see two young Israeli artists performing so beautifully last Sunday evening in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El. Violinist Tal First, currently a student at the Juilliard School in New York and an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship recipient, opened the program with Bloch’s Nigun

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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Schloss tells her and Anne Frank’s Holocaust stories

By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Eva Schloss, 89, who has a powerful Holocaust survival story to tell about herself, knows that the world also hungers for details about her posthumous step-sister Anne Frank, the famous young girl diarist, whom she had known in Amsterdam before their respective families had gone into hiding from

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: March 8, 2019

Berrie and Seidle named to Leichtag Foundation board of directors Philanthropist Angelica Berrie, president of the Russell Berrie Foundation and a co-chair of the Jewish Funders Network, and Charlene Seidle, executive vice president of the Leichtag Foundation, have both been named to the board of directors of the Leichtag Foundation, it was announced by Jim

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