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Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 14, 2018 (4 items)

American Jewish Committee seeks nationwide effort to combat hate crimes The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling for a concerted government effort to combat hate crimes. The call to action comes after the FBI issued its latest annual report, which showed a 17 percent increase in hate crimes during 2017, compared to the year before. […]

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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Fires at home, rockets in Israel stir Jewish Federation

(Please hover with your cursor to find links) By Michael Jeser and Brian Tauber SAN DIEGO — The past week has been a difficult one up and down our State. Communities in Northern and Southern California are literally burning and need our help. Three major fires have devastated entire communities, leaving people displaced and homeless. Our

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Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Book details the battles over Nazi-looted art

A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (2017) by Nicholas M. O’Donnell By Herbert I. Lazerow SAN DIEGO — This is a terrific book that everyone should read. Nicholas O’Donnell’s book begins by describing as the paradigm case Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie, sold by the German

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 11, 2018 (6 items)

Non-Israelis may sue in Israeli court those who harm them because they are Jews  Judge Moshe Drori has ruled in Jerusalem Court that non-Israelis who are harmed because they are Jewish have the standing to sue their attackers in Israeli courts.  The ruling came in a case brought by the Shurat HaDin Law Center on

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Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Variety of form, materials in SDMA outdoor sculptures

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In some cases, sculptures are grouped to tell a story, but at other times their storytelling groupings are accidental.  You’ll find both sets of circumstances outside the San Diego Museum of Art. For example, two Jewish artists who immigrated to the United States from the Czarist Russian Empire have

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

Court upholds Hillel’s right to build at UC San Diego

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor ruled in favor of the City of San Diego and Hillel of San Diego, upholding Hillel’s right to build the Beverly and Joseph Glickman Hillel Center across La Jolla Village Drive from UC San Diego. This legal victory is a crucial step forward in Hillel’s effort

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Races for Congress highlight S.D. election results

  Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Even before San Diego’s polls closed, the national news media was reporting that Democrats had captured the House of Representatives, while Republicans had retained the U.S. Senate. The Democrats needed a net gain of 23 seats to win control of the

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA

Christina de Jesus is a Jewish song leader

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — On the third Friday evening of each month, the Shir Chadash (New Song) Band leads services celebrating Shabbat at Tifereth Israel Synagogue.  The young mother whose alto voice provides the harmonies to the Shabbat melodies is an example of religious mobility.  Just hearing that her name is “Christina

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Clergy, officials turn out for vigil at Beth Shalom

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — On Thursday night, Nov. 1, almost 140 gathered at Temple Beth Shalom to participate in a special ecumenical memorial service for those murdered in last week’s Shabbat service at the Tree of Life Synagogue, located in the Squirrel Hill Jewish area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 31, 2018 (7 items)

San Diego County Rabbis denounce Duncan Hunter’s attacks on Ammar Campa-Najjar A group of 17 active and retired rabbis in San Diego County, affiliated with the Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Conservative branches of Judaism have issued the following statement: “As rabbis and leaders of the Jewish community in the San Diego area, we are

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

Continued public focus on Pittsburgh massacre

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –If you missed Monday night’s community vigil at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, you’ll have another chance to attend an interfaith gathering  memorializing the 11 Jews slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and honoring the four law enforcement officials also shot by the white supremacist gunman. Temple Beth

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Jewish History, San Diego County, USA