San Diego County

ADL: Diverse free speech panel needed at SDSU

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Responding to concerns from community members regarding the placement of and response to posters alleging connections between specific SDSU students and terrorist groups, Tammy Gillies, Regional Director of ADL’s San Diego Regional office said, “The posters placed on SDSU’s campus two weeks ago which targeted individual students because of their affiliations […]

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

200+ hear Dumisani Washington praise Israel

By Nina Brodsky EL CAJON, California — Pastor Dumisani Washington, African American Baptist pastor, a gentle and fiery Israel advocate and orator spoke here  May 4 about “Zionism and Justice: Why Christians Need to Lead in Supporting Israel.” He delivered his case boldly and eloquently to more than 200 Christians and Jews at Skyline Church. Dumisani took

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Middle East, San Diego County, USA

SDJA dedicates May 5 to Holocaust education

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, San Diego Jewish Academy students will be spending Thursday, May 5th remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in

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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

American style fete to mark Israel independence

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Men’s Club and Sisterhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue plan to celebrate Israel’s 68th birthday with an ol’ fashioned American style barbecue at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12. Yup, kosher hamburger and hot dogs, plus vegetarian selections. Decorations and recreation, meanwhile, will be Israeli through and through. Israeli dancing will be

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

Butterflies, stones, candles help mourn Shoah victims

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor Masori LA JOLLA, California – The Six Million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with five million other people deemed undesirable by the Nazis, are so hard to conceptualize.  Artists and teachers have struggled to represent the Six Million in concrete terms; for example, Six Million tiny squares;

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

UCSD psychiatrist analyzes four Nazis May 12

LA JOLLA, California  (Press Release) –After World War II came to an end in 1945, the mass killing and sheer devastation wrought by the Nazis off the battlefield began to emerge in shocking detail. Some 11 million civilians—both Jews and non-Jews, including about 1.5 million children—were killed during the Holocaust. When the Allies convened the

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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

I-8 Jewish Travel: Klauber was a Lakeside legend

-54th in a series– Exit 22, Los Coches Road, Lakeside, California ~ Historic Lakeside By Donald H. Harrison LAKESIDE, California— Los Coches Road translates from Spanish to “The Cars Road” which makes one wonder if, perhaps, somewhere nearby there is “The Trucks Road” or “The Bicycles Road” or yet another road for some other form of

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food