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An inclusion award for Michael Phelps

BOSTON, Massachusetts (Press Release) — The Ruderman Family Foundation, an international leader in disability inclusion, presented its Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion to Michael Phelps at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 21, at the Four Seasons in Boston. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was honored with the award in recognition of […]

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Book Review: ‘Mensch-Marks’

Mensch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi by Joshua Hammerman; © 2018 Helth Communications, Inc.; ISBN 9780757-321771; 250 pages plus appendix,  $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Joshua Hammerman is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Connecticut, as well as a journalist whose column appeared regularly in the Jewish

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Jews in the News: February 24, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The Associated Press was credited with three stories involving Jews in Sunday’s San Diego Union Tribune.  In one, Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had an impromptu debate with students who demanded that she support the Green New Deal, which she responded would never receive enough votes

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Jews in the News ~ February 23, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL  – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin accompanied by fellow Democratic Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Juan Vargas and Scott Peters visited the San Diego-Tijuana border, with Levin telling the San Diego Union-Tribune,  “I see no crisis other than the crisis the president is manufacturing.”  Meanwhile The New York Times reported that U.S.

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Jews in the News ~ February 22, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Her patience sorely tested, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned President Trump’s former campaign aide Roger Stone that he will get no more chances if he violates a court order to remain mum about his upcoming trial in which he is accused of lying to Congress regarding

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Jews in the News ~ February 19, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL– President Donald Trump, echoing comments by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein engaged in “illegal and treasonous activity” when, according to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, he questioned whether there would be enough Cabinet officers willing to remove President Trump

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Jews in the News: February 13, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families.   According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s

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Jews in the News ~ February 12, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Nita Lowey and Richard Shelby, chairs respectively of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, along with members of their committees, hammered out a tentative deal to avoid a second government shut down in the face of President Trump’s demand for a wall at the Mexican border.  According to a

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Jews in the News: February 10, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently beaten back cancer, but at age 85, she’s the oldest Justice on the Supreme Court.  Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru reports that just in case she leaves the court, President Trump has a short list of seven candidates from which to pick her replacement. 

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Jews in the News: February 8, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Singer, president and executive vice president respectively of the World Jewish Congress, told a European Parliament committee on Thursday “to pick after Jews or go after Jews is not just wrong — it is dangerous for all Europeans. … Anti-Semitism eventually consumes everyone

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Jews in the News: February 6, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This following column, with a format that is easier to read in a hurry, replaces the Editor’s E-Mail Box.  It allows for recognition of members of our community in the diverse roles they play.  If you, or a member of the Jewish community whom you know  recently did

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Super Bowl Sunday: Great day for something else

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Super Bowl Sunday has been called “the Secular American Holiday.” It’s a day when so many people gather together to watch the same program that municipalities prepare for multitudes of simultaneously flushing toilets. And not watching the Super Bowl is considered “un-American,” practically treasonous, tantamount to joining the

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