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Grossmont College’s Arab students, instructors hold forum on volatile Middle East

By William Dudley EL CAJON, California — The ouster of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and other dramatic recent events in surrounding nations have raised much interest (and some worries) among Americans. Responding to such interest, the Arabic Club at Grossmont College here sponsored “The Arab World Today,” a forum held on campus on March 7. […]

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Libyan scandal at the London School of Economics

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Brendan O’Neill, the editor of Spiked Online, whom I’ve come to quote lately, has written: “Emptied of its nationalist vigour and militancy, the Palestine problem, it seems, is now of little immediate interest to protesting Arabs and is instead the ultimate cause célèbre for Western liberal campaigners who like nothing

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Rabbi challenges Uganda election result; alleges fraud and intimidation

KAMPALA, Uganda (Press Release)–At the behest of his Jewish, Muslim and Christian supporters, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, a native of Uganda, is peacefully challenging the official results in the election to national parliament. The frontrunner leading up to the election, Rabbi Sizomu lost in the official count to the opponent Yahaya Gudoi the candidate from the

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Wikileaks founder complains his Jewish financial support drying up

LONDON (WJC)–The founder of the controversial internet platform ‘WikiLeaks’, Julian Assange, has accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, to deprive him of funds by Jewish donors. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made to the magazine’s editor two

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Jewish peoplehood, not religion, should be basis for right of return

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Is Jewish identity primarily national or religious? Though Judaism is, indeed, a combination of both (Jewish civilization, as Mordechai Kaplan called it), Zionism has put nationalism before religion. Being a Jew in Israel is much more being a member of the Jewish people than of the Jewish faith. The so-called conversion

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Rabbi Martin S. Lawson to retire from Temple Emanu-El in 2012

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Rabbi Martin S. Lawson has announced his plans to retire as spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El on June 30, 2012.  “Although we are sad to see Rabbi Lawson leave in sixteen months, we will have been blessed with his spiritual leadership for 36 years,” said the congregation’s president Aaron Cohn.  A

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Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School names Cohen as principal

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Soille Hebrew Day School has announced that this summer  Rabbi Meir Cohen will join its  administrative team as the school’s Principal.  “He is a brilliant, warm educator who is passionate about improving the lives of students, both academically and personally,” according to Rabbi Simcha Weiser, the headmaster. “Rabbi Cohen has succeeded in

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A letter to teens

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The years have turned over and suddenly you are fifteen and eighteen years old—a young man with a 4G phone and a young woman with a car.  You have never known anything but wireless and mobility. You are living in interesting times, dear children. You have seen our

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