By Joey Seymour SAN DIEGO–It’s been six months since the passing of Robert Breitbard, founder of the San Diego Hall of Champions. Today, as you tour the museum he worked so hard to create, there is nothing more than outdated exhibits, empty walls, and a solitary bass fish. The operators of the expansive complex are […]
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By Shoshana Bryen NEW YORK — JINSA New York Cabinet Members and Long Island Cabinet Members heard a remarkable presentation from a retired four-star Marine general this week. Rather than just providing an update from the field – Iraq and Afghanistan, with a look at Iran and Israel – Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC (ret.) asked
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Israeli chess master Alik Gershon, who immigrated to Israel as a boy form Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, broke the Guinness world record in simultaneous chess games Friday (Oct. 22) in Tel Aviv. The Jewish Agency for Israel sponsored the event, in tribute to the contribution of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC)–The headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York has announced plans for rebuilding Nariman House in Mumbai, nearly two years after it was attacked by Islamist terrorists. The organization said that the top floor of the refurbished Jewish center in the Indian city would be turned into a memorial dedicated to Rabbi
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Travel and FoodMUMBAI (WJC)–Twenty-one people were involved in plotting the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, including four serving officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and three former officers of the Pakistani Army, the suspected terrorist David Headley has reportedly told Indian investigators in June 2010. Headley, who was born Daood Sayed
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Travel and FoodPORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (WJC)–A new law passed by authorities in this southern Brazilian city will require all public schools to include Holocaust education in their curriculum. The measure will affect an estimated 60,000 students at 96 schools. Porto Alegre recent suffered a series of neo-Nazi incidents. The new law is the first of its kind
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO–Here is another chapter in which I share with you more of my favorite quotes from the world of music. Some are funny, some are serious; others run the gamut from outrageous and stupid to insightful and prophetic. All of them, though, give us a bit more of a perspective into
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By Cynthia Citron BURBANK–Stephanie Zimbalist met Katharine Hepburn only once, when the legendary actress came backstage to tell Zimbalist and the other members of the cast of Baby Dance, “You are all so good!! And I thought I was the only one!” Despite the left-handed compliment, Hepburn has continued to have a major impact on
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HAIFA (Press Release)–Businessman and Colombian Ambassador to Israel Isaac Gilinski was present at the launching of a unique “Colombia Bicentennial” exhibition at the University of Haifa, and followed the event with a lecture for students of the University’s Graduate School of Management. Mr. Gilinski is the owners of the Gilinski Group, managing a number of
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair presents four approaches to Jewish humor with movie producer and writer Sam Hoffman on Fri., Nov. 5 at noon; satirist Gary Shteyngart exchanging witty repartee with Mark Oppenheimer on Sat., Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.; and a side-splitting evening of stand-up
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–More than 20,000 artworks stolen by the Nazis from Jews can now be searched in an online catalog. A new online database lets Holocaust survivors and their relatives search details of the artifacts looted during World War II in Nazi-occupied France and Belgium. The database is a joint project of the Conference of
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Travel and FoodMELBOURNE (WJC)–Several Australian labor unions have endorsed the international campaign to boycott Israeli goods from the West Bank and are campaigning to get a boycott adopted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the umbrella body. The Electrical Trades Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, the Queensland branch
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA –Ed Miliband could become the second Jewish-born prime minister of Britain any time in the next few years through either parliamentary elections or earlier, with the possible collapse of the current governing coalition. Unlike Benjamin Disraeli, Miliband can openly practice Judaism if he chooses. Actually, the 40-year-old Miliband chose to
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL, the national airline of Israel, and “Bears from Bergenfield” have reached a milestone in its effort to send 100,000 teddy bears to Israel as part of a six-year-long charity project. Upon arrival in Israel, the 100,000 soft and cuddly teddy bears have been delivered to sick children in hospitals
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