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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — In this digital age, many seniors find computer use to be an important source of medical information, financial information, entertainment, and connection/interaction with loved ones.  “While many older adults are comfortable using computers, others are not, often finding computer technology to be intimidating,” said Sherry Fusco, Director of Older Adult […]

ANKARA (WJC)–Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron  has indirectly attacked Israel by saying that Gaza was currently like a “prison camp.” During a visit to Turkey, he also harshly criticized Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which nine Turkish activists were killed at the end of May. Addressing reporters in Ankara, he said: “The

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Guardians of San Diego hosted its 19th Annual Golf & Tennis Tournament July 19 at the exclusive, championship course at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, while tennis players competed in round robin play also at the beautiful Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club. The event was a tremendous success with all proceeds directly

MALMO, Sweden (WJC)–A firecracker has exploded on the steps of the synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, a day after a bomb threat was taped to the building. The explosion happened in the early hours of Friday. A bomb threat written on paper had reportedly been taped to the synagogue on the previous evening.

 SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – A fundraiser to benefit the William B. Kolender Sheriff’s Museum in Old Town San Diego will be held Thursday evening, Sept. 23, at the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park with regular tickets at $95 per person, and premium tickets going for up to $5,000 per person. Magic will

WOLFISHEIM, France (WJC)–More than two dozen graves were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery in Wolfisheim, in the eastern French region of Alsace. It was the second incident of its type in the area this year, authorities said. Twenty-seven graves, including those of children, were damaged and many headstones overturned and covered in profanities. The incident

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–Earlier this month we celebrated our Independence Day. My thoughts brought me to the importance of American music, and the shameful neglect we have allowed music education to be. Part of this was stimulated by an article in the editorial section of the San Diego Union-Tribune by John M. Eger, on

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Saying it would “trample on the memory” of World War II labor and concentration camp victims, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned a march, planned for July 31 in Vaivara, Estonia, to honor an Estonian division of the Nazi SS that fought in a 1944 battle against Soviet troops.  Abraham H.

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–A festival celebrating  writer and humorist Mark Twain and such other 19th century writers as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edgar Allan Poe has been scheduled 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, August 21, at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.  Games, Punch n’ Judy puppet