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 SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet Refusenik who now serves as chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, will headline a community-wide celebration of Jewish Federation’s 75th anniversary of service to the commmunity. Sharansky will be featured during a free event from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, October 28, at […]

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — “We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by [Israel’s former Chief] Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. These remarks are not only deeply offensive, but incitement such as this hurts the cause of peace.” – State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley.   After years of officially sanctioned Palestinian anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a transcript of a briefing by U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell on the new Middle East peace talks between Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: MR. PHILIP CROWLEY: Good afternoon and welcome to the Department of State in Washington, D.C. Today, we have successfully re-launched direct negotiations between

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Will they or won’t they? Who is “they?” There are several possibilities. The couple killed last night were well embedded in the religious settler community. Six kids, another one on the way, and related to one of the leading activists in the settler movement. While the crazies are trying to find olive

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is a transcript of comments made on Tuesday, August 31, by Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State prior to their formal meeting together in advance of the new Mideast Peace Talks: PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: We witnessed today a savage murder of four innocent Israelis. There are seven new

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — Since last Friday, when I wrote Why I Just Disinherited My Alma Mater,  the post has had “legs” about what I and others say is politicized indoctrination as official college policy. Brooklyn College requires incoming freshmen and transfer students to read an absurdly slanted book that Arab-Americans are routinely

Editor, San Diego Jewish World I recently asked for your readers’ help in locating a high school classmate of mine, Laurie Phyllis Wohl, who lived in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego and graduated Hoover High School in 1960.  I know her mother was active in Temple Beth Israel. I found Laurie!  I asked the Wellesley

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The White House released the following transcript of a news briefing Tuesday by Special Envoy George Mitchell on the upcoming Middle East Peace process: SENATOR MITCHELL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.        Last week Secretary of State Clinton invited President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington on September

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a traditional period of reflection. But that ritual is often lost in the flurry of today’s fast-paced 21st Century world. Now, 10Q, a national project that asks people to answer a question a day online for 10 days during the High

By Cynthia Citron CULVER CITY, California–Ever since I saw him play the title role in More Lies About Jerzy I have been a confirmed Jack Stehlin groupie.  I’d go to see him in anything.  But in the case of John Farmanesh-Bocca’s new play, Titus Redux, that’s a little more arduous than it might seem. A

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley on Sunday issued a statement condemning remarks by former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef that , in essence, called upon God to strike down the Palestinian leadership. “We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,” Crowley’s statement said.  “We note the Israeli statement that the

BERKELEY (Press Release) — The Judah L. Magnes Museum, one of the world’s preeminent collections of Jewish life, culture and history, has a new home at the University of California, Berkeley. The 10,000-piece collection of precious music, art, rare books and historical archives – part of the Magnes Museum since its founding in 1961 – was