Travel and Food

NEW YORK (Press Release)– With the Jewish New Year soon to arrive, EL AL, the national airline of Israel is preparing for this holiday season by offering traditional desserts which symbolize a sweet new year.  More than 550 pounds of honey cake is served to passengers travelling on EL AL from the USA in all

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Dynamic, energizing, stimulating, heimish and lots of fun – that’s how women have described their  weekend at camp — Camp Mountain Chai. The 4th Annual Women’s Weekend is coming up October 22, 23 and 24. The $225 fee includes a comfortable charter bus to the camp in an idyllic setting in

LONDON (WJC)–Nazi leader Adolf Hitler possibly had Jewish as well as African ancestors, according to a report by the British newspaper ‘Daily Express’, citing new DNA tests done in Belgium. Samples taken from Hitler’s relatives link him to both the Jewish community and people from northern Africa. Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders said he had investigated

OTTAWA (WJC)–The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) has criticized posthumous honors for the first female mayor of Ottawa because of her opposition to taking in Jewish refugees during World War II. CJC officials, writing in the ‘Ottawa Citizen’, charged that Charlotte Whitton, who served as mayor of Canada’s capital city from 1951 to 1956 and from 1960

KAUNUS, Lithuania (WJC)–Jewish organizations in Lithuania have strongly condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig’s head was left Saturday at the entrance of a synagogue in the city of Kaunas. “The Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Religious Community of Lithuanian Jews judge this as Nazi provocation aimed at insulting the ethnic and religious

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Chemotherapy, while an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immune system.  Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients ― getting straight to the source of the disease — has been invented by Dr. Dan Peer

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)–Jane Schaffer, a master teacher whose methodology for writing essays is taught in high schools around the country, died of brain cancer early Sunday morning at home.  She was 64. Schaffer, wife of San Diego Jewish World contributor and former San Diego Jewish Times columnist Dan Schaffer, had valiantly fought the cancer up until the

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–The grassroots group, San Diego Israel Coalition, has issued a call for shofar blowers to assemble at Congregation Beth El at 10 a.m., Tuesday, September 7–the day before Rosh Hashanah — to sound their support for “peace in Israel and around the world.” “The blowing of the Shofar at Rosh Hashanah

POWAY, California (Press release)–A Shabbat celebration for returning and new members of Ner Tamid Synagogue, 15318 Pomerado Road, at 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 27, will feature Rav Nadav Caine at the pulpit and singer Cara Friedman on the guitar. Following the “family-friendly” service, the Conservative congregation will serve ice cream, cookies, fruit and other desserts.

Editor’s Note: Wondering how you can atone for your sins on Yom Kippur?  Two comedians have devised alternate form letters that can be sent out right after Rosh Hashanah. By David Jelenko and Steve Hofstetter Dear [People on My Facebook Page/Friends], With [two days off of work/Rosh Hashanah] over, it’s time to look forward to Yom

By Jeanette Friedman NEW YORK — It seems that there isn’t a spin doctor, media pundit, columnist, politician or Jew who hasn’t offered an opinion about the Park51 Cordoba Community Center  under development two blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan. In 2009, when the proposal was put forth, there was little or no objection to what