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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Rabbi Shai Cherry, Ph.D., has been engaged as the new Director of the Abraham Ratner Torah School at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Rabbi Cherry, or Rav Shai as he likes to be called, holds a doctorate in Jewish Thought and Theology from Brandeis University and was subsequently ordained as a Conservative Rabbi

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–The Torah instructs us to find judges that are of flawless sterling character.  One great trait is humility, gained as a result of compassionate human insight, as the following true story, told by Dr. Isaac Steven Herschkopf, an attending psychiatrist at the NYU Medical Center, illustrates: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release)— George Salton is a Holocaust survivor who was born in the small town of Tyczyn, Poland. He was about to enter the 6th grade in September 1939 when the Nazis occupied Poland. His name was Lucjan Salzman(n). His family was forced into the Rzeszow Ghetto, and his parents, Anna

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday expressed deep concern about recent anti-Semitic incidents in Chile targeting Jewish community leaders and institutions, and called on the country’s officials to publicly condemn such acts. In recent weeks, vandals have desecrated cemeteries and spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti on synagogues and Jewish schools in three cities, including the

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – An Article of Hope, the first film for the 21st Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, will be screened on August 29 at 7:15 p.m. at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC, Jacobs Family Campus.   Sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, the featured speaker following the

WASHINGTON, D.C (WJC)–US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington is backing Argentina in its call for Iran to extradite the suspects in 1994 AMIA bombing. “Argentina and the United States cooperate closely in the fight against terrorism,” Clinton said at a joint press conference with Argentine FM Héctor Timerman. “Argentina, of course, has been a

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a statement from the U.S. State Department: The United States is deeply concerned that Iran continues to deny its citizens their civil rights and intimidate and detain those Iranians who seek to hold their government accountable and stand up for the rights of their fellow citizens. We remain troubled by the

-Reprinted from Summer 2010 issue of inFocus Quarterly– On May 27, inFOCUS editor Matthew RJ Brodsky interviewed Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from 2005-2009. As secretary he developed and implemented border security policy, homeland security regulations, and a national cyber security strategy. He also served periodically on the National Security

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Calling it a “virtual cesspool of anti-Semitism,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned an Iranian Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial and called on the United States to publicly denounce the Iranian regime’s blatant anti-Semitism. The “HoloCartoon” Web site purports to offer a historical narrative of events occurring before, during and

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Last Friday the US Senate and on Monday, July 26th US Congress unanimously approved “Spirit of ’45 Day” a new National Day of Remembrance to recall the victory celebrations at the end of WWII. This year “Spirit of ’45 Day” coincides with the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan or VJ Day

MUNICH (WJC)–A 93-year-old man living in southern Germany could be charged with participating in the murder of Jewish prisoners in the Nazi slave labor camp Treblinka I during World War II. According to the news magazine ‘Der Spiegel’, prosecutors in Munich are to decide soon whether to bring charges against a man identified as Alex