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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Michael Drake, the Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, for enabling an anti-Semitic/anti-Israel atmosphere on his campus over a period of years, which culminated yesterday evening in the repeated disruption of a campus lecture delivered by Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael […]

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. – Ecclesiastes 9:7. By Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO–Life is full of coincidences. Just this past Shabbat, I was chatting during the oneg with a fellow congregant about the wine tour he had taken

JOPHANNESBURG, South Africa (WJC)–Harry Schwarz, a South African lawyer, politician and Jewish leader who defended Nelson Mandela during the apartheid regime, has died at the age of 86. Schwarz was born in Germany in 1924. In 1936, he escaped the Nazis and emigrated to South Africa. He served as a navigator in the South African

MOSCOW (Press Release)–Khaled Meshaal, the exiled political leader of Islamist group Hamas, has met for talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. “We met to pursue our discussions, and our principal goal is to build on efforts brokered by Egypt to secure Palestinian unity,” Lavrov told reporters at the start of the meeting. 

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced Monday that a San Diego man has been sentenced to eight months in state prison for pointing a laser at a San Diego Police Department helicopter known as ABLE (Airborne Law Enforcement). Timothy Allen, 39, pleaded guilty to the charge in January and was sentenced in

CAIRO (WJC)–Two senior Egyptian journalists have been reprimanded by Egypt’s Journalists Union for violating the group’s ban on contacts with Israeli officials. Hussein Serag, a veteran reporter, was suspended from his job for three months for visiting Israel, and Hala Mustafa received a warning after she conducted an interview with Israel’s ambassador in Cairo, Shalom

SAN DIEGO–“Remember the Shabbos day and keep it holy.” The Chofetz Chaim writes that Shabbos is a sign for the Jewish people. When a store has a sign out front, you know it’s in business. When we have Shabbos, we are ‘in business.’   Faithful observance of Shabbos is part of what makes our people eternal,

 Following is an interview with Nicole Opper about her film Off and Running, to be shown at The San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s Joyce Forum –A Day of Emerging Filmmakers By Yvonne Greenberg  LA JOLLA, California–Nicole Opper, selected as one of  the top 25 independent filmmakers to watch in the United States by Filmmaker Magazine,

CARDIFF BY THE SEA, California (Press Release)– Temple Solel will host its annual Purim Carnival on Sunday, February 28 from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The carnival—which raises funds for religious school and Hebrew students on financial assistance—will showcase a Pony Hop, inflatables, and a 9-Hole Mini Golf Course. With over 15 other exciting activities, games, and cakewalks,

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am, a Conservative Jewish synagogue located in Carmel Valley, has announced a new pre-school-friendly Kabbalat Shabbat service taking place on the fourth Friday of every month at 5:45 PM. Free-of-charge and open to all in the community, the service will last approximately a half-hour and rely heavily on music, storytelling, dancing

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–A festive Purim Carnival will be held at Congregation Beth Am on Sunday, February 28, 2010 from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.  The Jewish Learning Center is hosting this family event at the synagogue at 5050 Del Mar Heights Road, in Carmel Valley. Come in costume and join in the celebration! Costumes

By Dana Greene LA JOLLA, California—Breaking Upwards is an engaging romantic comedy about a twenty-something New York couple, living in the West Village, who after four years into their couplehood, decide their relationship is at a dead end.  Unfortunately,  they have difficulty being apart.  This semi-autographical film is based on the actual  lives of director/actor

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–If you follow the National Football League and the San Diego Chargers, you were as disappointed as I was in their shabby performance in the playoffs two weeks ago. The “Kings of Choke” did it again, failing to perform at their best when faced with additional pressure and scrutiny. Personally, I

By Gail Feinstein Forman LA JOLLA,  California–The Jazz Baroness presents a memorable portrait of a black sheep of the Jewish Rothschild family, Pannonica de Koenigswater Rothschild. Brought up in the world of British wealth and privilege and married to a handsome baron, she was used to high society life. But it was her sojourn into