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Book review: ‘Memories, Miracles & Meaning’

Memories, Miracles & Meaning: Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by Fanny Krasner Lebovits (with Selwyn Isakow and Sid Shapira); Mascot Books (c) 2019; ISBN 9781643-071909; 199 pages plus family tree, photos and glossary; $22.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At 96, Fanny Krasner Lebovits is still going strong.  I saw her as recently […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Battling anti- Israel bias in high schools

By Charles Jacobs BOSTON — The well-known hostility to supporters of Israel on campus is rapidly expanding into American high school classrooms where anti-Israel and anti-Western “lessons” often morph toward the anti-Semitic. There are increasing reports of Jewish students being silenced, intimidated, or bullied in high schools, which are becoming gateways to campus Jew-hatred. In

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 12, 2018 (2 items)

Coalition seeks pledge against Israel boycotts from university leaders In response to recent attempts by faculty to implement an academic boycott of Israel on campus and thwart student rights in the name of politics, thousands of parents, students, faculty, rabbis, educators and stakeholders have called on university leaders to sign the “University Leaders Statement Against the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Stand With Us extols Muslim reformer, Christian director

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – – The spotlight of the pro-Israel organization, StandWithUs, shone brightly Tuesday night, Dec. 11, on a Muslim reformer and a Christian evangelist.  Both Shireen Qudosi, a national correspondent for the Clarion Project, and Sara Miller, the outgoing San Diego regional director of the StandWithUs organization, personify the

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 11, 2018 (7 items)

House of Representatives adopts measure punishing use of human shields in combat The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has commended the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Sanctioning the Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act (H.R. 3342). This critical and timely legislation mandates new sanctions against Hamas, Hezbollah and foreign state agencies

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Tim Shaw exhibit contrasts with peaceful Balboa Park

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree… By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem could well apply to San Diego’s stately Balboa Park, with its landscaped grounds, and 17 museums dedicated to different subjects, as well as centers for music, theater, recreational activities, and of course

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

The Jewish stories behind ‘Miracle on 34th Street’

By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every year, about this time of year, Christmas themed movies are flooding T.V. screens across the country. Ranked #9 out of 100 by the American Film Institute greatest films of all times is the 1947 beloved holiday comedy classic, Miracle on 34th Street. It is a warm feeling

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 10, 2018 (3 items)

AJC Urges EU Nations to Act on Dismaying New Anti-Semitism Report The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, is urging concerted initiatives by European governments to confront rising anti-Semitism, following the release of deeply troubling findings from an EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) survey of Jews across Europe. The survey results were announced Monday in Brussels by European Union

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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USA

March of Light concludes with chanukiah lighting

Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Undeterred by last month’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, or by more recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Poway, more than 100 Jews and Christians joined in a March of Light late Sunday afternoon, Dec. 9,  from Ashley Falls Park

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 9, 2018 (3 items)

San Diegan finds hate message in a library book Adira Rosen, a San Diegan now attending Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the subject of local television news reports when she found swastikas and hate messages drawn onto the pages of a library book only a month after the massacre at the Tree of Life

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 7, 2018 (3 items)

World Jewish Congress hails EU’s declaration on anti-Semitism The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday welcomed the adoption of a declaration by the Council of the European Union on the fight against antisemitism and the development of a common security approach to protect Jewish communities and institutions in Europe. The declaration, agreed by ministers of

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA