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Citation honors U.S. volunteers in Israel’s 1948 war

By Jerry Klinger WEST POINT, New York — After 70 years, and considerable effort by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, the volunteer veterans of Israel’s War of Independence were finally, officially, thanked by the State of Israel. A citation was presented by Major General Michael Edelstein, Israel Defense Attache to the U.S., in […]

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Seeking names of Jewish officials, past and present

This article will be updated with additional names as they become available By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In Sunday’s edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune, reporter Peter Rowe wrote an overview story about San Diego’s Jewish community entitled “Jewish San Diego: Unique Odyssey.”  The subhead of the article was “Pain, promise over a history of

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

Beth El dedicates ‘Tree of Life’ mural for Yom HaShoah

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Congregation Beth El dedicated a 30 by 9 foot mural of a Tree of Life on Thursday, May 2, that incorporates, among other elements,  ceramic butterflies symbolizing children who were murdered in the Holocaust. The outdoor Yom HaShoah ceremony led by the congregation’s former president Sonia Ancoli

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Book Review: ‘Asylum’

Asylum by Moriz Scheyer (Translated by P.N. Singer);  Little, Brown and Company, 2016 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Written at the time of the actual events, this powerful book starts by describing the atmosphere in Vienna before the Anschluss by Nazi Germany, followed by the author’s flight, together with his wife and non-Jewish housekeeper, who

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

What MLK would say about the Poway Chabad shooting

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of my congregants posed an interesting question we ought to consider asking: What would Rev Martin Luther King Jr. have said about the Poway synagogue shooting? It is an important question—not just for members of the Jewish community, but also for the African-American community. Throughout

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Local Chabad rabbis to attend National Prayer Fete

By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — I just returned from an evening spent with my colleague, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Although wounded on Saturday, he was up late fielding phone calls, making plans, and sitting with some old colleagues (one of whom is me). Rabbi Goldstein stared death in the face; the rifle of the

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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi