JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel and The Jewish Federations of North America will provide immediate emergency assistance to 60 families in Mevo Modi’im and Kibbutz Harel whose homes were destroyed by the devastating wildfires that burned through Israel on Thursday. This support from The Jewish Agency comes from a special funds […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This week’s Torah portion, BeHar, discusses the sabbatical year. It teaches us that for “Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof. But the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the
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Jewish ReligionBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Memorial Day is to remember those who “gave their last full measure of devotion” to our country and our cause. Brave men and women fought and died from Bunker Hill to New Orleans to Buena Vista to Shiloh and Cold Harbor to Chateau-Thierry to Cape Esperance and Kasserine
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –Waging a war against Iran, or even thinking of doing so, is sheer madness. Trump has thus far wisely rejected the warmonger National Security Adviser John Bolton’s outrageous advice. Waging another war in the Mideast, this time against Iran, would have not only disastrous consequences for the US but will
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy José A. Álvarez County of San Diego Communications Office SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego County Public Health officials are responding to an influenza outbreak among asylum seekers recently flown to San Diego from Texas by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We have identified individuals with flu symptoms and
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International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s distortions of the past and her dreadful hopes for the future can be bookended between the acts of two very different Britons: the revered General Bernard Law Montgomery and the reviled Jeremy Corbyn. Between Oct. 23 and Nov. 11, 1942, Montgomery stopped Rommel on
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By Lawrence Krause, PhD ENCINITAS, California — “What’s On Your Mind” is a discussion group that meets twice a month at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities. Its purpose is to let residents get to know each other better and also to promote critical thinking (average age of residents in independent living is eighty-nine). Rather than just
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – You set up a donor advised fund at the Jewish Community Foundation, find a worthy charitable project, recommend to the foundation that it grant money from your fund to that project, and then, poof, is the donated money then gone, its one-time purpose achieved? It doesn’t have to
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SAN DIEGO — The license plate belongs to a mother who lives in San Diego. Following in the footsteps of license plate maven Melanie Rubin, San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison couldn’t resist photographing this one!
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By Navras J. Aafreedi From indiatimes.com KOLKATA, India — Estimated to be around five to ten thousand, Jews are the smallest religious minority in India classified under the category ‘Others’, representative of 0.7 per cent of the Indian population, in the census. They are so small in numbers that they do not even qualify to
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Lawrence Baron SAN DIEGO — Janet Brody Esser died early morning May 22 from cancer and injuries related to a recent auto accident. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she received her BA from the University of Iowa, MA in art history with an emphasis on anthropology and archeology from California State University, Long Beach,
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BOSTON, Massachusetts (Press Release) — The Ruderman Family Foundation, an international leader in disability inclusion, presented its Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion to Michael Phelps at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 21, at the Four Seasons in Boston. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was honored with the award in recognition of
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