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Industry leader says Jews should speak up about Iran

March 1, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is […]

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

AJC: Boteach owes Rice an apology

March 1, 2015

NEW YORK (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris on Sunday, March 1, issued the following statement regarding a full-page ad in the Feb. 28 edition of the New York Times, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, assailing U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice: “As AJC said in a tweet yesterday, this ad was ‘way

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Middle East, USA

From the Jewish Library: Island of hope, tears

March 1, 2015

Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island by David Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, Douglass Brownstone, (MetroBooks, 2004). By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–The word “immigrant” brings to mind a picture of a woman with a lined face, head covered by a babushka (scarf), holding a wide

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Jewish History, USA

Bibi speech just a blip in U.S.- Israel alliance

February 28, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Israeli media have reported recently on another secretly recorded conversation between Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, the wife of the prime minister, and the spouse of the former mayor of Sderot, the town that was hit by many of the Hamas rockets last year. The ex-mayor had apparently criticized the prime minister,

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu dominates election coverage

February 28, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For a political scientist committed to the view that democratic politics is the essence of civilization, an election campaign can be a difficult test. The one we are experiencing, like some others I’ve seen, brings out the worst in those aspiring to national leadership. It’s not like an academic seminar

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

The Jewish comedians: Jack Carter

February 28, 2015

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Travel and Food

Black & blue; gold & white, and HaShem’s hidden hand

February 28, 2015

By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California — Did you hear? What color is the dress? Black and blue or white and gold? I am still enamored by the stark difference. (Here’s a link to the phenomenon:https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-why-people-cant-agree-on-the-color-of-112191281639.html# ) How is possible? When I saw it recently, I said it’s black and blue. But some of my family

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Jewish Religion

Five actresses speak of life’s highs and lows at Lyceum

February 28, 2015

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO–When the Ephron sisters penned Love, Loss and What I Wore, they kept true to form. Though many of the lines produce audience laughter, there is an underlying thread of the many disappointments suffered through the fabric of the ages and stages of a woman’s life. Melinda Gilb has appeared on

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Travel and Food

AJC mourns Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

February 28, 2015

NEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, one of the most influential American Catholic leaders of our time, who died Feb. 26 at the age of 97. He distinguished himself as a renowned educator and spiritual leader, as a staunch defender of civil rights and

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

ADL condemns ad attacking Susan Rice

February 28, 2015

NEW YORK (Press Release)… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly criticized an ad in Saturday’s (Feb 28) New York Times calling National Security Advisor Susan Rice “blind” to genocide. The full page ad, placed by This World: The Values Network run by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, runs through a litany of personal attacks on Ambassador Rice’s character

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Middle East, USA

12 groups ask UCLA to address anti- Semitism

February 28, 2015

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – StandWithUs initiated the following letter to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in reaction to an incident in which a candidate for the UCLA Judicial Board was asked if being Jewish presented her with a conflict of interest. The questioners later apologized, but the 12 organizations below seek additional measures. February 20,

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The return to San Diego of Yoav Talmi

February 28, 2015

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Yoav Talmi, one of Israel’s foremost composers and conductors, will be speaking during services at Ohr Shalom Synagogue, 3rd and Laurel, in San Diego, next Friday evening, March 6, 7:30 p.m. His talk will be: “From the Diary of an International Israeli Conductor.” Talmi, former conductor of the San Diego

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar

Bibi makes trip to HaKotel in advance of U.S. speech

February 28, 2015

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on the eve of his departure for the United States where he will deliver a historical speech to Congress on Tuesday, March 3 at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) about the Iranian nuclear threat. “On the eve my

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Middle East, USA

The making of a Jihadist

February 28, 2015

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Be the first of your friends to like this. Pop quiz: How can the threat of radical jihadists be countered? • President Obama: “Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies. Those efforts

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Industry leader says Jews should speak up about Iran

AJC: Boteach owes Rice an apology

From the Jewish Library: Island of hope, tears

Bibi speech just a blip in U.S.- Israel alliance

Netanyahu dominates election coverage

The Jewish comedians: Jack Carter

Black & blue; gold & white, and HaShem’s hidden hand

Five actresses speak of life’s highs and lows at Lyceum

AJC mourns Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

ADL condemns ad attacking Susan Rice

12 groups ask UCLA to address anti- Semitism

The return to San Diego of Yoav Talmi

Bibi makes trip to HaKotel in advance of U.S. speech

The making of a Jihadist

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