By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Horowitz Freedom Center has identified several more universities where anti-Semitism is so rampant that pogroms have occurred there. When the story was checked out, it was discovered that student theatre ensembles on each of these campuses had been performing Fiddler on the Roof. * ISIS issued a threat against
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Bibi remains the leading choice to be prime minister, even though Likud has been losing ground. Buji is below Bibi in polls asking preferences for Prime Minister, but Labor/Zionist Union has moved one or two seats ahead. However, its obvious partners are still below the obvious partners of Likud. Washington
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SAN DIEGO (SDONA) –An SDSU alumnus and lecturer for the College of Business Administration has endowed the school’s Center for Leadership and Community Service. Jeffrey Glazer, Class of ’81, was joined by university and student representatives for a naming ceremony on Feb. 26 for the Jeffrey W. Glazer Center for Leadership and Service. “The more
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on Monday, March 2. “I plan on attending the speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu, but not without serious reservations. Speaker Boehner should never have extended the invitation in the manner that he
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York), the Committee’s Ranking Member, released a bipartisan letter they intend to soon send to President Obama underscoring the “grave and urgent issues that have arisen” relating to the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Raphael Lemkin is probably the most influential figure of the Twentieth Century not widely recognized by posterity. Born in 1900 in a Polish village located in the Russian Empire, he had witnessed pogroms when he was growing up. Originally studying linguistics, he eventually became a lawyer. In the 1920s
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Jewish History, Lawrence BaronBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — With friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen, it is not too surprising that Neil Simon turned out so many successful comic shows, including Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, The Return of Max Dugan and The Odd Couple. What is surprising is how his writing has
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A fight is brewing at Mt. San Jacinto College in Riverside County over a proposed speech on May 13 by Miko Peled, the anti-Israel activist whose late father, Matti Peled, was an Israeli general who became part of the peace camp. As first reported by The Israel Group,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on Monday, March 2, for passage of new legislation, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015 (S.551), that would give the Department of Justice authority to prevent a known or suspected terrorist from buying firearms or explosives. Schumer highlighted that
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded and thanked Star Parker and a group of prominent African America ministers who chastised the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) for its intended boycott of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress on March 3 During last Thursday’s National Press Club Event, organized by
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now called Monday, March 2, on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from using his speech to undermine diplomacy with Iran, further deepening the partisan rift on Capitol Hill, and causing further divisions among American Jews. Debra DeLee, the President and CEO of Americans for Peace
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— To compensate for erratic shifts and spikes in its neuronal communications, the brain relies on the stabilizing mechanism called “homeostasis” — the ability to maintain relatively stable equilibrium between different elements of its composition — to preserve overall network function. Disruptions in stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little
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Travel and FoodBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — At one point in his life, Leonard Nimoy scheduled a speaking tour, but a number of synagogues then canceled his scheduled appearances. What was their objection? A. Nimoy produced and starred in the movie Never Forget, based on the true story of Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor who confronted
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