Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim for democracy, to speak Dec. 7

SAN DIEGO (Press release) —  StandWithUs – San Diego will hold its annual “Festival of Lights” celebration on Sunday, December 7, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.  Dr. Bob and Mao Shillman sponsor the gala and M. Zuhdi Jasser is the keynote speaker.  Program begins at  5:30 pm with an appetizer & wine reception followed by program and dinner at 6:30pm.  […]

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

JFS, Jacobs & Cushman Food Bank plan T’giving run

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Jewish Family Service and the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank are teaming up for the 13th annual Thanksgiving Day Run for the Hungry sponsored by Westfield Horton Plaza, JIMBO’S…Naturally and Skechers Performance Division. The 10K/5K (6.2 mile/3.1 mile) run/walk takes place on Thursday, Nov. 27 at Broadway Circle, in

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, The World We Share

Feinstein contrasts fatalism with Judaism

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – Rabbi Ed Feinstein, in the closing talk Nov. 16 of  the San Diego Jewish Book Fair, contrasted the Mesopotamian outlook on life with the “chutzpah” that Judaism teaches. Author of The Chutzpah Imperative, Feinstein differentiated “chutzpah” from the popular definition meaning “colossal nerve,” suggesting that in reality

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Donald H. Harrison

Survey analyzes sources of French anti- Semitism

PARIS (Press Release) – Three distinct groups in France are noticeably more anti-Jewish than the overall population, according to two new public opinion surveys on French anti-Semitism. The groups are supporters of the National Front party (extreme right), to a lesser extent supporters of the Left Front coalition (extreme left), and members of the Muslim community.

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International

Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Brazilian gangs

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The prominent Brazilian newspaper, O Globo reported recently that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group has links with Brazil’s largest criminal gang, First Capital Command (PCC). According to the O Globo report on November 9, the Brazilian government has tried to minimize the issue of Hezbollah activity in the region.

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International, Middle East

Humoring the Headlines: November 16, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Congressional Republicans are outraged that President Obama plans to issue Executive Orders liberalizing immigration policy during the lame duck period between the elections and the inauguration of the next House and Senate.  Obama justifies his actions as an appropriate response to the last two years of a dead duck Congress.

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

The Ivory Tower’s attempt to Nazify Jews

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON– “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken

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Jewish History, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts

Malashock/ RAW5 a biography of motion

By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO–John Malashock makes intensely emotional dances, and his latest show, “Malashock/RAW5,” at the Lyceum Theatre last weekend, displayed a vibrant palette of feeling-tones. Opening with the menace of  “Departure of the Youngsters,” the mood shifted to the tense, visceral “Uneasy Surrender.” The final “Party of One” began wistfully, but toward the

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