WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Lois Lerner, who has been the subject of an investigation and considerable editorial comment as the person in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who was responsible for deciding whether organizations deserved tax-exempt status, was defended by Congressman Sandy Levin (D-Michigan), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, against […]
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USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World‘s movie reviewer and humor columnist, Lawrence Baron, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University, will deliver three summer lectures on Jewish movies at Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capril Drive, with the first coming at 7 p.m. tonight (Saturday, June 21), and the others scheduled on
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– There is no doubt that Israel’s best friend is America. Without American support in the United Nations Security Council, binding resolutions against Israel would be much easier to pass. Without American aid, Israel’s military strength would be diminished. Without the backing of American citizens and America-based businesses, perhaps Israel
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) issued the following statement Friday, praising the House vote on Thursday night to to ban backdoor email searches: “Last night the House of Representatives took a big step forward for Americans’ privacy rights by voting to prohibit intelligence agencies from deliberately reading Americans’ emails and
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USABURLINGTON, Vermont (Press Release)– Vermont Christian and Jewish leaders joined U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Friday, June 20, to address the moral implications of extreme wealth and income inequality. Bishop Thomas Ely, the Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak, Monsignor Roland Rivard and Rabbi Joshua Chasan joined Sanders to emphasize that increasing wealth and income inequality
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) applauded a report released Friday, June 20, by the Department of Justice that calls for passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to fully repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. The report details the ongoing implementation of United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court decision
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Friday, June 20, praised the Obama Administration for creating a Pollinator Health Task Force to develop a federal strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators. The new interagency task force will help address troubling pollinator declines in California,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) on Friday, June 20, released the following statement on the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank: “I strongly condemn the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, one of whom is also an American citizen, and support Israel’s ongoing efforts to return these boys
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Middle East, USADETROIT (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee called Friday’s Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) decision to divest from major companies doing business with Israel a setback for efforts to attain a negotiated, sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and a breach with a Jewish community committed to Jewish-Christian relations. By a vote of 310 to 303, the PCUSA General
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Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website In a front page story about the U.S. sending advisors to Iraq, the AP quotes Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) as warning against “mission creep” that might end up in another land war in the Middle East. “We have
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By Bob Jacob/Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Cavaliers looked near and far during a five-week stretch for a head coach and they finally found their man – in Israel. David Blatt, who coached Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague and Israeli league basketball championships this year, struck a deal to become the
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Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If there is a New Middle East on the horizon, it does not look anything like that which Barack Obama envisioned in his Nobel-winning Cairo speech of 2009. Beyond the lives of three boys and whatever develops between Israel and the Palestinians as a result, the bigger noise in the
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–At least eight Orthodox Jewish institutions, joined by the Jewish Federation of San Diego, are sponsoring a community tefillah rally to “bring back our boys” at 11 a.m., Sunday, June 22, at Southern California Yeshiva (SCY) High School, 3410 Mt. Acadia Blvd., in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego. Expected to last
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Several years ago on a trip from Los Angeles to San Diego, I tuned into a late night radio talk show hosted by Michael Savage. His opinions and callers (IMO) were outrageous. One call particularly caught my attention. The caller said: “I believe in President George Bush.” Savage
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