San Diego rally for Israel July 20
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Travel and FoodJNS news briefs: July 11, 2014
Gaza rocket hits Ashdod gas station, man severely injured (JNS.org) A man with disabilities was severely injured and seven more people were lightly injured Friday morning when a rocket fired from Gaza hit an Ashdod gas station, starting a massive fire. An Israeli Air Force plane bombed the launch site from where the rocket was
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International, Middle EastPutin evaluates Mideast astutely
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — President Vladimir Putin is a tough but very effective leader. He is never afraid to take a stand and fight for the interests of his people. True, his methods can be heavy handed at times—if not downright ruthless. His support for Assad in his civil war
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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USAWJC backs San Diego family’s art claim against Spain
MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum should return the Impressionist masterpiece ‘Rue Saint-Honoré’ to the heirs of the Jewish family from whom it was stolen by the Nazis shortly before World War II, the president of the World Jewish Congress urged on Friday. The Madrid museum is owned by the Spanish state. “Since 1988, Spain
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAFrance considers a ban on Syria travel
BRUSSELS (WJC) — The World Jewish Congress on Friday, July 11, applauded a French plan to combat radicalization and terrorism and urged the adoption of a law before France’s Parliament banning travel to Syria and blocking access to jihadist websites. “Given the number of French citizens radicalized by their training on the Syrian battlefield, we
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International, Middle EastSouth Africa’s ANC likens Israel to Nazis
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WJC) –The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and the country’s Zionist Federation on Thursday strongly condemned a one-sided statement on the conflict in Gaza issued by the ruling ANC party’s Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte. “The State of Israel has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death
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International, Middle EastRabbi revisits his old camping grounds
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO– In parashat Pinchas we continue reading about the Israelites’ adventures as they camped through the Sinai desert….which, of course, reminds me of my trip to visit Tifereth Israel’s kids at Camp Ramah last week! It has been a couple of years since Judy and I visited camp, which is
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Jewish ReligionJane Scher chairs S.D. Jewish Comm. Found.
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Jane Scher as Board Chair as of July 1. A statement from the Jewish Community Foundation added the following: “Jane’s leadership experience spans 13 years as a Foundation board member, including serving as Vice Chair and Secretary. Jane
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San Diego CountyWarfare keeps Israelis glued to the news
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We’ve been here countless times, and the general picture is all too familiar. Our Jerusalem residence close to Arab villages is an element of safety. We’re pretty near the limit of what the Gazans can shoot, and they are most likely aiming for areas more certainly Jewish. However, their aim is far
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBooks tell of Germany’s destroyed synagogues
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (TNA)–I literally trembled with emotion when I held the two volumes ofPogrom Night 1938: A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany. Together they comprise over seven hundred pages which are packed with information about the more than one thousand synagogues and prayer rooms that existed in pre-WWII Germany
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish HistoryAmid war, Israeli hospitals treat Pal. patients
By Aryeh Savir HAIFA, Israel –Rambam Health Care Campus provides medical care to hundreds of patients from Gaza and the Palestinian Authority (PA) year round. 650 children and teenagers in were treated in the hospital throughout 2013. Currently, hospitalized patients include 3 adults and 8 children from Gaza, and 3 adults and 2 children from
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Middle EastJNS news briefs: July 10, 2014
Israel’s center, south remain under heavy rocket fire (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As Israel entered the third day of Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets into Israeli cities and towns across the map. Since Tuesday, Hamas and other Gaza terrorist groups have launched rockets as far as 73
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Middle EastTemecula’s literary legacy: ‘Perry Mason,’ ‘Ramona’
-Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAMassive retaliation against Gaza urged
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most famous attacks in WWII was when the Allies bombed Dresden. British historians love debating whether the wholesale destruction of this once beautiful city and symbol of humanism and baroque culture was really, “necessary.” Dresden is one of the tragic images that
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