Retailers urged to push for commonsense gun laws

WASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13,  to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy  and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce […]

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Amid tumult, Rivkin heads for Israel and P.A.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (SDJW) — Amid the tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the kidnapping of three teenagers, one of whom has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, the U.S. State Department issued a routine announcement that Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, “will travel to Tel Aviv,

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Middle East, USA

Humoring the Headlines: June 13, 2014

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―A California Superior Court ruled that tenure for public school teachers is illegal because it denies students access to quality education by guaranteeing tenured teachers their positions despite their teaching records. Will federal judges recuse themselves from hearing subsequent appeals of the case because they all hold lifetime appointments? *

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

DA’s DNA program receives award

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced  on Friday, June 13, her office has received a 2014 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo) for an innovative DNA project that is boosting prosecutions and jail time for defendants who commit multiple crimes.  By integrating a real-time DNA database

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Australia turns away bishop who denies Holocaust

CANBERRA, Australia (WJC)–Australian authorities have barred a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop from entering the country. Bishop Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia later this month but his visa was revoked this week, the ‘Australian Jewish News’ reported. The Jewish newspaper said it had contacted the Department of Immigration last week to alert them

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International, Jewish History

EJC announces lawsuit against Le Pen for ‘oven’ remark

PARIS (WJC) –The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has announced that it will file a lawsuit in a Paris court against Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and long-time leader of the far-right French National Front, after anti-Semitic remarks by Le Pen about Jewish singer Patrick Bruel which caused outrage.  LePen said, “We will do a full

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International, Jewish History

JNS news briefs: June 13, 2014

Palestinian negotiator calls Netanyahu ‘filthy war criminal,’ slams Abbas (JNS.org) In a newly surfaced audio recording, Saeb Erekat—the top Palestinian negotiator in the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks—calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “filthy war criminal” and also harshly criticizes the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “I don’t say shoot him. He isn’t worth

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International, Middle East

Blumenthal, Feinstein dismayed by George Will column on sexual assaults on college campuses

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—In a letter to long-time Washington Post columnist George Will, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and three colleagues today blasted the columnist for his June 6 piece on campus sexual assault in which he claims that survivors of the callous crime occupy a “coveted status” on their campuses that “confers privileges.” In addition

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