SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — With victory under her belt, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis plans to focus more resources in her fourth term on the following areas, according to the U-T’s Kristina Davis: human trafficking, elder abuse and cyber crime. * U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders, (Independent-Vermont) and John McCain (R-Arizona) have been attempting […]
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — When the Six Day War broke out on June 5, 1967, no one really expected Israel to survive. Knowing that several Arab nations were sworn to murder the Jewish state, rabbis were consecrating hills in preparation for mass burials. Israel’s stunning, lightning victory and its bittersweet acquisition of
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – In ceremonies at Omaha Beach and Sword Beach in Normandy, U.S. Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-California) will pay tribute to World War II veterans, including her father who served in the European theater, on the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. “I take personal pride and feel
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Thomas Wheeler, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and John McCain (R-Arizona ) on Wednesday, June 4, pressed the agency to eliminate its sports blackout rule in 60 days. The comment period on the proposed regulations to eliminate the FCC’s sports blackout
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday, June 4, sent a letter to California Governor Edmund G. Brown, State Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins on the recent tragic violence in Isla Vista and possible actions to prevent more senseless killings. Feinstein urged the lawmakers to amend California
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday, June 4, about the pressing need to help students finish college without crushing student loans. The text of his speech follows: Mr. President, in the fall of last year, Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan, made an announcement that
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) placed a friendly wager with his colleague U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California), over the 2014 Stanley Cup Final between the Rangers and the Kings, set to start the evening of June 4. Schumer wagered a case of Brooklyn Lager beer and soft pretzels from a
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Sports & Competitions, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW)—District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis dominated the U-T coverage of Tuesday’s election, with a news story, two sidebars, an editorial and a pair of letters to the editor on the race which she won handily against the challenges of Bob Brewer and Terri Wyatt. A story by Kristina Davis was headlined, “Dumanis in
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
BOCA RATON, Florida (Press Release)–A mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Nothing could illustrate that more than the story of Arlene Feinberg, a mother who led the charge to find a bone marrow donor for her son Jay, who had been diagnosed with leukemia. She was a pioneer recruiting volunteer donors
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) – A measure calling for the boycott of Israeli academics, first introduced at the Modern Language Association’s convention in Chicago last January, has failed to muster the minimum required for ratification, the MLA reported on Wednesday, June 4. The American Jewish Committtee (AJC) welcomed the rejection of what it called” a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A well-known San Diego Jewish family is investing its time, money, talent and several generations of local social contacts and volunteerism into A.J.’s Fish Merchant, a new informal “fish shack on the pier” style restaurant in the Keil’s Shopping Center at the intersection of Jackson Drive and
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — If one is looking for reasons of the collapse of the nine-month peace negotiations, one needs to go no further than the remark by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu after he talked with Pope Francis in Jerusalem. Netayahu said, “I long for the day in which Pope Francis’s
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With 100 percent of the unofficial returns counted, San Diego’s June 3 election proved to be a big day for incumbents. They were returned to office. Among Jewish candidates, the biggest beneficiary of this trend was District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis who won a fourth term outright with 160,658
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– A member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, Gidongo Armstrong, will be the dinner guest at a meeting of the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18. A resident of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the 26-year-old Armstrong will tell a story “which is one of
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