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Senators urge FCC action to end sports blackouts

June 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, 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, USA

Feinstein urges Calif. state laws on firearms

June 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, 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 Food

Levin praises Adrian plan to support jobless graduates

June 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, 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, USA

Boxer and Schumer wager on Kings v. Rangers series

June 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, 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, USA

San Diego Jews in the News: June 4, 2014

June 4, 2014

SAN 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

Digital bone marrow gala planned June 22

June 4, 2014

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

Modern Language Assn. members reject BDS

June 4, 2014

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

Jewish family opens AJ’s Fish Merchant

June 4, 2014

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 County

Israel has spurned meaningful Palestinian gestures

June 4, 2014

By 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 East

San Diego incumbents returned to office

June 4, 2014

By 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

Abayudaya Jewish man to speak at Beth Israel

June 3, 2014

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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International, San Diego Calendar

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 18, 1958, Part 3

June 3, 2014

Fund Approves Merger To United Jewish Federation Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1958, Page 6 To keep pace with a rapidly expanding Jewish community in San Diego County and the increased growth of Federation Agency services, the Board of Directors of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego approved the merger of the Fund and

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Adventures in SD History

Jews in the San Diego News: June 3, 2014

June 3, 2014

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Elissa Greenberg, a Francis Parker senior, a member of the community outreach program Whatever It Takes (WIT), was among teens written up by the U-T’s Pam Kragen in her “Making A Difference” column. She and other teens had received a $10,000 grant to mentor younger students in making healthy eating

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Jewish Religion, San Diego County

Funeral services June 6 for Miriam Katzin

June 3, 2014

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m., Friday, June 6, at El Camino Memorial Park for philanthropist Miram Katzin, for whom, along with her husband Jerome, the Memory Care Unit at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities in Encinitas is named. Besides by her husband, Miriam. Katzin is survived by her children,

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San Diego County

Senators urge FCC action to end sports blackouts

Feinstein urges Calif. state laws on firearms

Levin praises Adrian plan to support jobless graduates

Boxer and Schumer wager on Kings v. Rangers series

San Diego Jews in the News: June 4, 2014

Digital bone marrow gala planned June 22

Modern Language Assn. members reject BDS

Jewish family opens AJ’s Fish Merchant

Israel has spurned meaningful Palestinian gestures

San Diego incumbents returned to office

Abayudaya Jewish man to speak at Beth Israel

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 18, 1958, Part 3

Jews in the San Diego News: June 3, 2014

Funeral services June 6 for Miriam Katzin

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