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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 7, 1958, Part 1
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Adventures in SD HistoryBrandeis was wrong to cancel Ali’s honor
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most important feminists fighting for women’s rights in the Islamic world is a woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This remarkable woman was born in Somalia where she was raised as a Muslim. She spent her youth and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIDF soldiers have highs and lows on SDSU visit
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Yishai and Ilana are students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, but they weren’t visiting San Diego County in that capacity earlier this week. They came as two former active-duty 1st lieutenants of the Israel Defense Forces, and, as such, could be identified only by their first
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Donald H. HarrisonAn Israeli tourist’s reflections on America
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –Returning from a four-week jaunt across the USA in which we visited six cities and met countless relatives and friends – both old and new – it took no time at all to get used to the pace of life in Israel. That may be due in part to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, USANYT OpEd writers confuse Haredim, modern Orthodox
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –That an Iranian scholar, Abbas Milani of Stanford University, should get it wrong about Israel in a piece in the New York Times of April 11 is understandable. But that his co-author, Israel Weismel-Manor of Haifa University and currently a visiting professor at Stanford should so misrepresent Israel suggests malice,
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Middle EastEastern chapter rejects ASA boycott of Israel
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylviania (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) congratulates the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) chapter for rejecting the national American Studies Association boycott against Israeli academics passed by the organization’s membership in December. EASA is one of the ASA’s 13 regional chapters. The Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) has joined its
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationKerry, other politicians should keep hands off
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics is the civilized way of dealing with disputes. Campaigns, voting, and the routine displacement of the losers by the winners is the way of enlightened government. Making policy and managing programs are more complicated than election campaigns. They require professional expertise in the myriad of fields that government touches.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastHumoring the headlines: April 11, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-The Manischewitz Company announced this week that it has been sold to Sankaty Advisors, a subsidiary of Bain Capital. Sankaty plans to outsource the production of matzo to Third World countries with hot climates. Following the Passover tradition, slave laborers will carry the flattened matzo dough on their backs to bake
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireVeteran U.S. diplomat William Burns to retire
WAHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released the following statement following the announcement that Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will retire later this year: “It is hard to find words adequate to express who Bill Burns is, and what he means not just to the State Department, but to American foreign
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USAJ Street: Israel, Palestinians have stared into abyss
By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. –As we head into the Passover holiday, the peace initiative launched last summer by Secretary of State John Kerry to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians hangs in a curious limbo – certainly not dead but definitely not bursting with life either. With an April 29 deadline to agree
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Middle EastConf. of Presidents lauds barring of Iranian diplomat
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations lauded the announcement by White House spokesman, Jay Carney, that a visa to enter the US will not be issued to the proposed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, who was involved in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy
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Middle East, USASan Diego Democrats endorse Davis, Keehn
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two Jewish women won endorsements from the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee for offices that will be on the ballot in June. One is an incumbent, Congresswoman Susan Davis, and the other is a lawyer making a bid for a Superior Court judgeship, Carla Keehn. Davis is a familiar name on
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyObama weighs Rabbi Bycel for Holocaust Commission
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release). — In a list of intended nominations, U.S. President Barack Obama said he plans to appoint Rabbi Lee T. Bycel of Napa, California, as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The White House website provided the following biographical information about Rabbi Bycel: “Rabbi Lee T. Bycel is Rabbi
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