No deal with Iran is better than bad deal, says Netanyahu

  JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday, May 7, in Jerusalem with prominent Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters from the United States and Panama. During the meeting with the FIDF Delegation, Netanyahu addressed the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Palestinian issue. “Iran seeks to destroy the State

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Middle East

Tunisian-born Jackie Gmach shares her American torment

Jacqueline Semha Gmach (with Hillary Selese Liber), From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds, Gefen Publishing House © 2014, ISBN 978-965-229-641-2, 288 pages including glossary and epilogue. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is a difficult, shockingly honest book, by the woman who helped to engineer, and who perhaps even personifies, San

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Nadler calls for end to sweeping security measures

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)– Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), a veteran member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered a statement during the markup Wednesday, May 7, of the USA Freedom Act. “Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States government has aggressively expanded surveillance in and outside the United States at a high cost to individual

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USA

Cardin welcomes Russian feminist protest group to U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – On the second anniversary of the Russian Government’s crackdown on Bolotnaya Square protests in Moscow, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, met at the U.S. Capitol with Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria [Masha] Alyokhina of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. The

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International, USA

Job available at Rep. Susan Davis’s office

  SAN DIEGO (SDJW)–Congressman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) is seeking a full time staff assistant in her district office in San Diego. According to a notice se nt out by her office, “Job responsibilities include fielding constituent calls, processing mail, coordinating the internship program, assisting with casework and constituent requests for information, maintaining a photographic

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Travel and Food

Legislation advances to permit Legislature to withhold pay, benefits to suspended members

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) — A Constitutional Amendment that would allow each house of the Legislature to withhold pay and benefits of a lawmaker who is suspended has cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday, May 6, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments. SCA 17  by Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)

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USA

Double lens system developed for Smartphones

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite an addiction to taking pictures everywhere they go, cellphone junkies have not been able to ditch their stand-alone cameras quite yet. Smartphones still don’t possess the sharp zoom capabilities of digital still cameras, so the resulting pictures can be messy and out-of-focus. That won’t be the case for long, however.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: May 7, 2014

OECD: Israeli life expectancy among world’s highest (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Life expectancy in Israel ranks eighth among the world’s 36 most developed countries, according to a new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report released Tuesday. The report said the average life expectancy in Israel is 82, two years higher than the OECD

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 21, 1958, Part 1

  Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5

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Adventures in SD History

Feinstein: Climate change could cause California’s ruin

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Obama administration on Tuesday, May 6,  released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report on climate change and how it will affect the country and economy. The report, which summarizes effects of climate change on the United States, was compiled by a team of more than 300 experts. According to

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA