WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has announced Senate confirmation of Cynthia Ann Bashant to be a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of California, headquartered in San Diego. Senator Feinstein recommended Bashant to the White House for this position last year. “I am very pleased that Cynthia Bashant, whom I recommended
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on Thursday, May 1, introduced a resolution condemning the April 14 abduction of as many as 234 Nigerian school girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram. While local officials have reported that
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International, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– It wasn’t just about the man’s brutish verbal treatment of the extraordinary African American athletes who have helped grow his treasury in tandem with his ego. He clearly disdains the humanity and aptitude of his youthful mistress, has no respect for his marriage, and generally dwells in a byzantine
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Sports & CompetitionsNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday strongly condemned the spate of “Price Tag” attacks in Israel, welcomed the commitment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue the perpetrators, and called on Israeli law enforcement to enhance crackdown efforts against those responsible. The so-called Price Tag attacks are carried out by extremist
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Middle East, USA
MOSHAV AMINADAV, Israel (Press Release) — On April 24th a group of kindergarteners from an Israeli elementary school visited a kindergarten class in a nearby school to deliver an olive tree to plant in their school yard. Not exactly the kind of event you’d find making front page news these days. Not unless you realize
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Americans for Peace Now (APN) is appalled and deeply disappointed at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization’s failure to accept J Street, an important player in the pro-Israel arena, into its ranks. As one of a handful of members of the Conference who focus on peace and security
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — He’s still a political science student at the Open University in Jerusalem, but Amotz Eyal, 27, has a tremendous list of accomplishments to his credit — including the founding of the Tazpit News Agency, Israel’s only wire service. Eyal will give a free lecture on the news media of Israel
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, May 1, made the following remarks during his tour of Independence Hall in Tel Aviv: “The Declaration of Independence sets, as the cornerstone in the life of the state, the national Jewish identity of the State of Israel. To my great regret, as we have
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Middle EastBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The season’s final Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program will take place Tuesday evening, 7:00 p.m. , May 6, in the Astor Judaica Library, Lawrence Family JCC. The featured poets are all published writers. Lee Ben Yehuda has several books of poetry to her credit. Myla Lichtman Fields sings some
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Travel and FoodBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — In my early years I was a confirmed pacifist. At Cornell University in the 30s I proudly wore a 2% button. Exactly what the 2% represented has been lost in the folds of memories I recall that the Oxford University Union adopted a resolution about 2% of
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International
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Sixty-five years after its establishment, Israel remains a central feature of Jewish educational programming in North America, perhaps nowhere more ubiquitously than in Jewish day schools. The AVI CHAI Foundation’s newly released report, “Hearts and Minds: Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools,” takes the measure of what day schools seek to
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with morning sickness were often prescribed the new drug thalidomide. Shortly after the medicine was released on the market, a reported 10,000 infants were born with an extreme form of the rare congenital phocomelia syndrome, which caused death in 50 percent of cases and
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. -For Palestinians, suffering — and sympathy for suffering — is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the territories. Even among Palestinian groups, while thousands suffer and die in Syria — most heinously starved in the Yarmouk refugee camp — Israelis joined relief
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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen