By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– As this father waited for his son to arrive from work, he took in the sights of the Choice of Mandarin restaurant in the Tierrasanta neighborhood where they would enjoy lunch. From his vantage point he could see, across the room, mirrored panels alternating with sections of dark red […]
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Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman Sound Off! 1-2-3-4 During and after the last war, because of my U.S.O. affiliations, I attended many Naval ceremonies in this area. Last Saturday, I had a personal interest in the graduation exercises for “Boots” at the Naval Training Center. I had
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Peter Huessy WASHINGTON, D.C. –Since the end of the Cold War, every U.S. administration made deterring, preventing, or eliminating the threat of nuclear terrorism a top priority. Americans are rightly worried that a terror sponsoring state such as Iran or North Korea, in cooperation with a terrorist group, might seek to detonate a nuclear
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USAPALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has posthumously honored Varian Fry, an American journalist responsible for aiding thousands of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, with the ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award The award was presented posthumously to Fry on February 8 during the League’s National Executive Committee Meeting in
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — North Korea’s nuclear test has cast a shadow over Barack Obama’s visit to Israel. Speculation was that a key item on the agenda would be Obama’s pressure that Israel forget about its own attack on Iran. We’re hearing that Israel might have been planning such a thing in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Beth Kissileff/JNS.org On Yom Kippur, Sept. 26, 2012, Sami Rahamim was with his father Reuven at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minn. On Feb. 4, 2013, 17-year-old Sami opened a roundtable discussion at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center meeting with President Barack Obama. In between? Reuven Rahamim was shot the
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USANetanyahu to American Jewish leaders: Iran getting closer to crossing nuclear line (JNS.org) The Iranians are getting ever closer to developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jewish American leaders on Monday in Jerusalem. “I drew a line at the UN last time I was there,” Netanyahu told leaders from the Conference of Presidents
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InternationalBy Gabriel Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — Depending on what one believes, a week-and-a-half ago Israeli fighter jets struck either an arms convoy in Lebanon, the Assad regime’s nerve center for biological and chemical weapons research in Damascus, or an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters, in an attempt to contain the spillover from the Syrian
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Middle EastBy Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel may be one of the United States’ closest allies but a review of State of the Union speeches for the past 20 years finds that more often than not the issue of Middle East peace and/or Israel have not been mentioned at all. What stands out from this
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Middle EastBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I often ask myself how can a president with this record on economy and national security get reelected. The legitimate enthusiasm of good people witnessing a Black person become president of the US can provide an explanation for the first election in 2008. The second one should
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Women’s Division Of Fund Drive Plan Last Luncheon Apr. 30 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 19, 1957, Page 1 The Women’s Division was announced as the top group in the United Jewish Fund Campaign by Dr. Wallter Ornstein and Victor Schulman, Geneal Campaign Co-Chairmen. Under the leadership of Mrs. Lewis Solomon and her Co-Chairmen, Mrs. Irving
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) – As part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity and responsible banking, Union Bank, N.A., partnered with KPBS to honor 16 local individuals who are making a difference to enrich the lives of others. The honorees were announced throughout 2012 as part of the Cultural Diversity Partnership, which recognizes and
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San Diego CountyLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–As the Jewish community on the West Coast grows ever stronger, the Reform Movement is expanding its focus on youth engagement there through large-scale youth programming and increased funding for URJ Camps and URJ Campaign for Youth Engagement initiatives. Nearly 900 Reform Jewish teens and more than 125 professionals and lay leaders
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Jewish ReligionBy Sean Savage (JNS.org)As a presidential candidate in Iran, Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi believes the Islamic Republic should prioritize allaying its tension with Israel and the United States—not the kind of approach the world has been accustomed to seeing lately from a country whose leaders repeatedly vow to wipe the Jewish state off the map.
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