SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Eric S. Levine, former executive director of Congregation Beth El, faces will be sentenced June 27 for mail fraud following a guilty plea entered Monday, April 7, in San Diego federal court. He was charged with misappropriating over $390,000 from the Conservative congregation in La Jolla by falsifying in the synagogue’s
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– April 8, Equal Pay Day, marks the extra days into the new year a woman would have to work to earn as much as a man. Congresswoman Susan Davis has been working to close the wage gap that still exists between women and men, while President Obama took executive action to
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USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Don Schlesinger has joined the staff of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County as Senior Director of Community Partnerships. He will lead Federation’s Israel and overseas initiatives, NextGen young adult outreach, Jewish camping, the community chaplaincy programs and the Jewish Community Relations Council. He will work closely with the CEO,
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San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – It was, to his chemistry professor’s surprise, more than just a science project that Jeremy D. Nemetz turned in as classwork. It was a true discovery showing that the higher the gravity, the slower chemicals will react with one another. “Jeremy did an amazingly simple experiment. I
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Donald H. Harrison
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO (TOSD) — “Blackfish” may have moved viewers and supporters of banning orca shows at SeaWorld of San Diego, but it had no clout Tuesday in Sacramento. Assembly Bill 2140, which would have put limits on Shamu displays and halted the San Diego park’s captive breeding program, was tabled by the Assembly
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Ken Stone, The World We Share, Travel and Food
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org PARIS — Against the backdrop of studies revealing rising anti-Semitism both in France and across all of Europe, as well as one particularly brutal attack in Paris last month, French Jews are flocking to Israel. On March 30, the Jewish Agency for Israel released figures showing that aliyah from France increased dramatically
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International, Middle East
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — With only weeks left before the planned April 29 deadline to reach an agreement in the U.S. brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, the Obama administration has been working overtime to salvage talks that unraveled early last week. Despite the effort, experts are bearish on whether any progress can be
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Middle East
By Ryan Dawes NEW YORK — As the story goes, when the Jews of 17th-century Prague feared for their lives, their rabbi went down to the river where he collected clay and fashioned it into the shape of a man. It came alive, and the golem was born. But the rabbi’s creation was all too
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — A General will sometimes need to sacrifice a battle in order to win the war. An expert chess player will sometimes sacrifice a chess piece in order to win the match. The manager of a baseball team will sometimes sacrifice a runner in order to win the game.
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Jewish Religion
By Regina Brett/JNS.org CLEVELAND — That first Passover was a tough one. I had been dating a Jewish man for the first time in my life and he invited me to celebrate Passover with a few dozen friends. He didn’t warn me about the four cups of wine. (I don’t drink.) He didn’t tell me
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Jewish ReligionRussian bill against denial of Holocaust and Nazi crimes gains initial approval (JNS.org) Russian legislators have given initial approval to a bill against the “rehabilitations of Nazism” that will punish historians for denying Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, Voice of Russia reported. “Our country has not simply defended itself. We have defended the whole world
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International
AVENTURA, Florida (Press Release) – South Florida will be home to a second professional basketball team – the Miami Midnites – the official professional developmental team of the 2012-13 Israeli Super League champion Maccabi Haifa basketball club. The Miami Midnites were founded by Triangle Entertainment, a sports and entertainment firm based in Aventura, Florida, which owns
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Sports & Competitions
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Tawfik Hamid, Ph.D., is a unique and solitary voice in the Islamic world. A self-described former terrorist, he was a member of the militant al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who later on became the second in command of Al-Qaeda and now heads it. He stresses he has never actually committed an
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Whenever there is a hiccup in the peace process, or signs of real crises between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli and international left trot out the one-state solution. Their message is that Israel will be stuck with one state between the Jordan and the Sea that will include both Israelis
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East