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JNS news briefs: February 24, 2014
Iran ‘handing out torches to pyromaniacs’ on all fronts, IDF chief says (JNS.org) For Israel, there is “no front where Iran is not involved, handing out torches to pyromaniacs, with munitions and rockets,” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told reporters during a tour of the Golan Heights on Sunday. Commenting
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InternationalWhy there’s a new edition of Jewish baseball cards
NEWTON, Massachusetts (Press Release)– The seventh edition of Jewish Major Leaguer Baseball Cards – a 50-card set largely focused on events in baseball involving Jewish players over the last four years, will be released on March 15. The 2010 edition, the fifth update, was thought to be the last. But popular demand, contributions and encouragement
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USAClinical study is promising for Type 1 diabetes patients
DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A clinical study on a promising treatment for Type 1 diabetes developed by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher in collaboration with the University of Colorado Health Science Center had an “exceptional outcome” after an eight-week treatment of Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT). According to the study published in the Journal of
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Travel and FoodMuslims, Jews see the world differently
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis have been seeking accommodation for decades, depending on when you start counting, first with Arabs and later with Palestinians. It is common, and perhaps justified, for Israelis and our friends to blame the Arabs for intransigence as well as violence. That is a cultural perspective, one that sees Israelis with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East2 U.S. Reps. hold Town Hall in Israel
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–The town hall meeting, unique to New England’s traditional style of local citizen governance, made its way to Jerusalem when two US Congressmen visited Israel’s capital to discuss ‘local’ issues with U.S. citizens recently. U.S. Congressmen Bill Johnson (R-OH) and David McKinley (R-WV) took part in a historic town hall meeting with
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Middle EastAlice Herz Sommer, Holocaust survivor, pianist
LONDON (WJC)- -Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor and a renowned concert pianist, died in London at the age of 110.She was born in 1903 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague at a time when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and endured the city’s ghetto following the Gernan
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Travel and FoodAdventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 18, 1957, 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 HistoryJewish Caucus becomes official legislative body
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– On as yet an unspecified date in March, the Jewish Caucus, now numbering nine legislators, formally will be welcomed by other caucuses as an official body of the California State Legislature, according to State Senator Marty Block, the San Diego Democrat who founded the new organization. The Jewish Caucus
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Donald H. HarrisonKamin on Interfaith panel on Dr. King
OCEANSIDE, Californa (SDJW) — Rabbi Ben Kamin, a San Diego Jewish World contributor who has written several books on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, will discuss King’s influence on religious communities at noon Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Conference Rooms of the Student Center on the MiraCosta College campus
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San Diego CountyScholar examines myths about Herzl
Georges Yitshak Weisz, Theodor Herzl: A New Reading, Gefen Publishing House, (c) 2013, ISBN: 9789652295873, 295 pages including appendices and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This is both biography and historiography of the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl. Through an examination of what previous historians have said about Herzl, Weisz provides readers with highlights of
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Donald H. HarrisonJapan to investigate Anne Frank book vandalism
NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC praised the Japanese government’s response to the vandalism of hundreds of copies of Anne Frank’s diary in Tokyo public libraries. For decades, the Holocaust-era book has been extremely popular and widely read in Japan. “This is a shameful act and I am confident that the police authority is making
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InternationalIsraeli Navy rescues friend and foe alike
By Yissachar Ruas OFF ISRAEL’S COASTLINE — Israel’s Navy is the IDF’s smallest branch and the least known. Israel’s navy actually predates the establishment of the State, existing as the Mossad LeAliya Bet, the Haganah’s illegal immigration organization, running ships through the British blockade in an attempt to rescue Jews from Europe and smuggle them
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Middle EastPurim appeal to help Jews of the Ukraine
By Rabbi Tzvi Graetz JERUSALEM–As the news from Kiev, Ukraine worsens and grows more violent, we have spoken with our Masorti/Conservative Rabbi Reuven Stamov and his wife Lena who are in Israel for a short visit. Their two young daughters are still in Ukraine but are staying with their grandmother outside of the city. As
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