Nazi march toxic for Latvia minister’s career

RIGA (WJC)– Latvia’s Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma sacked a member of her government for attending a pro-Nazi rally in the capital Riga. Environment Minister Einars Cilinskis of the rightist National Alliance participated in the annual march of Waffen-SS veterans and their supporters. About 1,500 people attended the event on Sunday, which has been held in the Latvian capital for nearly two decades. Cilinskis ignored a

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish World, December 27, 1957, Part 3

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 payment

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Adventures in SD History

CCAR to honor HUC-JIR’s Rabbi David Ellenson

CHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release) — The Central Conference of American Rabbis will honor Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., at the Crown Family Symposium on Rabbinic Leadership on Monday, March 31, 2014, as part of the 125th annual CCAR Convention, in Chicago. The CCAR is the representative organization of nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis, the world’s largest group

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Jewish Religion, USA

Utilizing employee’s letters, AJC publishes ‘Exit Berlin’

NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC announces the publication of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany.  Authored by Charlotte Bonelli, director of AJC Archives, and published by Yale University Press, Exit Berlin offers unique insights into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the perspective of one young German Jewish woman.

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Jewish History

Davis, Peters call for more health research funds

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)-– Democratic Reps. Susan Davis and Scott Peters, along with members of San Diego’s medical research community joined together on Monday, March 17,  to call on Congress to increase federal funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds critical medical research. Budget cuts threaten this research and San Diego’s economy.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Stream of Israeli musicians flows into San Diego

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–During the past three weeks, four outstanding young Israel-born artists performed in La Jolla.  Three of the young men call themselves Israelis and had their early training in the music schools of Israel. The fourth, an Arab, born in Nazereth, calls himself Palestinian, and received his early training with private teachers

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Professors to survey Jewish college students

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Press Release)– Trinity College professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar are embarking on an online national survey of Jewish university and college students. This large-scale study is a follow-up to their  2013 online national survey of the worldviews and opinions of all American college students. The focus on college students differentiates the Trinity

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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education

Still no Baseball Hall of Fame slot for Marvin Miller

  By Robert Gluck/JNS.org With another season of “America’s pastime” beginning March 22, famed Jewish executive Marvin Miller remains out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Why is that the case? Bob Locker—a major league pitcher from 1965-75 and creator of a Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com—blames ownership for the exclusion of Miller, the

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