By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In 1915 when Balboa Park officially opened under its new name (previously it had been called City Park), it was the site of a great exposition intended to announce to the world that San Diego County was open for business as an international port and trading center. The
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By Merav Michaeli, MK JERUSALEM–Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day. As a feminist member of Knesset, who began my activist career 18 years ago working for the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, a New Israel Fund grantee, I want to celebrate this day with you, my friends and partners outside Israel. As
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Early Wednesday, March 5, the IDF intercepted a shipment of Syrian-made M-302 rockets with a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles). The missiles, which apparently went through Iraqi airspace to Iran and then by ship to the Red Sea, were likely headed to Sudan. From there, they
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USATime to free Jonathan Pollard, Netanyahu tells Obama (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama about the issue of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s release when the two leaders met March 3 at the White House, Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel Hayom that will be published on Sunday.
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InternationalBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –What’s significant about October, 1943? During that month the Danes carried out an unprecedented rescue of Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Werner Bachmann recently told a rapt audience at a recent Forgotten People Fund luncheon in Netanya, “I was meant to be one of those murdered by
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International, Jewish History, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–Judy and I just returned from AIPAC’s National Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. This was my third Policy Conference and Judy’s first. The number of attendees grows each year. This time 14,000 supporters of Israel were present, including 2,300 students. The participants are surprisingly diverse. In addition to Jews, Christians,
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Just as she was about to retire, Lily Ledbetter, a production supervisor at an Alabama tire plant, learned that her employers had financially discriminated against her throughout her career. She filed suit for pay discrimination, losing due to a statute of limitations on equal-pay suits. As a result, President Barack Obama
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his recent criticism of “friends” who pressure Israel to accept peace deals by warning them that, if they didn’t, the movement against Israel will only strengthen. Senator Schumer said at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference that such actions
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, March 6, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of 40 prominent civil rights, human rights, religious, educational and law enforcement organizations urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the constitutionality of the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
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USABy Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — Years ago, I warned about a dangerous trend of usurpation of authority by the Executive power to the detriment of the other two co-equal powers, the Legislative and the Judiciary. I even called it “Bonapartism.” The drafters of the US Constitution, fearing ” the rule of
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, called on Congress “to restore full funding for the very successful groundbreaking joint US-Israeli missile defense program including David’s Sling, Arrow II and Arrow III as well as the funding for the
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BEERSHEVA, Israel (Press Release)–Researching clean water solutions is no new task for BGU, with water recycling technologies being used on its desert campuses. But the desert is not the only place where water research is important. In June, BGU and the University of Chicago signed a water research agreement in the presence of Chicago
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