Israel foes, defenders spar before CSU Trustees

By Roberta R. Seid, Ph.D and Roz Rothstein LONG BEACH, California — The recent California State University (CSU) Trustees bimonthly meeting took an odd turn. Amid pressing discussions about budgets, improving student success, and other education issues, anti-Israel boycott activists at the January 29, 2014 meeting interjected the subject of Jews and Israel. They made up almost

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1957, Part 1

Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy 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 per article,  to Family

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

Book Review: ‘Unexpected Gifts’

Azriela Jaffe, Unexpected Gifts: A Novel, Menucha Publishers, (c) 2013, ISBN 978-161465-132-1,                     255 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– “Everybody’s got tzuris,” my late father, Martin B. Harrison, liked to point out.  Were he alive to have read this book, he’d have tapped it authoritatively, and said, “What did I tell you?” Some

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Donald H. Harrison

The saga of Lyndon Baines Johnson

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –How was it that a bawdy, bulky, cowboy-caricature of a roughshod politician, a man with a foul mouth and oversized hands, a classic “good ol’ boy,” became the one who truly signed off on the civil rights legislation that Martin Luther King had dreamed about for so long? And

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‘Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices’ Feb 18 at LFJCC

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– “Jewish Poets – Jewish Voices” will continue in the Astor Judaica Library for the sixth year with three Tuesday evenings—beginning on Tuesday, February 18  at 7 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC), 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. The three featured authors

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Israel’s controversies to prompt incremental responses

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– The people of Israel of have survived worse than the threats currently being made by Palestinians, John Kerry and Thomas Friedman. The betting is that Israel and Palestine will agree to continue talking for another year, if only to avoid a frontal insult to the American administration. Kerry and Friedman do

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Bill seeks background checks for foreign flight students

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Flight schools and flight instructors at San Diego County-owned airports “must show that all foreign students have completed federal background checks, my colleagues and I agreed on Wednesday,” County Supervisor Dave Roberts reported in his newsletter on Friday, Feb. 7. “The federal government has legal authority over aviation in the United States

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