Jewish leaders weigh education, peace negotiations

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israeli Ministers Avigdor Liberman, Minister of Foreign Affairs;  Tzipy Livni, Minister of Justice and Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs, as well as Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog and Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat addressed leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in briefings Tuesday, Feb. 18,

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Middle East

Knesset members tour Nefesh B’Nefesh offices

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The Knesset’s Committee for Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora, headed by MK Yoel Razvozov visited Nefesh B’Nefesh offices on Tuesday morning, Feb. 18. The committee toured the various departments of the organization and was able to experience the organization’s activities to encourage and increase Aliyah from North America firsthand. Various options to

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Middle East

Chesed Home: safety, yiddishkeit for mentally ill

By Donald H. Harrison ESCONDIDO, California –Now six months into operation, Chesed Home at Hope Village currently serves three residents with mental illnesses and has room for three more. Until recently there were five residents in the Home but two recently “graduated” to independent living units on the same residential property operated by Hope Village,

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Donald H. Harrison

Mother tells of tot’s coma following rock-throwing

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –The five Palestinian suspects arrested in connection with the rock attack that left three-year-old Adele Biton from the Yakir community in critical condition nearly one year ago, heard from Adele’s mother during their trial last Thursday, February 13. In March 2013, three-year-old Adele Biton was critically injured following a Palestinian

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Middle East

Tel Aviv University receives 2 melanoma research grants

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Tel Aviv University researchers won two out of three prestigious melanoma research awards granted this year by The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) and The Saban Family Foundation. The Team Science Awards are the centerpiece of the MRA research fund, which seeks to promote transformational melanoma research for swift clinical implementation.

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Meinl elected president of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress

JERUSALEM (WJC) – Delegates at the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Assembly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 18,  elected the British-Austrian businessman Julius Meinl, 54, as the organization’s new president. Meinl succeeds Vadim Shulman, who did not stand for re-election. The assembly confirmed Josef Zissels of Ukraine as chairman of the General Council and Mikhail Chlenov

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International

JNS news briefs: February 18, 2014

Boycotters of Israel are ‘classical anti-Semites in modern garb,’ Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Boycotters of Israel are “classical anti-Semites in modern garb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of leaders visiting Jerusalem with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday. “I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing,

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International

AJC lauds Peru for warm relations with Israel

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC lauded Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s visit to Israel this week. “Peru has raised the bar for South American relations with Israel,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute (LLAI). “We remember that Peru supported Israel’s bid for statehood in 1947,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1957, Part 3

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

On Sunday, the rabbi’s and Audrey’s nest was empty

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Samantha, the third among our four children in a hyphenated family, departed Sunday, Feb. 16,  for six months abroad—in South America. She’s been there before; the mosaic of Mapuche cultures, the agrarian hills and low-lying villages, the Polynesian footprints, the vineyards, the quad-gods and mingled human-animal cosmology, the

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Travel and Food