Los Angeles elects its first Jewish mayor (JNS.org) Eric Garcetti will be the first elected Jewish mayor in the history of Los Angeles after winning 54 percent of the vote in a race decided early Wednesday morning. Garcetti, a 42-year-old Democratic city councilman whose mother is of Russian Jewish descent and whose father is Mexican […]
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International
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– I don’t usually disagree publicly with lecturers, particularly when they are expressing opinions which are mostly consistent with my own. But there was one time when I felt that I had to speak up and object to one of the speaker’s expressions. It was at a lecture on
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — A tornado flattened much of the town of Moore, Oklahoma with gale winds exceeding over 300 miles an hour. This was not the first time tornadoes visited the area of Oklahoma, better known as “Tornado Alley.” In 1998, 2003, and 2010, smaller tornadoes left their mark on the communities in the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has launched a relief fund to gather aid for the victims of the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City area this week, killing and injuring many people and leaving a wide path of destruction. One hundred percent of funds donated will go
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USA
By Jeremy Ben Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State John Kerry is back in the Middle East this week for his fourth visit in three months. And J Street’s Leadership is back in the United States after a 9-day, 8-night mission to Israel and the Palestinian territory. We met Israeli and Palestinian political and
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, was honored on May 20 with the Technion Medal, the greatest recognition by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, awarded only every three to five years. He received the medal during a festive event in Haifa, marking 20 years of Qualcomm activities
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Widely available in pharmacies and health stores, phosphatidylserine is a natural food supplement produced from beef, oysters, and soy. Proven to improve cognition and slow memory loss, it’s a popular treatment for older people experiencing memory impairment. Now a team headed by Prof. Gil Ast and Dr. Ron Bochner of
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — History is back and so are the Russians. After an interregnum of twenty years, during which the communist Soviet Union was demolished and a crony capitalist, Russian kleptocracy turned inward to establish firm control of journalists (oh wait, that might have been the Obama Administration), civil society practitioners including
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Shoshana Bryen, USAIDF fired on from Syria for third straight day (JNS.org) An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) jeep in the central Golan Heights was hit by gunfire from across the Syrian border on Tuesday, marking the third straight day the Israeli army was fired on from Syria, the IDF said in a statement. IDF artillery units “returned
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International
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO-The death of a parent is like the loss of a limb. The death of a child or a spouse is more like having part of your heart excised with a dull, rusty blade. The cut is jagged, the hemorrhaging persistent. Each time the flow is staunched,
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Eva TriegerSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Jewish Film Festival presents, AKA Doc Pomus. The film screening will be held on Wednesday, May 29, at 7:00 PM in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC. The event is sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. Doc Pomus’ tale is one
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Travel and FoodBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Earlier this year on San Diego Jewish World, I presented some thoughts about how to forge closer bonds between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora to ensure that we remain a single people, rather than just coreligionists. The op-ed assumed that Israel is important, and now I would
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Arkady Mamaysky, Middle EastBy Carissa Leigh EL CAJON (Press Release) — English professor Tate Hurvitz will lead a common reading project on the Grossmont College campus for the third year in a row this upcoming Fall 2013 semester.. Students and faculty members from a variety of academic disciplines will read Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman NAZARETH, Israel — Four years ago, the Israeli government named Nazareth a national priority area, meaning that Israel’s largest Arab city would be granted economic incentives as a preferential area and firms that relocate to the city are entitled to tax breaks. Recently, the first industrial park in Nazareth was officially opened
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Science, Medicine, & Education