Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Feb. 8, 1957, Part 2

Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, February 8, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman ‘Titles’ –Probably the most confused fields to the lay person are those of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. For that reason, the panel discussion sponsored by the Jewish Social Agency on “Titles” attracted a large attendance. If you are a “Lay in the […]

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Adventures in SD History

Hate crimes sad proof Israel a ‘normal’ country

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — David Ben Gurion once said,  “We will know we have become a normal country when Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew.” A more up to date indicator of Israel’s normality, taken from recent news, is young Jews terrorizing Arabs. Are these occasions for “oy gevalt,” or simply

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘See How They Run’ is a hilarious farce in a vicarage

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California —Farce: sham, circus, mockery, travesty, absurd situation. Call it what you like, but See How They Run is all of the above. Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado has little gift for you as the closing months of summer make way for the seriousness of fall. It comes in the form

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 8, 1957, Part 1

Abramson, Sklar, Domnitz Accept Leadership In Drive Southwestern Jewish Press, February 8, 1957, Pages  1, 6 Abe Abramson, local carpeting executive, has been appointed Pace-Setters Chairman of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, it was announced by Dr. Walter Ornstein and Victor Schulman, General Campaign Co-Chairmen. He was joined as a division leader by

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

JNS News Briefs: August 29, 2012

www.jns.org/news-briefs Anti-Semitic attacks in France up 40% since March, month of school shooting (JNS.org) French Jews have seen an uptick of 40 percent in anti-Semitic attacks since March, when Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, Reuters reported. According to Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Abraham Cooper,

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International

Author teaches children about grandparents’ mortality

  By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — There aren’t many bubbies or zadies in Taiwan, although there are, of course, lots of elderly grandmas and grandpas among the island nation’s 23 million people. Grandmothers are lovingly  called “Amah” and grandfathers “Akong.” And like grandmas and grandpas everywhere, they get sick and die, and children

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Travel and Food

Anti-Semitic hate crime alleged at Michigan State University

DETROIT, Michigan (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  on Tuesday, Aug. 28, expressed outrage and horror at an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime against a student at Michigan State University.  The student was knocked unconscious and had his mouth stapled shut by two men at a party, after the men allegedly asked the student if he

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USA

German circumcision ban shows Jew-hatred back in fashion

Laws and a culture of guilt about the legacy of the Nazis have kept expressions of Jew-hatred on the margins of German society. But with judges and doctors and others openly attacking Judaism, it’s apparent Germans are increasingly undeterred by such factors. By Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org When a court in Cologne, Germany ruled in June

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