By Roz Rothstein and Roberta P. Seid, PhD IRVINE, California — Here we go again. It’s spring, and for the Muslim Student Union (MSU) at UC Irvine (UCI), spring means it’s time for the MSU’s annual weeklong propaganda parade of hate programs against Israel and calls for punishing it with boycotts and divestment. Forget the […]
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– Here are the results of the American Bible Contest, which was conducted Sunday under the auspices of the Jewish Agency for Israel: HEBREW HIGH SCHOOLS (i.e. kids who attend Jewish Day School and take an exam in Hebrew) Last Name First Name School Ranking Abramowitz Akiva Yeshiva of Flatbush 1 Kestenbaum
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Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Orel Hamori of Tijuana, Mexico, a student at Torah High School of San Diego, has been awarded an Alicia Flatow Scholarship for study next academic term in Israel. Hamori will study at the Michlala School with assistance from the scholarship named in memory of Alisa Flatow, a student from West
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San Diego Calendar(SDJW Editor’s Note: The following interview of J.J. Surbeck, executive director of T.E.A.M. was conducted by The California Review, a conservative student publication at the University of California at San Diego. It is reprinted with the permission of that publication. ) J.J. Surbeck is a San Diego peace activist who serves as the Executive Director of
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — “Israel may be 63 years old today but its days are numbered.” So declared one of several thousand frenzied Arab protestors along one of three borders with Israel who broke into mayhem and violence yesterday—the May 14th anniversary of Israel’s independence (Huffington News). I don’t think so. The
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“We are only 6% of the world population. We cannot impose our will on the other 94%. We cannot right every wrong, reverse each adversity…We cannot be the American solution to every world problem.” —John F. Kennedy “We have no commission from God to police the world.”—Benjamin Harrison By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California — “In foreign affairs,” De
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Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The Jewish Federation and scores of affiliated communal organizations celebrated Israel’s Independence Day on Sunday, May 15, at a new, more public, location than in past years, seeking to draw the general public’s attention both to Israel’s cause and to the variety of interests represented within the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Some years ago, Ehud Barak said that if he had been born a Palestinian, he would probably have become a freedom fighter. It was a rare hint of personal warmth in a man described by colleagues as one of the coldest fishes in Israeli politics. Barak’s military career featured a
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By Lloyd Levy LONDON–The death of Osama Bin Laden had been long in the coming, and many people celebrate that he has reaped what he has sown. Nevertheless I do believe that his portrayal in the “West” has been deliberately misleading. Blaming something called Al-Qaida, for the world’s terrorism is a deception, a politically
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Some remarkable treasures of poetic talent were unearthed during this year’s Jewish Poets —Jewish Voices evenings! This third year of the poetry series in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center included local song writers as well as local poets. On February 22, Mexican-born
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — “Memory is the only thing that grief can call its own,” Sean O’Casey wrote, and there is grief and memory enough to go around in his classic play Juno and the Paycock, now being performed at the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. Set in Dublin in 1922, the play
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Cynthia CitronCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Senior Citizens Group Formed To Aid In Leisure Time Activities Southwestern Jewish Press, March 30, 1956, Page 15 A Coordinating Committee on aging has been established by the San Diego Federation of Jewish Agencies, according to an announcement by Dr. A.P. Nasatir, President. Jewish organizations represented on the
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), who has been a steadfast supporter of Israel and a Middle East peace that’s based on the state’s full recognition by its neighbors, has written to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that they stop U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority for as
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Middle EastMILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, D-Wis., on Friday announced that he will not seek another term in 2012. Kohl is currently serving his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, which will expire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3, 2013. He delivered the following remarks from his Milwaukee Senate office
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