Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Notice of 22nd Annual Meeting of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 11 Take notice that the annual meeting of the united Jewish Fund of San Diego will be held at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, the twenty second (22nd) day of […]
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Adventures in SD HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday strongly criticized the conviction and sentencing of Alan Gross to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court and called on the Cuban government to release him on humanitarian grounds. Gross, an American subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development program and an active member of the Jewish
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — I listened again to President Barack Obama’s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear. They were both intended, perhaps, as bland rhetoric yet they carry an awesome amount of meaning. The first was this: “Suppressing ideas never make them go away.” At
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Middle East, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish WorldThe Festival of Lights (Editorial) , Chanukah, commemorating history’s first uprising on behalf of religious liberty, is a holiday which has grown in meaning and importance with the years. Jews have suffered and died for religious liberty, but the occasions when they fought were few and far between. The example
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Terrorist attacks are unpredictable, but in Israel they tend to happen especially whenever there’re signs of movements toward peace with the Palestinians. Though there’s no evidence as yet that the attack last Friday night on the Jewish settlement of Itamar near Nablus in the West Bank, which took the lives of
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–The Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs, is urging schools, campuses, synagogues, community organizations, and individuals to celebrate Israel by designating March 30 as the day to buy up Israeli goods at local stores. The date was chosen because the anti-Israel boycott campaign has planned a global boycott of Israeli products for the
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USABy Barry Rubin LOS ANGELES–As we consider the lessons of the dramatic upheavals in Arabic-speaking countries one of the main ones is this: the overriding obsession with the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel-Palestinian conflict, and Israel as the supposed cause of all regional problems has repeatedly blinded people to the realities of the region. The “normal” issues
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issues the following statement on Saturday: “I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the brutal murder of an Israeli family early Saturday morning in the West Bank. The United States condemns this appalling attack in the strongest possible terms. To kill three innocent
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A short while ago I posted a column about the lack of media attention to Israel. A few hours later five members of a family in a Jewish settlement, including a two month old infant, were slaughtered on the Sabbath. The earthquake in Japan and the possibility of radioactive clouds
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Dial Long Distance Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 5 Installation of direct distance dialing equipment that will enable local telephone users to dial their own long distance calls to many points in the country after next April 15 is scheduled to start next week. Local residents
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Barry Rubin LOS ANGELES — It’s now official. The Egyptian presidential election will pit Amr Moussa against Muhammad ElBaradei. It’s hard to see a third candidate emerging with a real chance of being elected. Come to think of it, thinking that ElBaradei has a chance of winning is alsohard to believe. In May 2007,
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A wise Marine of our acquaintance wrote in response to the last JINSA Report: More episodic US policy! Is the survival of Qadaffi’s regime a strategic objective? Do we have a discrete concept for Libyan sovereignty that is aligned with any significant Libyan domestic political forces? Is our strategic
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USAEditor’s Note: The Jewish Federation of San Diego County is participating in the relief effort described below: WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– The Jewish Federations of North America has opened an emergency relief fund to provide aid and support to the victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan earlier today, and
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Travel and FoodBy Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid LOS ANGELES –The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against the state of Israel is nothing new. Prejudice, isolation and punishment of Jews, an earlier form of BDS has recurred over the past 2,000 years. In Europe and the Middle East, Jewish people were isolated, demonized, and
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