Legislation urges memorialization of Jewish chaplains at Arlington National Cemetery

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – A meaningful effort is underway to ensure that Jewish chaplains who perished while serving on active duty are no longer excluded from Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Representatives Anthony Weiner (D- New York) and Tom Rooney (R-Florida), along with Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York), have introduced a bipartisan congressional resolution […]

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Jewish Religion

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment’

By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO –In the early 1970’s, during the summer of my first year of teaching, I left New York City for the kibbutz adventure in Israel. I was first sent to Rosh Hanikra, a kibbutz right on the border with Lebanon. The kibbutz had just recently added some new volunteers to

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Travel and Food

Sherman to continue as top Democrat on House subcommittee on terror

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California) announced his selection as the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade to be chaired by Congressman Ed Royce (R-California). “I am honored to be selected by my colleagues to once again serve as the lead Democrat on the House Foreign

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USA

Jane Harman quits the Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Jane Harman (D-California) announced on Tuesday that she plans to resign her congressional seat to become the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,Washington, D.C.   President Barack Obama responded: “Through nearly two decades in Congress, Jane Harman has been a champion of our national security, from standing up for

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USA

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Our Disappeared’

  By Yvonne Greenberg     LA JOLLA, California — What started out as filmmaker’s Juan Mandelbaum’s hopeful search for his college girlfriend Patricia Dixon in his documentary, Our Disappeared, turns into a horrifying discovery that she was killed during Argentina’s “Dirty War” by the right wing junta.   During the “Dirty War,” from 1976-1983,

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 14, 1955, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World Another Milestone Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 5 The business of living has made some of us immune to the emotional impacts that hit our city from time to time. When we examined the completed building of the new Hebrew Home for the Aged, we could not

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

ZOA lauds Orange County district attorney for prosecution of UCI hecklers

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Office of the District Attorney in Orange County, Californai,  for criminally charging the 11 students who deliberately and repeatedly disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on February 8, 2010.  The 11 students – eight from UCI,

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USA

Israeli, American, Japanese researchers develop new burn ointment for diabetes patients

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– A low cost, nanometer-sized drug to treat chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers or burns, has been developed by a group of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School and others in the U.S. and Japan. Diabetes is a rapidly growing medical problem affecting close to three percent of the

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Science, Medicine, & Education

150 scholars attend ‘civil discourse’ on Middle East

MIAMI, Florida (Press Release) — Over 150 experts, representing many disciplines and fields, as well as a number of current and former government officials, participated in a recent conference on the U.S.-Israel special relationship held here.  The conference, sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and hosted by the Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Jewish

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Predictions of new intifada based on faulty assumptions

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Major events in Lebanon,Tunis and Egypt, along with lesser noises from Yemen and Jordan have excited the Israeli and international peace camps to insist on greater efforts by Israel, the United States and others. If not, Israel will pay a heavy price in inevitable violence, and the rest of the world will

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Lonely Planet’ cites Tel Aviv as among 2011’s top three tourist destinations

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— If Jerusalem is known as the city in which to pray, then neighboring Tel Aviv is definitely the place to play –– and study — according to travel authority Lonely Planet. Citing Tel Aviv as one of the world’s top three cities to visit in 2011 — New York claimed the #1 spot,

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Travel and Food

Auschwitz sign stealer transferred to Swedish prison

KRAKOW, Poland (WJC) — The former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, who organized the theft of the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign from Auschwitz, has been transferred to his home country to serve his three-year prison sentence. Högström was handed over to Swedish officials at Krakow Airport, according to media reports. Last December, a Polish court sentenced

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Travel and Food

Erdogan seeks to drum up popular Egyptian anger against Israel

ALEPPO, Syria  (Press Release)–Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that “Israel must under no circumstance interfere” in what is happening in Egypt. He told the Turkish newspaper ‘Hürriyet’ that the US and Greece should intervene to stop Israel should it be “inclined to meddle in Egypt in a last-ditch effort to try and

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Middle East