Should we blame the credit card company or the naive youth who ran up debt?

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This semester I am teaching the senior class at our new Community Jewish High School. There are only five students in the class but they are all exceptionally bright and Jewishly committed. We have been using a new book from a new series entitled,  Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices, edited by Rabbi […]

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Jewish Religion

First Amendment: Would Speaker Boehner bill would erode separation of church and state?

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to subsidize religious schools in the District of Columbia would undercut civil rights and civil liberties and add to the federal budget deficit, while failing to improve education, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Boehner has announced that  he will unveil a bill

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Jewish Religion

Republicans introduce ‘See something, say something’ to guard against terror

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – ­U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, along with 11 other Committee Republicans, introduced legislation Wednesdday that would provide legal protections to individuals who report suspicious activity that may reflect a terrorist threat.  The See Something, Say Something Act of 2011 would provide civil immunity in

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USA

Bill would require military tribunals, not civil courts, for accused foreign terrorists

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– Congressman Vern Buchanan (R-Floridaa) introduced legislation Wednesday requiring terrorists to be tried as enemy combatants, not common criminals. Buchanan’s bill, the “Military Tribunals for Terrorists Act” will mandate that any terrorist who attacks the United States or its people be interrogated, prosecuted and tried in military court, not civilian court. “The American

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USA

U.S. Treaasury Dept. targets assets of Lebanese drug and money laundering operation

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Wednesday designated Lebanese narcotics trafficker Ayman Joumaa, as well as nine individuals and 19 entities connected to his drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).

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Travel and Food

Foundation seeks 120 million British pounds to preserve Auschwitz-Birkenau as Holocaust memorial

OSWIECIM, Poland (Press Release)— On the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation announces its “Intervene Now!” campaign.  “Intervene Now!” is an initiative to engage individuals, organizations and governments around the world to protect and preserve the authentic remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the memory

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Travel and Food

Pioneering work on cellular repair processes wins Clowes Award for cancer research

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Prof. Yosef Shiloh of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine is the first Israeli researcher ever to win the prestigious Clowes Award for cancer research, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Florida later this year. The prize includes

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Science, Medicine, & Education

A bissel this, a bissel that –San Diego Jewish news and chatter

 (column 13, January 27, 2011)     Compiled by Donald H. Harrison _________________ Jewish organizations _________________ * A trialogue among representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths will be conducted 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, at Temple Adat Shaom, 15905 Pomerado Road, Poway.  Host Rabbi David Castiglione will be joined on a panel by

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