United for Israel FB page attracts over 100,000 friends

 BET SHEMESH, Israel (Press Release)– ‘United with Israel’, a grass-roots pro-Israel organization started by American Jewish families living in Israel, has become the fastest-growing pro-Israel Facebook page on the web. In less than 3 months it has experienced explosive, viral growth, increasing its fan base by over 100,000 people. Israel supporters from all over the world have been joining

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Middle East

ADL denounces Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic campaign

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Tuesday that anti-Semitism was “front and center” at the Nation of Islam’s annual meeting near Chicago, and that the organization and its longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, continue to engage in a targeted campaign against Jews. Minister Farrakhan’s February 27 keynote address featured a range of conspiratorial

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USA

Rabbi Martin S. Lawson to retire from Temple Emanu-El in 2012

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Rabbi Martin S. Lawson has announced his plans to retire as spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El on June 30, 2012.  “Although we are sad to see Rabbi Lawson leave in sixteen months, we will have been blessed with his spiritual leadership for 36 years,” said the congregation’s president Aaron Cohn.  A

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Travel and Food

Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School names Cohen as principal

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Soille Hebrew Day School has announced that this summer  Rabbi Meir Cohen will join its  administrative team as the school’s Principal.  “He is a brilliant, warm educator who is passionate about improving the lives of students, both academically and personally,” according to Rabbi Simcha Weiser, the headmaster. “Rabbi Cohen has succeeded in

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Travel and Food

‘Broken Glass’ tells of fearful Jews … in America

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES – Phillip Gellburg keeps insisting that he worships and adores his wife Sylvia, yet he hasn’t made love to her in more than 20 years.  “You gradually give up and it closes over you like a grave,” he says.  Further, he hates the fact that he is Jewish and devotes himself to “passing” for Gentile, yet he asserts,

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Cynthia Citron

100 U.S. & Canada college grads sought to teach English in Israel

NEW YORK (Press Release)– One hundred exemplary North American college graduates will be chosen to teach in underprivileged communities in Israel for a 10-month service program in May 2011, Masa Israel Journey announced today.  In order to address Israel’s educational inequity and the widespread underperformance of youth in low-income communities, Masa Israel Journey and the Israeli Ministry

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Science, Medicine, & Education

StandWithUs readies pro-Israel campus counter-offensive

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) campaigners will be in for a surprise when they mount their seventh annual hate fest this spring. Pro-Israel students on campuses are ready for them. Over the past year, StandWithUs campus coordinators have worked closely with students to brainstorm about the responses that would be most effective

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USA

‘One Voice’ activists urges Palestinians, Israelis to jointly demand peace

LONDON (Press Release)–Foreign Affairs Shadow Minister Stephen Twigg joined OneVoice on Monday for an event at the House of Commons to explore whether people power has been the missing element in delivering a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. Parliamentarians and concerned citizens alike packed the Wilson Room, at Portcullis House, to firsthand witness the

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Middle East

A letter to teens

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The years have turned over and suddenly you are fifteen and eighteen years old—a young man with a 4G phone and a young woman with a car.  You have never known anything but wireless and mobility. You are living in interesting times, dear children. You have seen our

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Travel and Food

A bissel this, A bissel that … San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Col. 22, Feb. 28, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Simchas When Allison Ogul became a bat mitzvah over the weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the congregation led by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal welcomed many non-Jewish visitors, including relatives of her mother, Sharon Wilson-Ogul.  They also came from the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune, where

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi