Ten senators call on U.S. to appeal in Mount Soledad case

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) joined Senator Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and other Senators in asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appeal a recent court ruling against the 50-year-old cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego.  On January 4th the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the cross was an unconstitutional

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Six Democratic senators seek GOP assurances they’ll reject Rand Paul’s anti-Israel proposal

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania), Chairman of the Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a group of senators Tuesday in sending a letter calling on the top Republicans on the House appropriations and budget committees to reject a call to eliminate foreign

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B’nai B’rith International calls for U.N. rejection of Palestinians’ resolution

NEW YORK (Press Release)–B’nai B’rith International strongly urges the United Nations Security Council to reject the biased resolution recently proposed by the Palestinian Authority that would single out Israeli settlements as a focus of condemnation. If necessary, the United States should employ its veto power to defeat this harmful resolution. In previous remarks, U.S. Secretary

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Middle East

Obama says he finds inspiration in Egyptian revolution

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Barack Obama briefed the American people on Tuesday about the unfolding situation in Egypt.   Here are his remarks: THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening, everybody.  Over the past few days, the American people have watched the situation unfolding in Egypt.  We’ve seen enormous demonstrations by the Egyptian people.  We’ve borne witness to the

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Squabbling in the IDF may distract Israel from dangers beyond the borders

By Rabbi Dow Marmur  JERUSALEM–People with long memories remind us that Yoav Galant isn’t the only Israeli war hero to cut legal corners; the comings and goings of Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon are often cited in this context. But Galant is the first to be punished for it. His appointment as the next IDF Chief

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Paradoxical as it sounds, the majority of this Jewish country is secular

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Despite claims to the contrary, Israel is a secular country. There is, however, a modicum of truth in the assertion that the stream of Judaism defined as orthodox exerts undue influence, both political and social, over various aspects of life in Israel. Notwithstanding, the majority of Israelis remain doggedly secular,

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1955, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Deceased Southwestern Jewish Press, September 30, 1955, Page 5 Ida Lipinsky, a resident of San Diego for 28 years, passed away on September 19th. She was a member of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the Daughters of Israel, the City of Hope, Birdie Stodel B.B., the Eastern Star, Jolly 16,

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Lise Lindstrom soars as “Turandot” and that’s for starters

SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s Turandot is the gift that keeps on giving that found this opera lovers heart pounding from the first sounds of conductor Edoardo Müller’s detail to Puccini’s music in leading the San Diego Opera Orchestra, to the exceptional way the large chorus, including a long procession of

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Wiesenthal Center calls on Germany to release post-war files on Nazis

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Simon Wiesenthal Center called upon the German authorities to make a final effort to bring to justice two convicted but unpunished Nazi war criminals living in Germany and to open the files of the BND (German Secret Service) regarding the postwar escape of notorious Holocaust perpetrators. In an op-ed piece published Monday in

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Another guilty plea in Modesto synagogue and church vandalism

FRESNO, California (Press Release) – Andrew Kerber, 22, of Chico, Calif., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill in Fresno, Calif., to violating the civil rights of congregants of Congregation Beth Shalom, a synagogue in Modesto, Calif. According to court documents, on or about Feb. 2, 2006, Kerber and two other men, Abel Mark

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