By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO-I did my neighborly duty and helped my neighbors celebrate Christmas on Sunday night. For our immediate neighborhood, we have an annual “Holiday Lights” judging party, in which families get together for an hour, roam the neighborhood together and judge the light displays. Yes, holiday lights as several neighbors tried to […]
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–A new poll has revealed that 61% of Americans support the United States coming to the military defense of Israel if it strikes Iranian nuclear facilities and Iran retaliates. The December Survey of The Israel Project, carried out during December 14-16, also found that 51% of Americans favor military strikes by the
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SAN DIEGO — Shoshi Bogoch, the new Israeli emissary or shlicha assigned to the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County submitted some recipes reflecting her mixed Ashkenazic-Sephardic background to A Taste of Hebrew Day School recipe book now on sale for $18. One recipe, which might have been made by the German Jewish side
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By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO–The Guardian of Great Britain called the recently completed Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, “the biggest environmental meeting in history.” But the final result is an agreement that calls for monitoring emissions but neither sets a target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and no deadline for reaching a formal international climate treaty.
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)—Recent press reports rehashing an interview from 10 years ago regarding the practices at Abu Kabir forensic institute have no relation to the false accusations that appeared this past August in the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet. In the 2000 interview, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, then head of the Abu Kabir facility, acknowledged that body
By Jeanette Friedman NEW YORK–Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Prof. Elie Wiesel and New York Governor David Patterson participated in the installation of Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier, spiritual leader of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, to his new post as President of The New York Board of Rabbis. Congregants and well-wishers packed the East 62th Street sanctuary on the seventh night
NEW YORK… In an effort to lure young people into the white supremacist movement, neo-Nazis are using deceptive new tactics to appeal directly to high school and college students through advertisements in their school newspapers, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which actively monitors neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. One scheme hatched by neo-Nazi Kevin
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Travel and FoodHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Students of the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa have produced a series of short videos campaigning for the release of Gilad Shalit and to enroll volunteers in “Gilad’s Army of Friends”. The campaign, which can now be viewed on the Internet, was carried out as part
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By Randy Fadem POWAY– Holocaust Survivor and Jewish Educator Rita Ross recently told an audience at Temple Adat Shalom that her entire nuclear family was able to survive the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland, which was a highly unusual outcome for those caught up in the Shoah. Ross was concluding a speaking tour to
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Travel and FoodENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities is excited to announce its 32nd Annual Gala, “Cirque du Seacrest Masquerade Ball,” which will take place on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at the beautiful Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. Honorary Co-Chairs Esther and Bud Fischer are pleased to lead this year’s
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Compiled by Gail Umeham ** Still Time to Enroll In Speech Class Southwestern Jewish Press February 6, 1954 Page 5 Esther Siegel announces that the adult class in Practical Public Speaking will meet Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Mary Kantor, 4417 Braeburn Road. The course offers training in general speech
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Adventures in SD History, Travel and FoodEthan Bronner, “Weighing Netanyahu as a Peacemaker,” in New York Times Dean Calbraith, “Sol Price valued his workers over stockholders,” in San Diego Union-Tribune Helen Gao, “Library’s Secret Treasure: Wangenheim Room,” in San Diego Union Tribune Blair Grubb, “It Should Again See Light,” on Chabad.org. (Thanks to Phyllis Kahn for spotting it) Donald H. Harrison,
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israeli authorities could soon use special commando units, unmanned spy planes and cell phone-jamming equipment to enforce a moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank, military officials said on Sunday. Enraged settlers leaders vowed to resist the plan, prompting Defense Minister Ehud Barak to warn that settlers would face the full wrath of
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Middle EastRAMALLAH, Palestinian Authority (WJC)–Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed media reports that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered him Israeli land near the Gaza Strip in exchange for settlement blocs that Israel wanted to annex after a peace deal with the Palestinians. Abbas said that the proposed swap would have given the Palestinians
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