ADL urges University of Johannesburg to retain relationship with Ben Gurion University

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Oct. 4, called on the University Council of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa to “make a stand for academic freedom and fairness” and reaffirm its relationship with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and reject a “falsehood-filled campaign” to politicize a […]

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Travel and Food

Holocaust scholar to inaugurate AJE lecture series in Carlsbad

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. His lecture

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Sherman says campus anti-Semitism may soon be ruled a violation of students’ civil rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has reported to Congressman Brad Sherman about the progress that the Department of Education is making on the issue of whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus. “I’m extremely encouraged as a result of my conversation with Secretary Duncan,”

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USA

U.S. State Department explains its travel alert for Europe

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management in the U.S. State Department, spoke on a conference telephone call to reporters on Sunday about the department’s Europe Travel Alert. See Europe Travel Alert OPERATOR: Thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are going to be in a listen-only mode. During the question-and-answer session,

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 18, 1955, Part 4

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Ben Snyder Leads Jewish War Veterans Southwestern Jewish Press, March 18, 1955, Page 7 In their annual election of officers held March 2 and the War Memorial Bldg., San Diego Post 185 elected the following officers: Commander, Ben Snyder; Vice Commanders, Sidney Steckel, John Kluchen; Finance Officer, J.

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Danny Yatom, a former Mossad chief, to address Friends of IDF in San Diego Oct. 30

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – A former head of Israel’s Mossad security service, Maj. Gen. Danny Yatom, will be the featured speaker at a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces kosher dinner on Saturday, Oct. 30, at La Jolla Hilton Torrey Pines, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road.   A reception will begin at 7:15 p.m. with dinner

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Middle East

Author Laurel Corona to make rounds of San Diego area bookstores

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Laurel Corona, whose book, Penelope’s Daughter has its official release on Tuesday, Oct 5, will be making the rounds of local bookstores to tell how she created a new daughter for Penelope and Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, Corona, a frequent contributor to San Diego Jewish

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Travel and Food

Nautilus research vessel finds ‘oasis’ in the deep sea

HAIFA (Press Release)–The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi Ben Avraham, discovered for the first time an area of reefs with deep-sea corals in the Mediterranean, offshore of Israel. This area apparently stretches over a few kilometers,

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 18, 1955, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Harbor Development (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, March 18, 1955, Page 5 Port commerce means dollars and jobs. A thriving Port of San Diego is one logical way to bring new dollars into this community  It means, simply, capitalizing on a long standing asset of the region—San Diego Bay.

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Adventures in SD History

Memoir tells horrors facing a Jewish POW in German camp

The Night I Got Killed by Samuel “Sy” Brenner as told to Abraham J. Shragge, self published, ISBN 978-0-557-68964-4, Price not listed, available via www.sybrenner.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –With Veterans Day slightly more than a month away, Sy Brenner finally has the pleasure of seeing his remarkable memoir in print—thanks to the

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Travel and Food

Settling refugee issue is paramount in Mideast

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  The century-old Arab-Israeli conflict provides a vivid and tragic illustration of this observation. In the last 60 years, a dozen U.S. presidents,Democrats and Republicans,  and more than a dozen of Israeli Prime

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Middle East