Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Plans for 300 Year Celebration In Making Southwestern Jewish Press, September 17, Page 1 Mayor John D. Butler this week took official cognizance of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America and issued a Tercentenary proclamation. The proclamation states that the theme of the observance, man’s opportunities […]

By Jay Tell  ENCINO, California–Just when you’re on top of the world, you get blindsided. I was 21, in LA two years, my stamp and coin business was growing. I’d not smoked, but tried cigarillos. In the mirror I saw tiny specks on my chest, tried to flick off the dust, but it didn’t budge.

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth