Ceremonies mark beginning of construction of Sha'ar Hanegev's protected school

  SIGNERS–Clockwise, they are Barbara Sherman, Steve Morris, Alon Schuster and Aharale Rothstein {Ulla Hadar photo} By Ulla Hadar SHA’AR HANEGEV, Israel — With tractors due to roll onto the property the next day to begin construction of the Sha’ar Hanegev Educational Village, representatives of the municipality, school administration and the United Jewish Federation of […]

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Orthodox in Israel struggle with allegations of sexual abuse by Rabbi Elon

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An Orthodox rabbi appeared on a prime time television news program to explain his rationale as one of numerous rabbis who signed a statement reiterating that sexual relations between men was a violation of the Torah, but indicating that homosexuals should be welcome in the community of believers. They should be allowed

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

San Diego Jewish Film Festival Preview: ‘The Wave’

By Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California–The Wave, a feature-length film made in Germany in 2008 and scheduled to be screened at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday)  the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, dramatizes the events of a real Palo Alto high school teaching experiment conducted in 1969.  The events were first featured in a 1981 American

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Full-length documentary needs to be encyclopedic in length to cover Greenspun’s span

 QUESTION PERIOD—Brian Greenspun and Scott Goldstein listen to a question posed by an audience member at San Diego Jewish Film Festival Tuesday, Feb. 16, at Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla, California _________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story introduced to attendees of the San Diego Jewish

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

U.S. Admiral Mullen praises Israel's humanitarian efforts in Haiti

TEL AVIV (WJC)–Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and as such the highest military official in the United States, met in Tel Aviv with members of the IDF’s humanitarian delegation to Haiti. He told the Israeli soldiers: “The important work you did with your delegation will not be forgotten, not by

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Middle East, USA

Vatican, 'Pave the Way' to post some WWII documents

VATICAN CITY (WJC)– The Vatican is planning to post selected documents from its World War II archives on the internet, according to the Catholic news agency ‘Zenit’. The move came at the initiative of Pave the Way Foundation, a US-based group that promotes inter-religious dialogue and strives to defend wartime Pope Pius XII from allegations that

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Travel and Food

Iran's human rights record receives scathing U.N. review

GENEVA (WJC)–During a debate at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Iran has tried to brush aside allegations that it regularly resorts to torture, executions and mass detentions of opponents of the regime and claimed instead that it promotes and defends human rights. Iran is “in full compliance with the relevant international commitments it has

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USA

Schmooze and News of San Diego-area Jews

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Emails, phone calls and snail mail–an editor never knows what the day will bring.  Here’s the most recent sampling: POLITICS—The Republican candidacy of former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch in the 51st Congressional District has prompted incumbent Bob Filner, chairman of the House Veteran Affairs Committee, to caution supporters that “there

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Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison

SPME protests expulsion of Ariel University Center from Spanish solar competition

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Press Release)–Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) has issued a statement signed by 9 Nobel Laureates and 3,100 faculty members from 33 countries condemning the expulsion of Ariel University Center from the 2010 Solar Decathlon in Spain and requesting reinstatement. Many of the academics who signed this statement, including scholars from

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Middle East

7th graders to lead Megillah reading at Etz Rimon

CARLSBAD (Press Release)–Temple Etz Rimon’s Friday Night service Feb 26th will feature the 7th graders leading much of the service including reading of the Megillah. Congregants and children are asked to come in costume and be prepared to cheer the hero, and boo the villian.  Groggers will be provided.  More details available from the congregation

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San Diego Calendar

Democracies in U.S., Israel tend to pull politicians to the center

By Rabbi Dow Marmur  JERUSALEM –We may be forgiven if we decide that it almost doesn’t matter which political party is in power because the policies of them all end up being uncannily similar. Thus the softly-softly approach of President Obama that characterized his first year in office is becoming almost as tough as that

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Middle East, USA