StandWithUs praises UCI decision to suspend Muslim Student Union

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—StandWithUs, the international Israel education organization, welcomes UC Irvine’s (UCI) decision to take disciplinary action against Irvine’s Muslim Student Union (MSU), an organization that repeatedly crossed red lines to foment hostility against Israel and intimidate its supporters on campus. The MSU had claimed that its right to free speech included the right […]

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Israeli violinist and pianist to perform together June 17 in Carlsbad

By Eileen Wingard    CARLSBAD, California–Israel has supplied the world with an abundance of musical talent. In addition to many fine orchestras, topped by the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, it has been the birthplace or the nurturing ground for violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Shlomo Mintz; pianinsts Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Barenboim and others. The

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ADL congratulates U.S. on censure of Syrian U.N. diplomat

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday expressed appreciation to the United States Mission in Geneva for its condemnation of a Syrian diplomat’s statement alluding to the ancient blood libel against Jews. The League voiced outrage, however, that the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) has yet to denounce the hateful

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San Diego County’s historic places: Creation Museum, Santee

By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California—On a frontage road of State Highway 67, a building in an industrial park bears the name “Museum of Creation and Earth History.” Initially developed by the Institute for Creation Research at Christian Heritage College in neighboring El Cajon, the museum offers exhibits in support of the belief that the

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, June 11, 1954, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Shavuoth Observed By Confirmation Services at Temple and Synagogue Southwestern Jewish Press, June 11, 1954, Page 1 Confirmation Services were held last Sunday at both Temple Beth Israel and Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Known as the Season of the Giving of the Torah and the Festival of the First

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Is New York Times reporter a propagandist for Turkey?

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California-The New York Times’ headline could have been “Turkey’s Islamist Government Is Just Doing the U.S. A Favor, Wink, Wink” instead of “For Turkey, an Embrace of Iran Is a Matter of Building Bridges,” by Sabrina Tavernise. With the imprimatur “News Analysis”, the NYTs bureau chief in Istanbul, Sabrina Tavernise, with

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Six ‘women of valor’ saluted at Jewish Arts Festival

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Young playwrights Ali Viterbi, Leah Salovey and Sarah Price-Keating–saluted six San Diego “women of valor” in a Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival production on Sunday in which they and other talented actresses portrayed the women in six successive 10-minute segments. The composite sketch of female Jewry of San Diego celebrated

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Imagine what hypocrites would do without Israel to condemn

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Sometimes one wonders what the media, the pundits, the leftists, the Presbyterians, and most of Europe would all do if they did have not the Jews to examine and excoriate.  Certainly it’s a collective straight line away from their own inexhaustible layers of racial hypocrisies, inquisitions, crusades, slave-trading, and discarding-all-principles-for-oil

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Peace activists or accomplices?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Is it just me, or did you also wonder how these “peace activists” found the free time to join the mission defying Israel’s blockade? Did you also wonder how they could afford to travel the world for this purpose? Here’s the critical question: How could educated, compassionate people fail to

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