StandWithUs will meet anti-Israel flotilla with counter flotilla off Gaza coast

ASHDOD, Israel (Press Release)–Self-styled European human rights activists will be in for a big surprise this weekend when their eight boats try to illegally land on the coast of Gaza to break what they call Israel’s “illegal Israeli blockade” of the Gaza Strip.  “We will be there with our own flotilla of boats and signs […]

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Travel and Food

A Wedding: New Connections, Old Reconnections

By  Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–The phone rings, it’s my daughter. “Mom, what are you wearing to the wedding?” “Remember the lovely two-piece, grey silk dress I wore at your daughter’s Bat Mitzvah?” “Mom, she was thirteen, she’s thirty-one!” “Oh,” I said. “It’s vintage!” And so I wore that dress at my grandson’s wedding

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Travel and Food

A special dinner for America's wounded veterans

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Long time readers know, and have generously supported, Fran O’Brien’s dinners for soldiers, primarily amputees, recovering from their wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital. The dinners, which take place outside of the hospital, began in 2004 and offer recovering soldiers a chance to socialize, eat a

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Irena Sendler wins posthumous ADL award for hiding Jewish children during Shoah

WARSAW,  Poland  (Press Release)–Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her heroism in risking her life to save others. The ADL Courage to Care Award, which honors rescuers of Jews during the

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Middle East

Illegal immigration is a problem throughout the world

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Immigration is again a hot button in the United States, with attractions for demagogues of right and left. The President has ordered 1,200 National Guard personnel sent to border areas of the Southwest, in response to other politicians demanding that something be done. The targets of this effort are illegal drug shipments

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Rabbi criticizes Lieberman's support for repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

MONSEY, N.Y. (Press Release)–Orthodox Jews will be among religious leaders and pro-family activists converging on Washington DC on Thursday to protest the latest efforts to hastily repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the House of Representatives. Chief among their concerns are the ways that changes in the armed services rules would seriously compromise religious liberty

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USA

Jan Tuttleman to be installed as UJF San Diego board chair June 10

 SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The United Jewish Federation of San Diego County will be electing and installing new officers and directors, including new Board Chair Jan Tuttleman. Tuttleman is a renowned philanthropist, graduate of LEAD San Diego and holds an MBA and Ph. D.  in microbiology. She is also a leader and prominent member of San

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San Diego Calendar

Jewish organizations' policies on same-sex marriage questioned

Editor, San Diego Jewish World: While having lunch this past Sunday at the Grand Del Mar (a Manchester property ) one of the people at the table mentioned that Manchester’s properties were being blacklisted by the UJF and Seacrest (Village Retirement Home) over his support for Proposition 8 (the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriages

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Travel and Food

North Korea threatens to reactivate war with South Korea

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–It was North Korea that torpedoed a South Korean submarine-an internationally recognized act of war that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It wasn’t an accident. As follow-on, North Korea announced that any act of retaliation by the South would be considered a provocation. When the South Korean

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

San Diego’s Historic Places: Natural History Museum’s dinosaur exhibit

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A visit to the dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum of San Diego can provide the so-called mighty human with a humbling perspective. Creatures in the air, on land and in the sea all might have regarded him as nothing more than a tasty lunch. Luckily for man, he

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education