VIENNA (WJC)–The Leopold Museum has settled a decade-long legal dispute over the restitution of a painting looted from a Jewish woman during the Nazi era. In order to keep the painting, the museum agreed to pay US$ 19 million to the estate of the late Lea Bondi Jaray and gave permission for it to be
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The sky is not falling. Today. After a week or so of panic following the encounter with the Turkish flotilla, nastiness from the peaks of the Turkish government, conventional censures from the United Nations and NGOs, and shrill comments of “We told you so” from J Street types, more conventional economics and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO–Earlier this month we celebrated our Independence Day. My thoughts brought me to the importance of American music, and the shameful neglect we have allowed music education to be. Part of this was stimulated by an article in the editorial section of the San Diego Union-Tribune by John M. Eger, on
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Personals Southwestern Jewish Press, October 1, 1954, Page 3 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shapov of Chula Vista left Monday, Sept. 13 for a month’s tour of Mexico. They will visit Mexico City and other spots of interest below the border. * We’re glad to welcome back from Oceanside,
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By Cynthia Citron CALABASAS, California – Picture the Blue Man Group covered in mud. That’s a first impression of the Orto-Da Theatre Group, a sensational ensemble of actors from Israel making their American debut last week at the International Theatre Festival in Calabasas. Their presentation is called “Stones,” and, like the Blue Men, they work without words, completely in mime. “Stones” was created and directed by Yinon Tzafrir, who
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Cynthia Citron, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maybe it was just stylistic; maybe it was more. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro’s speech touting the United States as Israel’s best friend repeated itself: Israel’s future as a secure, Jewish, and democratic state is under threat from the dynamics of demography, ideology, and technology. The
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Middle EastBy Richard S. Gordon NEW YORK– There have been a number of questions over the last few days concerning the status of the American Jewish Congress. Allow me to clarify those questions. Over the last number of years, and especially after Bernie Madoff stole approximately $21 million from our organization, the AJ Congress, like many
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Saying it would “trample on the memory” of World War II labor and concentration camp victims, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned a march, planned for July 31 in Vaivara, Estonia, to honor an Estonian division of the Nazi SS that fought in a 1944 battle against Soviet troops. Abraham H.
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–A scientific breakthrough might assist in the fight against mosquitoes. New research carried out at the University of Haifa in collaboration with researchers from other universities has chemically identified, for the first time, compounds released by mosquitoes’ natural aquatic predators that function as warning signals for egg laying mosquitoes. Introducing these natural chemicals
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Ronn Torossian NEW YORK–On Tisha Be’av the saddest Jewish day of the year, I commemorated the destruction of the temple. On days of lamentation, I often think of scary things, and I believe that the State of Israel is in real danger because of their flawed Public Relations and communications work. As a proud
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Tickets Go On Sale For Mrs. F.D.R. Talk Southwestern Jewish Press, October 1, 1954, Pages 1, 8 Invitations have been mailed this week inviting members of the Jewish community to participate as “Patrons” in presenting Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 11th at 8 p.m. Patrons, besides receiving
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Adventures in SD History, Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Curious how both an Orthodox Jewish leader and a Jewish gay-rights activist can be equally tactless and insulting? Toronto’s Elle Flanders joined the city’s Pride Parade as spokesperson for Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to bash Israel. Jewish organizations protested her group’s inclusion in the parade, and parade sponsor Pride Toronto initially banned
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–A festival celebrating writer and humorist Mark Twain and such other 19th century writers as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edgar Allan Poe has been scheduled 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, August 21, at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Games, Punch n’ Judy puppet
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By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — I’ve never been in Tel Aviv or Haifa for Tisha B’Av, but my guess is that it probably doesn’t feel too much different than Tisha B’Av in Seattle–a few hardy souls sitting on the floor of their synagogues in the evening and then spending the day itself struggling to
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA