ADL lauds Nancy Brinker for anti-discrimination efforts

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the global leader of the breast cancer movement, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) during a ceremony at its National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Amb. Brinker received the ADL Americanism Award, which recognizes individuals […]

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Middle East

Six-figure sum raised at Seacrest Village gala

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) – The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities held its 32nd Annual Gala, “Cirque du Seacrest Masquerade Ball,” on Saturday, February 6, at the beautiful Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. The night was a wonderful success raising well into the six figures for residents at Seacrest Village. The evening began

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Travel and Food

Bees become addicted to caffeine and nicotine, study shows

HAIFA (Press Release)–Bees prefer nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over nectar that does not contain these substances at all, a study from the University of Haifa reveals. “This could be an evolutionary development intended, as in humans, to make the bee addicted,” states Prof. Ido Izhaki, one of the researchers who conducted

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Cantor Kathy Robbins to be guest at Temple Etz Rimon on Feb. 12

CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) —  Rabbi Karen Sherman and Guest Cantor Kathy Robbins will lead services this Friday night (February 12) to services at Temple Etz Rimon. Cantor Robbins has served as Cantor and Music Director for Temple Solel since 1984.  In 1988 she premiered Larry Zimmerman’s “Windsongs” (Transcontinental Music), which was written for her

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Woodstock 'father' Artie Kornfeld comes to LFJCC March 10

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Gotthelf Art Gallery, part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, has announced An Evening with Artie “The Father of Woodstock” Kornfeld, March 10, 2010 at 7:30pm.  Tickets are $15-$18 and are on sale now. Rock music writer &

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Travel and Food

Gallery to examine Jewish contributions to rock n' roll

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Gotthelf Art Gallery, part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, announced the new exhibition Jews Rock! A Photographic Celebration of Rock ‘n Roll’s Jewish Heritage, running March 10, 2010 – May 19, 2010.  Art is for sale, with all

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Travel and Food

Palestinians disrupt Israeli speakers in UK and US

LONDON (WJC)–British police are investigating a verbal attack on Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, after a student shouted “kill the Jews” during a talk Ayalon gave at Oxford University, in England. During the event, which was hosted by the university’s Student Union, a Muslim student got up and shouted in Arabic “Itbah Al-Yahud” –

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Proposal to grant vote to overseas Israelis stirs controversy

JERUSALEM (WJC)– The around half a million of Israeli citizens living overseas could soon get a vote in parliamentary elections. Under a bill presented by the Knesset members of  the Israel Beiteinu party, which is headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli citizens eligible to vote and holding citizenship for at least 10 years, would

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ZOA blames Chancellor Michael Drake for disruption of Ambassador Oren at UCI speech

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Michael Drake, the Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, for enabling an anti-Semitic/anti-Israel atmosphere on his campus over a period of years, which culminated yesterday evening in the repeated disruption of a campus lecture delivered by Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael

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Itzhak Perlman delivers a 'message' from Beethoven

By Eileen Wingard |SAN DIEGO–Two consecutive Sundays, I heard two great string players. The first, Violinist Itzhak Perlman, renowned, not only for his superb artistry, but for his humanity, performed January 24 at Copley Symphony Hall. The second, Violist David Aaron Carpenter, at the beginning of his concert career, presented a program at the Neuroscience

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