Compiled by Gail Umeham Desert Trip Planned By Zionist Group Southwestern Jewish Press March 19, 1954 Page 6 The spring weather in the offing and the lovely spring flowers it will bring to the desert has led the Ben Zvi Young Adult Branch of the Labor Zionist Organization to plan a trip to the desert, […]
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_________________________________________ By Lynne Thrope DEL MAR, California–First, there was the book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal (2001), then the movie Food, Inc. (2008). With so much attention on diet, chemicals in our food sources, and the hope for healthier alternative food choices, emerges Brandt Beef, the 100% natural beef from
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Criticizing the Obama administration’s decision to charge accused Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal court system, members of Congress are calling for legislation requiring intelligence officials to be consulted about how to handle terrorism suspects after their capture, arguing that options other than the criminal justice system should
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, Independent-Connecticut., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, Republican-Maine., urged the Obama Administration Monday to move Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from civilian to military custody because he is an enemy combatant and should be detained, interrogated and ultimately charged as such. Abdulmutallab, who is
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –No, not the conductor, Otto Klemperer, but his cousin, Viktor, Professor of Romance Languages at Dresden University. Most of Viktor’s extended family had left Germany for the US well before 1939, but Viktor had no children, was married to a non-Jew, had fought in the German army in the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–In the first two weeks following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, nearly 70 individuals and families who partner with the Jewish Community Foundation for their giving immediately stepped up and recommended almost $102,000 in grants to provide immediate assistance to victims. Schools, hospitals and thousands of homes have been destroyed and more
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–One of my internet friends objects to my calling Europe the enlightened continent. “What in the blazes are you talking about.? Europe, the hot-bed of modern antisemitism…enlightened? The Netherlands with a de facto, maybe de jure euthanasia policy! France being so overrun with rebellious Muslims that there are scores of areas throughout the country
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Releazse)– EL AL Israel Airlines turned one New York woman’s panic into relief after a forgotten backpack containing $50,000 worth of jewelry and irreplaceable business documents was discovered and safely returned by EL AL employees. Upon arrival from Israel into JFK International Airport, the EL AL passenger accidentally left her backpack at
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Middle East, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Has the almond tree developed a unique way of drawing potential pollinators? A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an
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JNF DELEGATION–A delegation inspected rainwater harvesting facilities at Kibbutz Shoval in the Negev Desert as part of a Jewish National Fund tour spotlighting Israel’s critical water issues _____________________________________________________ By Ulla Hadar SDEROT, Israel — Almost two years have passed since my second visit to San Diego. At that time, editor Don Harrison of San Diego
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Middle EastBy David Amos SAN DIEGO–The next series of concerts by the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will be on Sunday, January 31, and Tuesday, February 2, and the theme will be Humor in Classical Music. Comedy in classical music can be a delicate commodity. What is funny to some people may be blasphemy to music purists,
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By Randy Fadem LA JOLLA, California–The film Bruriah, to be shown Feb. 14 and Feb. 21 at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, portrays a modern rendering of the Parable of Temptation and Sin that legend assigns to Talmudic Sage Bruriah and her weak-minded husband, Rabbi Meir. The historic Bruriah was a daughter of one
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM, Jan. 26–We may be forgiven if, when we read reports about anti-Semitism around the world, we’re tempted to conclude that many Israelis regard it as good news for at least two reasons: a vindication for living in Israel and a promise of continued aliyah, which Israelis love (even when they
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 20th Anniversary San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 10-21, 2010. Once again the festival will feature the Joyce Forum – A Day
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