By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — The latest round of violence in Israel began last week, when Israeli security forces killed 10 Palestinians in a raid on Jenin, said to be focused on Palestinians planning a raid on Israeli targets. According to Palestinian reports, one of the dead was an elderly woman. On the eve […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion
It was abundantly clear during Supervisor Nathan Fletcher’s presentation and the testimony of various members of the Jewish community at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 24, that a permanent Holocaust museum in San Diego is desired. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish History, Opinion, San Diego County
By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — On Friday, as we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Federation of San Diego County has an eye toward the future. We are proud and excited to announce a new partnership with San Diego’s local group of Holocaust Survivors, the New Life Club, on several important care and legacy
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Heidi Gantwerk, Holocaust, Opinion, San Diego County
Published by Reuters UK By Tilman Blasshofer LUDWIGSBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s top Nazi hunter, Thomas Will, is hopeful of securing further convictions over the Holocaust even as the remaining suspects, many now in their late 90s, die. Will told Reuters that he has handed over five cases to local prosecutors in Germany that he
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Holocaust
By Jerry Klinger Touristing — better known as cultural travel, especially historical travel to see the places of events, and meaning to the American experience, preferably without resentful teenagers — is great. A fun thing to do in Florida is to visit historical lighthouses. There are big ones, short one, white ones, red ones, and
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USA
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Just before the holidays, I was looking for some ideas for my next column when I started feeling unusually tired. A blood draw at the clinic showed an unexpected loss of forty percent of my hemoglobin requiring a trip to the ER. Now I had my
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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — There have been 40 mass shooting in the United States in the first 26 days of 2023. We need to give up trying to regulate guns. Instead, if you can’t beat them, shoot them! We should rename the country the Unrestrained Shooters of America not only to keep the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by Reuters UK By Rami Amichay BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (Reuters) – Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi-allied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by a lost sandal which made her miss her place on a passenger ship shortly before it was bombed. A lifetime
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Holocaust
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — As Jewish Federation of San Diego County marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, it does so with an eye toward the future: The Federation is now partnering with San Diego’s local group of Holocaust Survivors, the New Life Club, on several exciting care and legacy initiatives. The New
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The third parasha in Exodus, Bo, frequently mistranslated as “go,” despite meaning “come,” tell the last three of the 10 plagues, God gives the Israelites the first of the 613 commandments concerning the Jewish calendar, a law that seems to be crystal clear, but Jewish tradition
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
(JNS) A documentary that reconstructs the lives of Holocaust survivors Lottie and Howard Marcus, who made the largest-ever charitable donation to an institution based in Israel, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival next month. “Who Are the Marcuses?” reveals the mystery behind an unassuming couple from Great Neck, N.Y., with a passion
Published by Radar Online Kanye West planned to travel to Australia to meet his new wife Bianca Censori’s family but his antisemitic past has put the entire trip in jeopardy, RadarOnline.com has learned. Sources claim that West and Censori are planning to fly to Melbourne next week. As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the two secretly wed
Published by Reuters UK BERLIN (Reuters) – A group of Jewish students and an anti-hate speech association have filed a legal complaint against Twitter at a German court, they said on Wednesday, arguing the company did not remove anti-Semitic content. The European Union of Jewish Students and HateAid criticised what they described as a lack
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Travel and Food
On a cold December day in occupied Paris in 1940, a large group lined up at the Nazi commandant’s office. Jews stood waiting to be registered, anxious for their lives. In the crowd was a thin, tall old man with a bulging, high forehead, a shallow chin and a small mustache. After waiting for hours in the cold, he caught a bad cold, caught pneumonia, and died on January 3, 1941. He died in the very town in which he had been born 80 years earlier. Registered by the Nazis, the old Jew was one of France’s most famous men, Professor Henri Bergson of the Collège de France, member of the French Academy of Sciences, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the Pantheon there is an inscription on one of the columns: “To Henri Bergson, a philosopher whose life and work have done honor to France and to human thought. [Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History