Anti-Israel Advocacy Becomes Issue in La Mesa City Council Race

A political action group calling itself San Diegans Against Hate has come out in opposition to La Mesa City Council candidate Mejgan Afshan, describing her anti-Israel positions as antisemitic.  Afshan, daughter of Afghan refugees, was invited via her campaign website to respond on Wednesday, Oct. 19, by San Diego Jewish World, but had not done so by late afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 20. [Donald H. Harrison]

Anti-Israel Advocacy Becomes Issue in La Mesa City Council Race Read More »

Donald H. Harrison, Israel, San Diego County, USA

Israeli Elections 2022: A Rundown of Parties and Leaders

By David Isaac (JNS) 1. Benjamin Netanyahu – Likud Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and now head of the opposition, will attempt to win his sixth term as premier. Even his enemies acknowledge his political gifts and strong grasp of economics. He is credited with transforming Israel’s heavily regulated economy into a capitalist, high-tech

Israeli Elections 2022: A Rundown of Parties and Leaders Read More »

Israel, Middle East

Howard Stern Compares Kanye West to Hitler Over Antisemitic Comments

Published by BANG Showbiz English Howard Stern has compared Kanye West to Hitler over his antisemitic comments. The 45-year-old rapper has insisted he doesn’t regret threatening to go “DEFCON 3 on Jewish people” during a series of controversial social media posts, although he did apologise for causing “hurt and confusion” with his words. Speaking on

Howard Stern Compares Kanye West to Hitler Over Antisemitic Comments Read More »

Jewish Celebrities

What the ‘No-Go Zones’ for Jews at Berkeley Law School Reveal About Pro-Palestinian Activism

(JNS) When Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law promoted a bylaw that would create what critics have characterized as “no-go zones for Jews,” it may not have anticipated the thunderous and widespread denunciation it has since experienced for its toxic and radical tactic to marginalize and

What the ‘No-Go Zones’ for Jews at Berkeley Law School Reveal About Pro-Palestinian Activism Read More »

California, Israel, Opinion, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

What’s Israel Got to Do, Got to Do with Sexism and Homophobia?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps these students had not advanced far enough in law school to recognize that the murder of women and gays is, well, murder. Otherwise, the Women of Berkeley Law would most certainly have rallied against the “honor killings” of women that ravage the Arab world, and the Queer Caucus

What’s Israel Got to Do, Got to Do with Sexism and Homophobia? Read More »

Bruce Ticker, California, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Parashat Bereishit: Beginning Anew With the Right Mindset

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — With Bereishit We Begin Learning Torah… With our holiday season behind us, we begin anew by recounting the Seven Days of Creation, reading the story of the very first Shabbat – Hashem’s Shabbat. This experience with the right mindset, brings a deep sense of gratitude, comfort, awe,

Parashat Bereishit: Beginning Anew With the Right Mindset Read More »

Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Will ‘Jewish Women in Time and Torah’ Stimulate Change in the Orthodox World?

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Urim Publications and Ktav Publishing in Jerusalem and New York have just republished Jewish Women in Time and Torah. It focuses on three periods of time in how Judaism treated women: (1) The early period of more than a thousand years until around the beginning of

Will ‘Jewish Women in Time and Torah’ Stimulate Change in the Orthodox World? Read More »

Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Following Hitler Poster at Carmel Valley Middle School, ADL Working to ‘Remedy Any Incidents of Hate and Bigotry’

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — ADL San Diego released the following statement on a recent incident at Carmel Valley Middle School: ADL San Diego is well aware of and has been in touch with the person who reported the incident and the school since it was initially reported. What follows is a list of the

Following Hitler Poster at Carmel Valley Middle School, ADL Working to ‘Remedy Any Incidents of Hate and Bigotry’ Read More »

San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Campus Antisemites Seek to Purge Zionism, Jewish Identity

The implementation of what amounts to a litmus test of ideological allegiance—only targeted at Jews who support Israel—is grotesque but part of a decades-old campaign to malign Israel and transform it into a pariah state, while excluding its supporters from progressive groups because Israel, it is falsely alleged, is an apartheid, racist regime of white supremacy that continues to oppress innocent brown Arabs who were the actual indigenous residents of the land now called Israel.  [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]

Campus Antisemites Seek to Purge Zionism, Jewish Identity Read More »

California, Israel, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish Poets/ Jewish Voices’ New Season Begins Oct. 25

The opening Jewish Poets–Jewish Voices program of the 2022-23 season will feature three local poets who immigrated to San Diego from other countries. The Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 p.m. gathering will take place in person in the Astor Judaica Library and feature Ukrainian native Jane Muschenetz, Uzbekistan-born Nathan Grinshpun,  and Tel Avivian, Omer Zalmanowitz. [Eileen Wingard]

Jewish Poets/ Jewish Voices’ New Season Begins Oct. 25 Read More »

Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, International, San Diego County, USA