SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — To mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Jewish Federation of San Diego has joined 40 community organizations across the country partnering with national funders, organizations and stakeholders to raise money to support the 25,000 Holocaust survivors living in poverty in the United States. “This is an inspiring opportunity, which builds […]
Editor’s note: Rabbi Eric Ertel has shared the following message regarding the San Diego Jewish Experience’s 2023 Campaign: The San Diego Jewish Experience is having its most impactful year to date. Now that student life is back to normal, SAJE has been able to meet and form strong bonds with record breaking numbers of students
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Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, San Diego County
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are said to have demanded that son Yair stop posting on social media, and avoid speaking with politicians. Apparently, those demands came after Yair ignited tensions within Israel and overseas, especially with the United States. Whatever? Yair was last seen walking
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It happened in Berlin, of all places. On behalf of those poor Palestinians, they chanted “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Israel” and “Tel Aviv, the answer will come.” The day before, an Italian tourist was murdered on Tel Aviv’s boardwalk and a woman and two of her daughters
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Bruce Ticker, International, Israel, Opinion
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Sharaka, a non-governmental initiative that grows the impact of the Abraham Accords by transforming the vision of people-to-people peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors into a reality, brought 22 Arab participants to this year’s International March of the Living in Poland as part of a first-of-its-kind year-long program that promotes
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Who among us is so pure as to never speak lashon hora? Who among us doesn’t exclude others? Who among us is so out of touch with oneself as to naively believe that s/he always promotes achdus within our community? Rav Yisrael Salanter explained why the portions
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Published by Reuters By Hannah Confino and Rami Amichay Tel Aviv (Reuters) – Esther Paran navigated her way in a wheelchair through the throngs of Israelis marching through Tel Aviv in protest at government plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system. She was pushed by an aide. She did not bang on drums or yell
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Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The social and political climate in the United States has become fertile ground for antisemitism in recent years, according to a report released on Monday by advocacy group Anti-Defamation League and the Tel Aviv University. Expressions of hatred against Jews have become “mainstreamed and normalized,” and
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Something that never ceases to amaze (and annoy) me is the extent to which various euphemisms are used to describe what happened in the Holocaust to 6 million Jews. Why is everyone — whether individuals, politicians or scholars — so reluctant to use the correct term: murder? For
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Holocaust, International, Opinion
San Diegan Eric Kaufmann is an executive coach who teaches managers, team leaders and executives that they need to utilize three essential elements of their personalities to achieve success: their wisdom, love and power. To actualize these qualities, he writes, one must correct one’s “ego myopia—the inability to recognize and manage your ego.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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We offer these tidbits from the weekend and Monday news involving members of the Jewish community [Donald H. Harrison]
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — More than 300 people gathered April 16 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center to mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event was hosted by Jewish Federation of San Diego and included a video honoring 70 years of Holocaust survivors in San Diego. A panel discussion featured a Holocaust
By Mark D. Zimmerman Al Jaffee died last week at the age of 102. Jaffee was one of “The Usual Gang of Idiots” who wrote and produced Mad Magazine under the leadership of editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines. Mad Magazine’s humor had a very Jewish slant, including regular use of Yiddish and faux-Yiddish
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Holocaust did not simply end the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. Survivors torn from their homes, their families, and their health, needed to be nursed back into physical and mental health and resettled in countries where they would be accepted and given a chance to reconstruct their lives. One San Diegan who was intimately involved in this process was Army Lt. Al Hutler, a Jew whose compassionate administration of a Displaced Persons camp helped thousands of people make those adjustments. After leaving the Army, Hutler moved to San Diego where he served as the executive director of the Jewish Federation from 1946 to 1958. He was among those San Diegans who put out the welcoming mat for the survivors of the Nazi scourge. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, San Diego County