San Diego Jewish World

Violence down, hate speech up against Jews

April 18, 2018

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Anti-Semitic violence around the world dropped 9% from 2016 to 2017, but a “dramatic increase” of all other forms of anti-Semitic manifestations, including harassment and hate speech, has raised increasingly “grave concerns among Jews regarding their security and the continuation of communal life,” according to an annual report from Tel […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

MDA provides snacks for IDF soldiers

April 18, 2018

SDEROT, Israel (Press Release) — MDA (Magen David Adom) volunteers took time from saving lives and on the eve of Memorial Day and Independence Day went to distribute over 1,000 packages of snacks to soldiers who are stationed along the Gaza border, and Gush Etzion. The volunteers met the Golani and Tank Corps soldiers, and

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Middle East

Find your lost soul with The Wanderers

April 18, 2018

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Who really understands whether or not they are happy?” How do you know when you’ve found your bashert, the soulmate you were destined to share your life with? Some say you just know. But how do you find that one special person? Do you really have to share

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Non- fiction book profiles 15 Israeli inventions

April 17, 2018

Thou Shalt innovate: How Israeli ingenuity Repairs the World by Avi Jorisch; © 2018; Gefen Publishing; ISBN 9789652-299345; 176 pages with 90 additional pages of acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Discover a problem; figure out how to fix it; create a company to market your solution; and in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

RJC mourns death of Barbara Bush

April 17, 2018

WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) — The Republican Jewish Coalition issued the following statement on Tuesday from National Chairman, Senator Norm Coleman: We are saddened by the passing of former First Lady Barbara Bush. On behalf of the Republican Jewish Coalition, we send our thoughts and prayers to President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, and

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USA

60 Senate and House members salute Israel’s 70th

April 17, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Israeli-American Council hosted more than 60 Democratic and Republican members of Congress during a special luncheon at the Library of Congress on Tuesday to mark the 70th birthday of the state of Israel. Featured attendees at the event included House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

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Middle East, USA

Strike successful on Syria’s chemical weapons

April 17, 2018

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was either very brave or very foolish to adopt the “Mission Accomplished” slogan that hung behind President George W. Bush as he stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the early days of the Iraq war. Although the President never used those words, they were indelibly

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

The monster is in your car

April 17, 2018

Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — I was recently in Beverly Hills. All right, I thought that might be the problem. But when I had the same experience in La Mesa, well, I thought something’s really wrong with what I was seeing. In both cases, I was following a beautiful SUV’s, one a Lincoln and

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Michael Mantell, Travel and Food

California Assembly observes Yom HaShoah

April 16, 2018

SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — The California State Assembly honored Holocaust survivors, descendants of survivors, and World War II liberators residing throughout the state during its annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on Monday “As we remember the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, it is alarming to learn that

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Jewish History, USA

Jewish trivia quiz: James Comey

April 16, 2018

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Former FBI Director James Comey has been in the headlines almost constantly since the 2016 presidential campaign. President Donald Trump just tweeted that “Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Biography of Jerusalem has its agenda

April 16, 2018

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Simon Sebag-Montefiore brings impeccable credentials to the monumental task of writing Jerusalem: The Biography. A history Ph.D. from Cambridge, he has been a banker and a foreign correspondent reporting on, among other events, the fall of the Soviet Union. He is also the great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore, the international

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

BGU accepts flag by Israel’s Betsy Ross

April 16, 2018

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — In honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, American Associates, an Israeli flag created by Rebecca Affachiner, often called “the Betsy Ross of Israel,” has been donated to the Ben-Gurion Archives at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on the Sede Boqer Campus. Rebecca Affachiner

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Jewish History, Middle East

Censoring Holocaust memory

April 16, 2018

Editor’s Note This is a transcript of Edwin Black’s April 11, 2018 keynote address in the Michigan Capitol Rotunda for that state’s official Holocaust Commemoration. By Edwin Black LANSING, Michigan — Today, I come not just to mourn nor to scorn but rather to warn our world, that is, the world of today whose memories

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, USA

An insider’s view from French Hill, Jerusalem

April 15, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than 26 years I’ve been thinking about what’s near and far while looking east from our balcony. At first, we could see a bit of the Dead Sea, but the builders of Isaweea have gone skyward and cut off our view. Isaweea is the congestion off to

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Travel and Food

Violence down, hate speech up against Jews

MDA provides snacks for IDF soldiers

Find your lost soul with The Wanderers

Non- fiction book profiles 15 Israeli inventions

RJC mourns death of Barbara Bush

60 Senate and House members salute Israel’s 70th

Strike successful on Syria’s chemical weapons

The monster is in your car

California Assembly observes Yom HaShoah

Jewish trivia quiz: James Comey

Biography of Jerusalem has its agenda

BGU accepts flag by Israel’s Betsy Ross

Censoring Holocaust memory

An insider’s view from French Hill, Jerusalem

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