By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — If anyone tells you that the United States is a nest of Islamophobia and that’s a huge problem that must be atoned for by all sorts of measures, just give them the official FBI hate crime statistics. The numbers are now out for 2009. The report and the site […]
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USABy Tammy Rubin SAN DIEGO — Homeless beggars make me uncomfortable. It’s not the ragged clothes they wear or the folded signs they hold, but rather the fact that they subconsciously force me to look within myself and consider my wealth and the materialistic life I live. Just as I begin to contemplate the value
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will have the opportunity of a lifetime to work with a world-renowned artist when Mordechai Rosenstein visits the school in December. At SDJA, he will engage students in the creation of a unique piece of art that will incorporate the school’s current annual theme
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, ever vigilant for Jewish license plates, recently hit a trifecta: “Da Chozn” could be a New Yorker or New Jerseyite’s way of saying he or she is part of the chosen people — Jewish, that is. Try4613 is a way of encouraging California freeway drivers to attempt to fulfill God’s commandments
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The FBI released on MONDAY, Nov. 22, the 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes
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USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The United States is offering Israel a variety of gifts and promises in exchange for a 90-day building freeze that includes eastern Jerusalem (according to a U.S. official, as reported by Ha’aretz) to induce the Palestinians to negotiate with Israel for the Palestinian state to which President Obama appears committed.
Obama pushes on behalf of Palestinians, and still they won’t make peace Read More »
Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–The reinvented National Museum of American Jewish History features this inspired advantage: A visitor can readily find it, and swiftly reach it. The museum, which traces the Jewish experience in the United States, is located at the same corner as Philadelphia’s Fifth Street SEPTA subway station and a stop for numerous
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— The leaders of the Reform Movement on Monday, Nov. 22, sent a letter to Secretary Robert Gates urging him to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, a regulation that threatens the rights of all LBGTQ servicemen and women by prohibiting them from serving openly in the United States military. The full text of
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — El Al Airlines will be providing potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiyot) to its passengers flying over the Chanukah holiday. It also has provided the recipes for those who want to make the holiday treats at home. The recipes are from Executive Chef Steven Weintraub of Borenstein Caterers (a subsidiary
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–Jewish community leaders from across Latin America participated in a series of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) workshops where they exchanged strategies on responding to key issues confronting Jews in the region. Community leaders and professional staff from 11 Latin American countries (with representation from Spain and Puerto Rico) gathered November 15-17 at the
TEL AVIV (Press Release)–From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they’ll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at how fat cells –which produce the fat in our bodies –respond to mechanical loads. This might be the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Nov. 22, welcomed a substantial drop in the number of hate crimes documented by a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report, but expressed disappointment that more than 60 U.S. cities with 100,000-plus populations still did not participate in the annual study. The FBI’s 2009 report documenting
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USA
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — It’s always good to start off the week with a bang, not a fizzle. That’s why one of my favorite places to spend the hours after Shabbat and before work starts on Sunday is with the lively folks at Yung Yiddish–Jerusalem’s Yiddish cabaret. Almost every Saturday night in the
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff ‘With the Guardians’ Southwestern Jewish Press, May 13, 1955, Page 3 By Moishe For sheer concentration rivaling a tournament match involving international chess players, we recommend the monthly gin game between Doc Solomon and Ben Harris. What could easily be misinterpreted as a lack of faith (but is
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