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German Prosecutors Prepare Dozen-Plus Cases Against Nazi War Crime Suspects

(JNS) Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Prosecutors confirmed last week that a 100-year-old man is deemed fit to stand trial in October for serving as a guard at the […]

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International

Memorial Service for Former Federation CEO Michael Jeser to be Held August 26

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Heidi Gantwerk, Interim President & CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, and Jack Maizel, Board Chair of the Federation, today issued the following announcement regarding an upcoming memorial service for former Federation CEO Michael Jeser, who died July 24: Friends, In observance of the conclusion of Sheloshim

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County

US and Israel Tighten Air Defense Cooperation

By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) Representatives from the U.S. and Israeli Air Forces met last month to discuss a remarkable development: what the Israel Defense Forces described as “updated orders for the cooperation between the two nations’ air-defense systems during emergency situations.” The Israeli delegation was led by Brig. Gen. Gilad Biran, commander of the IAF’s

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Middle East

Unprecedented Deep-Sea Shark Discovery in Israel Sheds Light on Climate Change

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — A research initiative led by the University of Haifa-and partners in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea recently revealed deep sea brine pools and related habitat hotspot, including hundreds of deep-water sharks and the largest concentration of deep sea shark eggs ever found. These represent one of the most significant discoveries of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Lapid Travels to Morocco in First Visit by an Israeli Foreign Minister Since 2003

(JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid traveled to Morocco on Wednesday to inaugurate the Israeli Liaison Office in Rabat. His two-day visit to the country is the first by an Israeli foreign minister since 2003. The inauguration of the office, which has been operating since the arrival in January of Israel’s new envoy to the

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Middle East

Central America unites in show of solidarity against antisemitism

By Eliana Rudee (JNS) The Guatemalan president and regional Parliamentarians convened virtually on July 29 to display a united front against antisemitism and celebrate ties with the Jewish state. At the inaugural Central America Forum for Israel, the leaders issued a joint declaration calling for a united stance against surging global antisemitism, including support for

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International

Hardline cleric Raisi sworn in as Iran president amid tensions with West

Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office before parliament on Thursday, with the Islamic Republic’s clerical rulers facing growing crises at home and abroad. The mid-ranking Shi’ite cleric formally started his four-year term on Tuesday when supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed his victory

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Middle East

Telling the Truth About the Palestinians

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai Stevenson “During the 1948 war,” says letter-writer Bob Holden of Los Angeles, “the Israelis expelled more than half the Palestinian population (some 700,000) and seized their land and businesses

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA

San Diego Rep’s ‘57 Chevy:’ A True Celebration of Immigration

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — What a sweet ride! San Diego Rep’s end-of-summer offering, 57 Chevy, provides not only a cruise down Memory Lane, but reveals the immigrant experience of one man’s family as they assimilated to life in the United States. Cris Franco and co-writer Valerie Dunlap’s story vrooms to life in this one-man

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

New report slams social media giants for ‘failing to act on antisemitism’

(JNS) A new report by the Center to Counter Digital Hate (CCDH) revealed that five major social media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of antisemitic posts on their websites, despite promising to double down on antisemitism. Researchers from the non-governmental organization examined 714 racist anti-Jewish posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok that

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International

How three Israeli filmmakers wound up becoming the story in Africa

By Josh Hasten (JNS) Three Israeli documentary filmmakers arrived home safely from Nigeria at the end of last week, after what they described as 20 “hellish days” detained under inhumane conditions by the government’s Department of State Services (DSS) security agency. Rudy Rochman, David Benaym and Noam Leibman had set off for the African country

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Middle East