By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth […]
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Israel’s and one of the world’s first scholarly journals on the Holocaust, published in conjunction with the University of Haifa’s Institute for Holocaust Research since 1979, is now being published in English as well as the original Hebrew. Dapim: Studies on the Shoah, The Journal of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews: “This is the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Community Mourns Passing of George Neumann Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, page 1 George Neumann, prominent San Diego resident since 1918, died on Aug. 24 at age 69. Mr. Neumann was associated with many local and national organizations and played an active part in philanthropy in
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Adventures in SD History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Victor Stanislavsky presented an exciting recital on June 17 at the Dove Library in Carlsbad. This concert was part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Music Series and was underwritten by the Leichtag Foundation. The two young Israeli artists shared their formidable talents
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Eileen Wingard, Middle EastBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Another outlandish legal opinion should prod us to wonder how four U.S. Supreme Court justices got accepted to law school. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. writes in a dissenting opinion: “I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that today’s decision is a serious setback for freedom
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Middle East, USABy Dr. Michael Goldblatt Chairman, Zionist Organization of America PHILADELPHIA–It is clear that Israel faces some serious dangers and lurking threats, most obviously the threat of nuclear-armed Iran whose regime speaks frequently of a world without Israel and America. Three Iranian presidents have spoken publicly of seeing Israel eliminated by nuclear strikes, despite the costs
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a crucial divide between PR and straight talk, between red lines, bottom lines and spin. Last week we cautioned against mistaking Israel’s bad PR for bad policy, and faulted people who respond to Israel based on how things look in the media rather than for what they
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by the San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, August 20, 1954, page 5 By Adolph Brodman News of the Fox Regular meeting of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge was held on Aug.10. Brother Morrie Kraus made his official visit and was greeted by one of the largest turnouts that the lodge had had
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Middle East, USAHAIFA (Press Release)–Just a few months after being established, the University of Haifa’s Ami and Teddy Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet has been awarded IBM’s Open Collaborative Research grant. Head of the Center, Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, and Dr. Daphne Raban, a member of the research faculty at the Center, have been awarded
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–David Grossman is one of Israel’s most celebrated intellectuals, with an impressive list of prizes for thoughtful and provocative fiction. He also authored descriptions of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that capture conditions that derive from their own cultures and from living under the shadow created by Israel. Long an opponent of force
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives for his 5th set of meetings with President Obama, the headline in one newspaper is, “Obama mum on Bush’s borders for Israel,” noting, “The White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final borders
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — I attended a service at Temple Emanu-El a few weeks ago and Gilad Shalit was one of the guests of the Bat Mizvah and the congregation. At least in spirit. Up front to the left of the bimah was a picture of Shalit. A reminder of his captivity. It
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