Jewish History

Genocide research endowed; first fellowship awarded

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship unit of the Institute housed on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is […]

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The kehilla, not politicians, shapes Israel’s true values

Editor’s Note:  Rabbi Dow Marmur, our correspondent who divides his time between Toronto and Jerusalem, shared with San Diego Jewish World this alternative analysis about the trends of Israeli society.   It is a long piece, which readers may wish to print out and read in their easy chairs. By Jim Lederman Dear Dow, I am writing

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Jewish History, Middle East

Wiesenthal Center identifies death squad members

LOS ANGELES (WJC) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center has said it had identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive. The Los Angeles-based organization gave the German government a list of 80 names for investigation. The Wiesenthal Center’s top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told the ‘Associated Press’ on

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International, Jewish History

Survivor Dunst to speak at Beth Israel Oct. 22

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel of San Diego Men’s Club will welcome Lou Israel Dunst, Holocaust survivor, as its guest speaker at the October 22nd Dinner Forum. Dunst will share his experience and tales of survival living through five concentration and labor camps and how he eluded certain death in two different Gas Chambers in Auschwitz

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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar

Touring holy places of three religions

By Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — I had last visited the Temple Mount in 1982, on a synagogue-sponsored trip from New Jersey. My memories of that visit are hazy, but Michal and I got another chance just before Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. We joined a Tel Aviv University-sponsored trip, guided by archeologist/historian Dr. Stephen Rosenberg, whose

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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer

Book tells of 10-year-old who eluded the Nazis

Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child by Margareta Ackerman, Ph.D. Illustrations by Vivien Mildenberger. © 2013, ISBN: 9781492330967, 81 pages. By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO—This book retells the stories of author Ackerman’s grandfather Srulik, who against all odds survived the Holocaust as a child after running away in

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Roseburg founder long mistaken for a Jew

-Twenty-first in a series– By Donald H. Harrison ROSEBURG, Oregon—Having written a biography of Louis Rose, the first Jewish settler in San Diego, I was anxious to learn about Aaron Rose, for whom this town in southwestern Oregon was named. He and Louis Rose were contemporaries. Furthermore, I was intrigued by the fact that an

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Hoard of coins found from time of Great Revolt

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)–Pottery sherds, or fragments, discovered by an Israel Antiquities Authority inspector several months ago, during extensive work by the Netivei Israel – National Transport Infrastructure Company, Ltd. on the new Highway 1 project resulted in an archaeological excavation. A previously unknown settlement from the Late Second Temple period was discovered, as

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Jewish History, Middle East