Did Obama's nuclear conference make us more safe?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration undertook domestic security and foreign policy decisions to cope with the threat to American interests we understood to have emerged: colored threat levels, airport security changes, the provisions of The Patriot Act at home, and better intelligence coordination and the wars […]

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Write Out Loud production to include Bernard Levin's humorous look at gardening

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“From My Hammock,” a tongue-in-cheek essay about gardening by the late Jewish writer Bernard Levin will be among the short pieces read at Write Out Loud’s presentation of “Rhapsody in Bloom,” a collection of stories about the garden, at 7 p.m., Monday, April 19 at Old Town Theatre.  Tickets for the one-night

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State Legislature to honor Holocaust survivors and liberators

 SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) on Tuesday announced that, in partnership with Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (Democrat, Redwood City), he is leading an effort to honor Holocaust survivors and World War II veteran concentration camp liberators during a special ceremony in the Capitol on April 19,  at 12:00 p.m., as part of Holocaust

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Two Auschwitz Survivors have emotional meeting at Haifa ceremony

HAIFA (Press Release)–An emotional first-time meeting took place at the University of Haifa between two survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: Miriam Yahav, 83, and Nahum Bendel, 82. The two became connected five years ago, in 2005, when  Yahav spontaneously stepped up to the stage at a ceremony in Poland commemorating 60 years of the liberation

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Middle East

Malashock allows public into operating theatre to witness labor prior to dance's birth

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the unique aspects of dance among the art forms is that it affords us the opportunity to observe not only its fruition, but also its creation. It willingly lends itself to a public birth: the dancers, the choreographer and the audience all participating in the process.  John

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Sharansky, Lau, Peer lead March of the Living

AUSCHWITZ, Poland (Press Release)–Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, flanked by Israel’s former Chief Rabbi and government ministers, led a group of over 10,000 on the annual March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in Poland, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday (April 12). “It is easy to say that the lessons of Auschwitz

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Harvard scholar Suleiman to lecture on novelist murdered by Nazis

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Harvard University Prof. Susan Rubin Suleiman will lecture Friday, April 30,  on the experiences of murdered novelist Irene Nemirovsky, a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, but still was sent to Auschwitz under Nazi laws. Suleiman, who served as scholar in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in San Diego, has

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