By Marissa Palin SAN DIEGO — Life-changing events are all around us. The good ones help us discover who we are. They teach us how to cry, how to laugh, how to live. They teach us to learn, to look within, to grow. For some of us, good ones happen all the time. For others, […]
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Middle East, USAMama never seemed to miss the finer things of life If she did she never did say so to daddy She never wanted to be more than a mother and a wife If she did she never did say so to daddy The only thing that seemed to be important to her life Was to
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It has not been a good couple of days for Barack Obama. Instead of celebrating the anniversary of his inauguration, he is pondering his party’s loss of a special election in what may be the most liberal state in the nation, and Iran’s rejection of a lead item on his
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — As the first Israel Defense Forces (IDF) emergency aid team (there is now a second) left for Haiti, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Given Israel’s security needs, we have accumulated much search and rescue experience over the years. We have applied this experience previously in disaster scenes throughout the
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenNEW YORK (Press Release)– In the wake of a second synagogue arson attack on the Greek island of Crete in as many weeks, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday urged Prime Minister George Papandreou to “make clear that anti-Semitism has no place in Greece.” The Etz Chaim synagogue in Hania sustained substantial damage over the
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego County Library will launch The Big Read, its grant-funded county-wide reading of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, between January 30 and March 15. Residents throughout the county are invited to read the book and attend any of the 330 free events related to the theme. The series
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San Diego CalendarBERLIN (WJC)–Ernst Cramer, a Jewish journalist who fled Nazi Germany and served as an American soldier in World War II, has died in Berlin, one day before his 97th birthday. He was a champion of Israel who also fought to improve relations between Germans, Jews and Americans. Born in Augsburg in 1913, Cramer was incarcerated
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Middle East, USAJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s Holocaust Memorial institution Yad Vashem has named the late André Reeders and Aaltje Reeders-Wittermans as Righteous Gentiles Among the Nations for sheltering the Jewish couple Sally and Claire Gimnicher-Hirsch in their home near Amsterdam in 1942, at the request of the Dutch resistance movement. Unlike most cases, the two couples had had no
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Middle EastMUNICH, Germany (WJC) — Thomas Blatt, 82, a survivor of the Sobibor death camp where Ivan Demjanjuk was allegedly employed as a guard by the Nazis, has given testimony at Demjanjuk’s trial in Munich. Blatt’s family was killed at Sobibor, and at the age of 15, Blatt was ordered to sort out the belongings of Jews
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel has resumed a scheme to airlift 2,000 Falash Mura – Ethiopians of Jewish descent – out of the east African country and bring them to Israel. The scheme was halted in August 2008, when the Israeli government announced the airlifts would be ended. Eighty-one new immigrants arrived on a flight from Ethiopia to
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Middle EastWA SHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, both Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 10 other Senators today urged Ugandan President Yoweri Musseveni to block enactment of a law that would criminalize homosexuality and codify prejudice against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered and HIV-positive Ugandans. The
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Twenty-two executives and employees of companies in the military and law enforcement products industry have been indicted for engaging in schemes to bribe foreign government officials to obtain and retain business, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips for the District of Columbia; and
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said that the visit to the Rome Synagogue by Pope Benedict XVI “acknowledged the validity of Judaism and affirmed the Catholic-Jewish relationship.” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: “Pope Benedict acknowledged the validity of Judaism and affirmed the Catholic-Jewish relationship by his
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Young Israel of San Diego, a small Orthodox congregation located near the base of Cowles Mountain, plans to celebrate Tu B’Shevat with an evening hike to the top of the mountain, weather permitting, at 8 p.m., Saturday, January 30. On return, hikers will enjoy a Melava Malka/ Tu B’Shevat seder featuring the fruits
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