JERUSALEM (WJC)–The chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, has told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee that Hezbollah now had rockets capable of reaching Israel’s largest cities. Ashkenazi’s warning came days after Israel’s navy seized a ship it said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons destined for Hezbollah. The […]
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Middle East, USABRASILIA (WJC)–Brazilian President Lula da Silva has rejected criticism over the upcoming state visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying all sides needed to be involved to achieve peace in the Middle East. ” One does not build the peace necessary in the Middle East if one doesn’t speak to all the political and religious
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Middle EastSACRAMENTO, California (WJC)–Anti-Semitic messages and symbols have been painted on a synagogue in California. Tuesday’s attack on Congregation Beth Shalom, in the Sacramento area, included a swastika, the phrase “Kristallnacht still lives” and the symbol of the SS, which ran the Nazi death camps. Bushes lining the outside of the synagogue building were also set
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Travel and FoodBy Sara Appel-Lennon LA JOLLA, California-He appeared last Sunday at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair to promote his book, My Remarkable Journey. Brooklyn boyhood friends called him “Zeke the Creek the Mouthpiece” since he loved to talk. To this day he refers to himself as the little Jewish kid from Brooklyn. He said “I left
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San Diego Calendar, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The notorious Holocaust denier and antisemite David Irving is to give a secretive lecture in New York City this weekend and Holocaust survivors are calling for peaceful protest against “this person of hate and his hateful ideas.” The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, representing 80,000 families across the country,
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego President and Chief Executive Officer and Miriam and Jerome Katzin Presidential Chair holder Marjory Kaplan is among a group of women recently named a recipient of the San Diego Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business award. These women were recognized for their outstanding contribution to business,
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San Diego CalendarLONDON (WJC)–Britain’s chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has said that Muslims needed to learn to separate religion from power. In a lecture in London to a Christian think tank, Sacks said: “One of the great advantages of being Jewish, is you know how to sing in a minor key. We have had 26 centuries
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Travel and FoodCARACAS (WJC)—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has said that he expected his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Venezuela by the end of the year. Chávez made the announcement on his weekly television and radio broadcast “Aló Presidente” while flanked by Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Amad Sobani. The Venezuelan leader visited Ahmadinejad in Tehran in September.
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is the text of the speech Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered on Monday to the United Jewish Communities convention. My dear friends, leaders of the Jewish communities of North America, The history of the Jewish people has been marked by a paradox. We are at once both small and
By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California — In From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African American Journey to Judaism, Dr. Ernest H. Adam’s new book, he movingly describes his childhood living with his family in squalor in a basement apartment in Harlem, his coming of age during the Black Power Era as a young adult, and
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego Calendar, USAVALLEY CENTER, California (Press Release)—The personal papers of former United Nations Ambassador Irving Salomon, who lived much of his life as a diplomat, rancher and philanthropist in this northern San Diego County community, have been donated by his family to the Valley Center Historical Society which has established the Salomon Archive. Hundreds of documents, letters,
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego Calendar, USABy Arnold Flick LA JOLLA, California–In March this year, President Obama, while in Egypt, addressed the Muslim world. In speaking of Israel, he in essence described the founding of Israel as an event proceeding from the Holocaust. The Zionist community, both here and in Israel, has been very upset by this description and has responded
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Middle East, USAThe following stories were culled by Gail Umeham from the December 11, 1953 edition of the Southwestern Jewish Press as part of San Diego Jewish World’s project to make the San Diego Jewish community’s news archives accessible to the general public. ** Michael Loring Thrills Audience Southwestern Jewish Press December 11, 1953 Page 11 One of the
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy David Amos LA JOLLA, California — One of my important missions in music is to promote lesser known composers and emerging young musicians worthy of greater recognition and exposure. The future of classical music rests in our younger generations. First of all it is essential that we educate our youth to appreciate, enjoy, and
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