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THE JEWISH CITIZEN
Shimon Peres shares his personal memories of U.S. presidents... and the president-elect
By Donald H. Harrison
 JERUSALEM—Israel’s President Shimon Peres says that when U.S. President-elect Barack Obama visited him in Israel recently, the Democratic candidate asked if there was anything that he could do for Israel. Peres said he responded, “just be a great president for the United States. This is the best that you can do, because we live in a world where the world’s problems are our problems, the world’s hopes are our hopes.”
While some have worried whether Obama may reorient America’s policy in the Middle East, Peres said he personally was not concerned. He explained that a large segment of the American population supports Israel because of their belief in the Bible, which “no president is going to uproot.” Nor, he said, is any President likely to “close his eyes to the variety of the American society or to the democratic system.”
 Peres was interviewed November 4 by a team from San Diego Jewish World. In photo at right taken by his assistant Ayelet Frisch, Peres, third from left, is shown with SDJW correspondent Dorothea Shefer-Vanson of Mevasseret Zion; his son (and occasional SDJW sports writer, Dr. Yoni Peres); Ira Sharkansky of Jerusalem, and myself and my wife Nancy Harrison.
The president was asked to comment on the bitterness with which some Jews attacked Obama on a variety of grounds, including the false contentions that he was a Muslim, that he swore on the Koran, and even that his election could lead to a nuclear holocaust.
Peres responded that Israelis “want to live in peace with the blacks and the Muslims, with the Buddhists, any color of the skin or shape of the religion.”
He said that through Republican and Democratic administrations, America’s friendship for Israel has been consistent. “If there is no difference between presidents of different parties, why should there be a difference between presidents with different colors of skin?” he asked.
He also commented that he recently attended the Olympic Games in Beijing, and remembered the Olympic Games that were held in 1936 in nazi Berlin “when a black runner (Jesse Owens) who won the gold medal needed to run away from the stadium. What is the difference between the two worlds, then and today? Who is looking at the color of the legs? They look at the speed of your running.”
“I think modern democracy is not just the right to be equal but the equal right to be different either in color or religion or anything you want,” he added.
Peres said that he had felt comfortable with either possible choice Americans might make for U.S president. “John McCain is my friend, I know him and respect him from the past because I know him longer, but I also have respect and trust in Obama.”
 In a lifetime of public service which has included two terms as Israel’s prime minister, and a variety of ministerial offices, including the foreign ministry, Peres has met numerous American presidents. During the interview at his official residence in Jerusalem, he shared with us some favorite anecdotes from his encounters with U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
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The first he mentioned was Reagan, whom he said he “liked very much…because he had an air of modesty. The first time he came, I didn’t know he was the president. He stood like anyone else. He didn’t say things that he didn’t know or that he didn’t understand; there was a modesty in his behavior.”
Whenever he subsequently got together with Reagan, Peres said, they traded jokes poking fun at the Soviets. Peres said one of the jokes in that category dealt with the American who visited a zoo in Moscow and saw that the communists had figured out a way to have a wolf living in the same cage as a lamb. “He asked the manager ‘how did you arrange it?’ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘no problem. Every morning we change the lamb.’”
Another story they enjoyed was the one “about the Jewish person who met members of the Politburo and they exchanged their views and information.” The Politburo members asked about his three sons. The first, living in Hungary, was “building up socialism,” he said. The second, living in Poland, also was ‘building up socialism.” "And what about your third son, the one living in Israel?" they asked. "Is he also building up socialism?" The man responded: “Are you crazy? In his own country?”
On another occasion, Peres said, Reagan was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose representatives traveled to Washington D.C. to make the presentation. “In response, he told the following story: When I was a young man I didn’t like schooling, I didn’t attend school, I didn’t prepare my lessons, and my parents and my friends said ‘Ron, Ron, what will be with you?’” And then, said Peres, Reagan had this expressive look and asked, “if I had listened to them, would you still offer me the prize?”
Peres described Clinton as a “real, real friend” and disclosed that when he and King Hussein of Jordan signed a formal peace agreement between Israel and Jordan, Clinton took Peres aside and inquired about his feelings and motivation. Peres said he told Clinton (kiddingly) that he had signed the agreement because the United States had made a mistake. An incentive for Jordan to sign the peace agreement was forgiveness by the United States of approximately a half billion dollars of Jordan’s debts. “You did what you told others not to do,” Peres said he informed Clinton. “It is your mistake.” Clinton promptly responded that if Peres knew of similar “mistakes” he could make, “please call me up!” Peres added that he considered Clinton “warm and intellectual.”
He said that Johnson was physically a “big man” and “I came there with Mr. (Levi) Eshkol (a prime minister of Israel), who had a real good sense of humor. Johnson was drinking a huge glass of milk and then Johnson started to make the declaration. I was sitting next to Eshkol and when he (Johnson) started with saying the United States of America is foursquare behind Israel, Eshkol says to me, ‘you heard? Four squares! Not three squares!”
Peres recalled that Barbara Bush once wrote a book about Millie, her springer spaniel, which he described as My Dog. One time when he was with Barbara and President George H.W. Bush, Peres said he asked if she planned to write another book. “Yes,” he quoted her as replying, “My Husband.”
He recalled an occasion when at the invitation of the Young Presidents Organization he took a cruise which both President George H.W. Bush, and the current President, George W. Bush, and their wives Barbara and Laura were invited guests, along with Peres and his wife Sonia.
Both he and President George W. Bush were asked to give lectures. “He talked about baseball and I talked about the Middle East, and we didn’t have to change our lectures!” Peres quipped.
He said he and the elder Bush are “great friends,” and described the current president as “a nice charming man as a person; he is really charming. He told me—I don’t know if you can publish it, maybe yes—his mother thinks he is the first Jewish President of America… because he is so pro-Israel.”
Peres recalled that he was only a vice minister when he visited Washington during Kennedy’s administration. Invited by Myer "Mike" Feldman, who served as Kennedy’s liaison for Jewish affairs to meet with the U.S. President, Peres said as soon as he and the Israeli ambassador (Avraham Harman) arrived via a rear door, “he started shooting at me questions” that showed that he was well briefed on Israel, including on why Mossad chief Isser Harel had resigned. Then, “all of a sudden he asked me ‘are you going to build a nuclear bomb?’” Peres said the ambassador looked at him as if he were “warning me not to give the wrong answer. So I answered, ‘Mr. President, we shall not be the first to introduce nuclear bombs to the Middle East.' I got a cable back from home saying, ‘how dare you say it?’ but in a week’s time it became the official policy of Israel.”
Turning to me, Peres said, “I must tell you a story about San Diego. The governor of California was Mr. Brown, Jerry…I was invited by the Bonds organization to attend a gathering of the union of meat cutters at the wooden hotel of San Diego, what is it called? (Hotel del Coronado.).. I came in the afternoon. The place was filled with empty bottles of whiskey. I hardly saw anybody, then the dinner started. The orchestra was nice, the conductor was blind and they played “My Yiddishe Mama.” And then Brown began his speech. The speech went something like this: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you know the salary of the governor is not that high, but in spite of it, I bought Israeli Bonds.’ Now he says, ‘Believe me, if you will show me a map and if you ask me where the hell is Israel, I probably wouldn’t find it. So Israel, I don’t know where it is on the map, but it is in my heart.”
Brown, today California’s attorney general, never was a president, but he did run for that office unsuccessfully in 1976, 1980 and 1992.
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO January 29 Men's Event
LETTER FROM JERUSALEM
Obama's victory and U.S. race history
By Ira Sharkansky
 JERUSALEM—Barack Obama's election is a magnificent personal accomplishment, and a dramatic statement about race in the United States.
It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the history of the United States is the history of race.
The framers of the Constitution endorsed slavery in their compromise between North and South to count three-fifths of the slaves in each state when determining representation in the nation. From then until the Civil War, southern politicians were concerned above all to protect and extend their peculiar institution. The War ended slavery, but Reconstruction failed to make anything close to equal citizens of the slaves and their descendants. Jim Crow ruled the South from the late 19th century until the 1960s.
Currently the central issues in national politics are economics and international relations. Yet people of my age matured when the issue was desegregation, and opportunities for African Americans to obtain decent housing and jobs.
When I began as an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in 1966, a black colonel in the United States Army had been murdered because he entered a white restaurant, and the all-white jury returned a verdict of not-guilty for his killers. By the time I left in 1968, the local schools and the university had begun to integrate. During our ride north to the University of Wisconsin, a white man killed Martin Luther King and blacks rioted.
Barack and Michelle Obama are products of opportunities since then, as well as whites who could vote with enthusiasm for an African American candidate, perhaps many of them without thinking about his color.
Yet race continues to be the most prominent factor that distinguishes Americans. It is the prevailing explanation in studies of income, health, illegitimacy, education, longevity, crime, and punishment.
President Obama will come to office with many aspirations. Wherever on his agenda is a concern for the underclass of blacks and other Americans, it will have to compete with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and something between economic fragility and disaster. Who knows what crises will come to his desk after the celebrations of the inaugural.
A preoccupation of Israeli commentators (What does it mean for us?) is nothing in comparison to the larger story. Yet a bit of local news took a few moments from all-night reports about the American votes. For the first time in months, troops and aircraft attacked targets in Gaza. We can wonder if the IDF timed its operation for the world's preoccupation with something else. The official line is that these were limited operations against specific threats, and should not end the cease fire. Hamas has begun firing rockets and mortars, and is saying that the retaliation should not end the cease fire.
It may not be that simple.
Welcome to the day after, Mr. President-elect.
TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE
TEMPLE SOLELNovember 8 Synaplex featuring Rabbi Daniel Gordis
THE VIEW FROM JINSA
America the Exceptional
By Shoshana Bryen
 WASHINGTON, D.C.—America is an exceptional country; Americans are exceptional people.
Anyone who didn't get goose bumps at the redemption of America's unique promise wasn't paying attention. Anyone who didn't hear an echo Election Night of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King - and Lyndon Johnson - has no soul.
We will go, as we often have, with Senator McCain, who said: "Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this greatest nation on Earth... Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans, and please believe me when I say, no association has ever meant more to me than that."
Or to us.
On this, Senator McCain and President-elect Obama agree. In his acceptance speech, the President-elect said: " If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer...Americans...sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America."
We will measure and assess President Obama's foreign and military policy against JINSA's unchanging priority of a strong and capable American security establishment working with like-minded, democratic allies - especially Israel. We promise to cheer when we think he is right, adamantly stand ground when we don't, and offer policy alternatives where we believe they would be prudent. In this too, we think we - as Americans, not as JINSA - are exceptional because we are prepared for more than one eventuality.
It is more than a little disconcerting to hear both friends and adversaries of America talk as though the world is a different place this morning. America may be different this morning, but that is our affair. The world is still full of people who believe America - not one President or another - is an impediment to their radical, anti-Western and anti-Semitic goals. They didn't like us before the Bush administration; they will not like us now. Russia will not change its view of its place and its neighbors. Iran will not stop pursuing nuclear weapons. Syria will not stop meddling in Lebanon and supporting Hezbollah. Venezuela will not stop supporting terrorist groups in South America and courting Iranian money and Russian arms. China will not let the UN Security Council pass a serious resolution on Sudan despite the depredations in Darfur. They do these things because they believe in them and believe them to be in their interest, not because an American President approves, disapproves or is confused.
Adversaries - of America, of Israel, of freedom and liberty - may think an Obama administration will be more pliable, more willing to see their point of view, more naïve, less willing to take a fixed position, less willing to support Israel or Poland or Colombia. They may be right and that would pose additional serious problems for American interests and security.
But, as we'll explain in the next column, we're equally worried about our friends.
LIFE & TERM INSURANCE SERVICES
ELECTION SCORECARD
Outcomes were mixed in races in which San Diego Jewish World made endorsements
SAN DIEGO—There were mixed results on Tuesday in the races and ballot measures in which San Diego Jewish World ventured endorsements. A majority of voters agreed with us in our assessment that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would provide the country much needed new leadership as president and vice president. But California voters disagreed with our pleas for tolerance and compassion for gays and lesbians who seek to sanctify their relationships as married couples, instead deciding to approve a statewide ban on same-sex marriages.
The voters in California did agree with our opposition to another ballot proposition, which sought to require parental notification before a minor could undergo an abortion procedure. One assumes that voters felt, as we did, that if teenager girls had good relationships with their parents they would find a way to discuss their pregnancy with them. But if their relationships with their parents are bad, then a requirement for parental consent might result in teenagers trying to end their pregnancies by themselves or by unlawful means.
We were pleased that two veteran members of Congress who are members of the Jewish community—Susan Davis and Bob Filner—easily won reelection. In the 78th Assembly District meanwhile, voters in San Diego and Chula Vista embraced the candidacy of Marty Block, who is completing his second term as a member of the San Diego Community College Board of Directors. Block had provided leadership in the local Jewish community as a former president of the American Jewish Committee, and we are certain he will make us all proud as a member of the state Legislature.
Although both races were close, we had mixed results in the San Diego City Council races. Voters agreed with our assessment that former television reporter Marti Emerald would bring a much needed consumer’s perspective to the San Diego City Council, but they disagreed with our choice of Jewish community member Phil Thalheimer in the 1st City Council District, instead choosing La Jolla activist Sherri Lightner, who has opposed construction of a Hillel House and an eruv in the La Jolla community close to the UCSD campus.
We congratulate the winners of these various races, and hope that the spirit of reconciliation which Barack Obama so ably enunciated during his campaign and in his victory speech following the election will extend to governments at all levels.
LAWRENCE FAMILY JCC, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS
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SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
SAN DIEGO—While San Diego Jewish World has gained its place, there is so much more we could do in presenting to the San Diego Jewish community and to Jewish communities all over the world a daily publication of news and commentary.
I am looking for partners who would like to build up San Diego Jewish World with a new graphic design, increased content, and expanded advertising. These prospective partners don't have to invest a dime in our publication—we really don't want your money. We are looking for two things far more important: your ideas and your hard work.
If you are as committed as we are to keeping the Jewish community informed, and to its well-being, and if you have skills that will help us accomplish our task--such skills as web designing, or selling advertising, or web mastering, or writing and editing--we invite you to contact us to discuss your interest in bettering this publication.
I can be reached at editor@sandiegojewishworld.com. Please provide me with some background about yourself, tell me your skills, and how you would like to see San Diego Jewish World. I will respond, and perhaps set up a meeting with you to discuss further your ideas and potential participation in San Diego Jewish World. — Donald H. Harrison, editor and publisher
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY November 18 Kindergarten program
Thursdays with the Songs of Hal Wingard
#24 Persistent Perseverance
Per. . .per. . .persistent perseverance,
Perhaps you've come to know--
A trait that I am sticking to,
And I'm not letting go.
Oh. . .I'm. . .the tide that never stops
Reaching for the shore--
The draft that always sneaks on through
The crack in every door.
Per. . .per. . .persistent perseverance,
Perhaps you've come to know--
A trait that I am sticking to,
And I'm not letting go.
Oh. . .I'm. . .the weed that always grows
Within each flower bed--
The worm that finds the apple home
That's painted brightest red.
Per. . .per. . .persistent perseverance,
Perhaps you've come to know--
A trait that I am sticking to,
And I'm not letting go.
Oh. . .I'm. . .the drop that clings inside
A bottle when it's done--
The tune that stays within your heart
And makes you sing for fun.
Per. . .per. . .persistent perseverance,
Perhaps you've come to know--
A trait that I am sticking to,
And I'm not letting go.
#73 Let The Racers Pass By
No way of knowin’
Just where you’re goin’
Before you reach your life’s end.
So why the hurry,
The need to scurry?
You’ve only one life to spend.
Avoid the freeway
That leaves no leeway
For things that you want to do.
Escape the highway;
Go find a byway;
Then stop and savor the view.
Just take life easy,
Relaxed and breezy;
Float like a cloud in the sky.
Enjoy each pleasure
In fullest measure,
And let the racers pass by;
And let the racers pass by.
#21 By My Singing You Will Know Me
My singing tells you who I am,
Reveals the mood I'm in.
My songs explain my sometimes thought,
And what I've sometimes been--
And what I've sometimes been.
You'll never know by what I say,
Nor what I may have done;
For action's but a playful game,
And talk is just for fun--
And talk is just for fun..
But singing comes from deep within,
With feeling surging strong.
To know the person that I am,
Just listen to my song--
Just listen to my song.
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Adventures in San Diego Jewish HistoryBeth Jacob CongregationSouthwestern Jewish Press, April 14, 1950,page 9
The new building of Beth Jacob which will house the Synagogue and Center for which ground was broken on March 26th is progressing by leaps and bounds. The form of the new building is in evidence by now and a new impetus is being experienced by members of Beth Jacob.
At the last regular meeting held Tuesday evening, April 4th, President A. Abramson introduced Albert A. Hutler, Executive Director of the United Jewish Federation, who spoke on the 1950 Fund campaign.
Volunteers as campaign workers were asked for and members responded well.
Morrie Kraus, Building Fund Chairman, gave a financial report. Mr. Kraus also reported on the groundbreaking ceremony and told the audience about the progress being made on the building. It is hoped that the new Synagogue and center will be ready for occupancy by the end of August and that High Holy Days Services will be conducted there. Plans for the dedication of the new building tentatively set for August 20, are being formulated.
The well attended meeting adjourned for a social hour.
A new feature has been introduced at the Beth Jacob daily services which is the study of Mishnah. A daily lecture on this subject is given by Rabbi Baruch Stern, spiritual leader of the congregation, from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.
The recent Passover holidays saw a complete attendance at the services which began at sundown on April 1. The educational and impressive sermons delivered by Rabbi Stern did much to make congregation members and those who attended more cognizant of the meaning of this holiday.
Men’s Club Formed At Beth Jacob
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 14, 1950, page 9
At a meeting held on Thursday evening, March 23, 1950, a nucleus of some fifty men spearheaded by Morrie Kraus formed the Beth Jacob Men’s Club.
In an atmosphere permeated by good fellowship this group of young men laid plans for an active program of sociability and benefit both to themselves and Beth Jacob Congregation.
Temporary officers elected to serve are Arthur Gordon as chairman; Dr. Joseph A. Kwint as secretary, and Sidney Weiss as treasurer.
Charter membership in this fine new organization will be open until June 1, it was announced by Chairman Arthur Gordon. A cordial invitation is extended to all young men of the community to join this group which is scheduling monthly meetings for an exchange of ideas to promote good fellowship and a better understanding of current problems in their daily life.
Beth Jacob Ladies Auxiliary
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 14, 1950, page 9
The Building Fund of Beth Jacob Congregation continues to grow successfully through the plans and efforts of the Beth Jacob Ladies Auxiliary.
Their latest venture, the highly successful Card Party held last Wednesday evening will add materially to that Fund. Mesdames Charles Press and Jerry Aronoff, the hostesses for this affair wish to thank everyone who attended and those who helped with their contributions to insure the success of the Party.
This gala affair is one of a series being planned by members of the Auxiliary and the next such Card Party which will benefit the Building Fund will have as Hostesses Mesdames Thomas Garber, Sandor Goldberger and Rose Miroff.
At a Board meeting held Tuesday evening, plans were laid for a Lag B’Omer Party to be held at Beth Jacob Center Thursday evening, May 4that which time the drawing will be held for the $25,00 Gift Certificate presented by Mr. George A. Scott of Walker’s store.
Complete details for this dinner and the proper Lag B’Omer entertainment will be announced in the next issue.
A cordial invitation is extended to everyone by Mrs. Charles Press 1st Vice-President of Beth Jacob Auxiliary and its members to attend this fine Lag B’Omer Party.
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGES
BALLOON UTOPIA
SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD: THE WEEK IN REVIEW
CAMPAIGN 2008
Obama election is an advance by America toward its highest ideals by Donald H. Harrison in Kfar Hayarok, Israel
INTERNATIONAL
Tel Aviv savors San Diegans’ financial support for environment, schools... by Donald H. Harrison in Tel Aviv
The Jews Down Under, a roundup of Australian Jewish news ... by Garry Fabian in Melbourne
—Lord's Prayer debate crops up again
—AIJAC testifies on academic freedom enquiry
—Jewish deputy mayor throws hat in the ring
—Prominent Jewish community figure honoured
—Ten million dollar commitment to Palestinians
—Home-grown terrorist attack just as likely
—Community alarmed over fascist visit
—Award winning Jewish author dies
—Shule input requested to solve traffic signal problems
—German prosecutors to appeal Toben's release
—Intercultural visit to synagogue
—Jews and Moslems cook for peace
SAN DIEGO
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ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—April 14, 1950: Pioneer Women
—April 14, 1950: Cottage of Israel Joins In Israeli Independence Celebration
—April 14, 1950: Council of Jewish Women
—April 14, 1950: Histadrut Council
CAMPAIGN 2008
The U.S. President and the Middle East... by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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ARTS
Especially in tight times, Tel Aviv history holds hope for fundraisers for the arts by Donald H. Harrison in Tel Aviv
David and Goliath's epic battle in music by Cantor Sheldon Merel with audio of the cantor's performance of "David and Goliath."
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—April 14, 1950: News of the Fox
—April 14, 1950: Jewish War Veterans Post No. 185 and Auxiliary
—April 14, 1950: Labor Zionist Organization of San Diego
—April 14, 1950: Junior Matrons
CAMPAIGN 2008
Two opposing viewpoints:
Why I voted for Barack Obama...by Donald H. Harrison in Kfar Hayarok, Israel
Why I am voting for John McCain.... by Isaac Yetiv in La Jolla, California
Monotheism is not mono-political...by Sheila Oryseik in San Diego
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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LETTER
Bergen Belsen bar mitzvah witness sought... from Alex Grobman
ARTS
Juber Jubilee in Santa Monica, San Diego by Cynthia Citron in Santa Monica, California
A touch of class at San Diego State by Norman Greene in San Diego
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—April 14, 1950: Second Anniversary of Israeli Independence To Be Celebrated
—April 14, 1950: Young People’s Division Plans Series of Events; April 22 Dinner Dance
—April 14, 1950: S.D. Hebrew Home for the Aged
—April 14, 1950: Cottage of Israel
Sunday, November 2, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 261)
INTERNATIONAL
Israeli elections on simmer as the world awaits the results of the American one by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
CAMPAIGN 2008
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—April 14, 1950: The Center Side
—April 14, 1950: Overseas News and Views
—April 14, 1950: Fund Borrows On Good Name
—April 14, 1950: Letters to the Editor
INTERNATIONAL
SDSU's Weber expresses admiration for Peres Peace Center, Hillel Foundation by Donald H. Harrison in Tel Aviv
Sweetness of desert rains by Ulla Hadar in Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel
CAMPAIGN 2008
Multicultural candidate Todd Gloria found his mentors in the S.D. Jewish community by Gary Rotto in San Diego
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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ARTS
"Don't dress for dinner" by Carol Davis in Solana Beach, California
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—April 14, 1950: Hadassah
—April 14, 1950: Jr. Pioneer Women
—April 14, 1950: You Name It
—April 14, 1950: What’s Cookin’ At Troop 99
Thursday, October 30, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 259)
INTERNATIONAL
Syria makes troubles for its neighbors by Shoshana Bryen in Washington DC.
Peace project funder pleased with where Fred J. Hansen's money goes in Mideast by Donald H. Harrison in Tel Aviv
Israel: the land of abiding controversy by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
In political defense of the haredim by David Benkof in New York
ARTS
Thursdays With The Songs Of Hal Wingard:
—#69 Epitaph
—#96 So Many Ways of Dying
—#306 Never Say Die
CAMPAIGN 2008
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
— April 14, 1950: ‘Magic Carpet’ In Sight Soon
— April 14, 1950: Christian Committee Opens United Jewish Fund Campaign
— April 14, 1950: Women’s Division of U.J.F. Begins Drives for Funds—Plan Luncheons
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 258)
INTERNATIONAL
SDSU group gets a VIP tour of Ramallah by Donald H. Harrison in Ramallah, Palestine Authority
Kristallnacht 70 years later by David Harris in New York
The Jews Down Under, a roundup of Jewish news of Australia by Garry Fabian in Melbourne:
— Council gives green light to Chanukah in the Park
— A policy for the whole community
— B'nai B'rith International President Moishe Smith visits Australia/New Zealand
— Living community memories
— Pressure grows for automatic traffic controls
— Israel programs affected by plummeting Australian dollar
— Jewish attendance at Muslim festival
— Tips and tales from genealogist
— Jewish delegates may join Australia's Durban II team
— Russia Holds key to Iran
— Australian Foreign Minister Smith to visit Israel
Election is a joke: Daily Show Democrats by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein in New York
San Diego Jewish World endorsements
SAN DIEGO
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ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
— March 28, 1950: What’s Cookin’ At Troop 99
— March 28, 1950:You Name It
— April 14, 1950: 1950 Fund Drive Begins Jewish Community Will Meet Obligations; Campaign Off to Good Start!
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NEW YORK —A prominent opponent of "change ministries," Wayne Besen, calls them "the only effective form of ex-gay therapy." At least one gay man says they have been helpful in curbing his appetite for gay sex. Is this a miracle cure for homosexuality?
