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61 Saturday Evening, June 30
1.
Hebrew
University sees hope for asthma cure
2.
Technion dedicates sculpture celebrating reading
3.
Knesset taps 80-year-old at U of Haifa as 'top student'
4.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
Is 'land-for-peace' formula now planned for Syria?
5.
Eliyahu Sigel:
Israel has its answer to U.S. 'Blue Angels' team
6.
Jews
in the News
7.
Jewish Grapevine
8.
Donald H. Harrison:
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar's first career wasn't in the stars
9.
Rusonik to lead Tifereth Israel discussion on Mishnah
10. Jews in sports
60. Friday Afternoon, June 29
1)
Katsav resigns as Israel's president in plea bargain
2)
Wexler wants EU to declare Hezbollah 'terrorist'
3) Anti-Semitic vandalism at Ottawa cemetery
4) EJC President calls on Venezuela's Chavez to curb anti-Semitism
5)
Alarmed by teen glorification of WWII fascism, Wiesenthal Center urges education
in Croatia
5)
Dorothea Shefer-VansonAhmadanejad's twisted logic in Holocaust denial
6)
American Jewish Committee names attorney
Victoria Schonfeld assistant executive director
7)
Rep. Steve Kagen says he'll send payraise back
8) Gideon Aronoff: Immigration bill defeat disappoints HIAS chief
9)
Dov Burt Levy: Columnist
tells responses to his anti-WJC column
10)
Jews in the News
11) News Sleuths
12)
Jewish Grapevine
13)
Baby Cheer at Seacrest Village
14)
Jews in
Sports
59. Thursday Evening, June 28
1)
United
Methodist report urging divestment 'borders on anti-Semitism,' ADL charges
2)
Four IDF
soldiers wounded during Nablus operation
3)
Opinion poll shows Israelis are pro-America while Palestinians are pro
nuclear-Iran
4)
Israel
and the sexual
harassment issue
5)
Even the Hebrew word
for them is funny: Standupistim
6)
Germany agrees to increase pension payments
by cost of living for Holocaust survivors
7)
Former Egyptian Jews to seek restitution of
property
8)
Failure to assimilate Muslims can lead to their
radicalization, Lieberman's Senate committee is told by European witnesses
9) ZOA
opposes Palestinian prisoner release; tells concerns about Tony Blair as
Middle East Envoy
10)
Failure of Blair's predecessors—not the
men but the mission
11)
Jews
in the News
12)
News Sleuths
13)
Jewish Grapevine
14)
Our home
page now links to 3 Jewish events calendars
15)
Ohr Shalom hosts July 13 Zamru Shabbat at Mission Bay
16)
July 27 'Midsummer Musical Shabbat' at Ner
Tamid
17)
Over-hyped,
under-delivered Carmen at Playhouse
18)
Recognizing 'the other' and
what can be done
19)
If yesterday's box scores were an indication, their mothers were
right—five Jewish major leaguers should have become doctors or lawyers
20)
Chutzpah
58. Wednesday Evening, June 27
1.
Donald H. Harrison:
Institution-builder, fundraiser, peace negotiator: which of these roles—or maybe
all—are Blair's?
2.
Once nationalized Cecil Hotel
returned to Jewish family then resold to Egyptian government
3.
Israeli eye doctors will go to Kenya to help Sudanese
refugees at request of UN agency
4.
Israel and Kazakhstan announce
direct flights
5.
RJC urges Democrats to dump Carter as
overseas spokesman given his Hamas comments
6.
ADL, AJC praise Israel
turnaround by United Church of Christ
7.
Ronald S.
Lauder and Matthew Bronfman:WJC leaders in
Brussels decry European anti-Semitism,
Iranian threats of Israeli genocide
8. President
George W. Bush:
Bush, rededicating Islamic Center, wins applause
as he calls for Palestine and Israel side-by-side
9.Jews
in the News
10.News
Sleuths
11.Jewish
Grapevine
12.
Sandy Golden:
Physical
and spiritual side of birthing
focus
of 'Shalom
Baby' class for expectant parents
13.
Shira Kline,
a.k.a ShirLaLa, in kids' concert Aug. 5
14. Eileen
Wingard:
Symphony book tunes into
discordant and melodic
15.
First Homer—Ryan
will never forget this game, but Schoeneweis would like to
57. Tuesday Evening, June 26
1.
Donald H. Harrison: British PM era ends for Tony Blair; does he now step onto
the Middle East stage as Quartet envoy?
2.
House votes to reopen Statue of Liberty to tours
3.
Iran divestment campaigns praised by Olmert
4.
Ban Ki-moon wants journalists to become forces for Mideast peace
5.
European Jewish Congress elects Kantor president
6.
ADL denounces World Council of Churches campaign against Israel as 'moral
outrage'
7.
IDF
and UNWRA cooperate on Gaza relief effort
8.
House unit demands efforts to capture killers of American contractors in Gaza
9.
House committee seeks Japan's apology to WWII sex slaves
10.
ZOA says
Abbas admits that the Palestinians were not the original settlers in the Holy
Land
11.
Jews in the News
12. News Sleuths
13.
Jewish Grapevine
14. Seacrest happenings
15.
JFS seeks 'Rides & Smiles' volunteers
16.
Joel
Moskowitz, MD: Domestic abuse a pandemic, playgoers learn
17.
Holy Land archaeology featured at Museum
of Man
18.
Free
jazz and klezmer Wednesday night at Organ Pavilion
19. Sheila Orysiek:
Are
Pointe Shoes Kosher?
20. Norman Manson:
Hilda: memoir of creative, eventful, bittersweet life
21. Jews in Sports
56. Monday Evening, June 25
1.
Olmert at Sharm el-Sheikh offers release
of 250 Palestinian prisoners without 'blood on their hands'
2.
U.N. Humanitarian Relief Coordinator blames
Palestinian rocket attacks for border closure
3.
U.N. condemns murder of UNIFIL peacekeepers
4.
AJCongress
urges defeat, not reconciliation, for Hamas
5.
Israel's Abramovitch is off to China to discuss bilateral
relations
6. Dorothea
Shefer-Vanson:
Maestro, a little drilling music, please
7.
ADL rues Supreme Court decision limiting taxpayers' ability to file First
Amendment suits
8.
Ackerman,
Lantos urge State Department to hire Arabic- and Farsi-speaking gays dismissed by the Pentagon
9. Independent school group
mulls Torah lessons
10.
Letter: 'Once Again that European Sickness is Upon Us."
11.
Jews
in the News
12.
News
Sleuths
13.
Jewish Grapevine
14.
Audrey Jacobs: My Husband the Long Distance
Swimmer Heads for Catalina.
15.
Bruce
Lowitt: These Modiin miracles weren't menorah nor oil
55. Sunday Evening,
June 24
1. One year later: Israel's government tells its efforts
to win release of captives in Gaza and Lebanon
2.
Prime Minister's Office arranges computers for Sderot
3.
Dorothea
Shefer-Vanson:
Reflections on Hamburg and the grandma I never knew
4.
Ira
Sharkansy:
Amid talk of Gaza war, 'do nothing' is a better option
5.
Jews in the News
6.
Jewish Grapevine
7.
Sandy
Golden:
Land of Milk and Honey
provides cinematic feast
8.
Dead Sea Scrolls debut in San Diego on Friday
9.
Skirball Cultural Center opens 'Noah's Ark' Tuesday
10
Gail Forman: Prague's Jewish Museum evokes mixed feelings
11.
Baseball Jews
54. Saturday Evening, June 23
1.
Weizmann Institute of Science reports finding 'switch' that turns on and turns
off body protein
2.
U.N.warns of 'general food shortages' in Gaza
3.
AJC
praises Senate for passing energy bill
4.Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
Fellow
translator led a
quiet life worth remembering
5.
Not
kosher to eat, but shrimp are great to study; Ben-Gurion scientists find males
have reproductive cycles
6.
Isaac Newton's 'secret knowledge' on display at Hebrew University
7.Alfred
Mann Research Center opens at Technion
8.
Textbook on Jews by Sarna and Krasner wins educational award
9.
Donald H. Harrison:
Congressional partisanship out of place when
Iran's terrorist clients occupy 3 of Israel's borders
10.
Jews in the News
11.
Jewish Grapevine
12. Humor: The Talking Dog
13. Sports: Baseball Jews
53. Friday Afternoon, June 22
1.
House in partisan
fracas narrowly approves foreign aid, including $2.44 billion for Israel
2.
How they voted on the Foreign Aid Bill
3.House again passes bill to
cut off 'aid' to Saudi Arabia
4.
UNESCO
Chief Matsuura opposes boycott of Israel universities
5.
ADL urges UN, NGOs to seek
release of 3 Israeli prisoners
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
Differences between being 'planter' and 'planted'
7. Steve Rabin:
Republicans vote against aid 'act of political hypocrisy'
8.
Jews in the News
9. News Sleuths
10.
Jewish Grapevine
11.
Shalom,
Israel! There Went SSDHDS 8th-graders!
12.
Rabbi Baruch Lederman:
The Russian veteran at the Jewish inn
13.
A
nostalgic visit for baseball's youngest general manager
52. Thursday Evening, June 21
1.
Wiesenthal
Center urges Spain to conduct full-scale
search for Nazi war criminals who may be in hiding
2.
ZOA details efforts to persuade Congress on Iran, Palestinian Authority
and U.S. embassy
3.
IDF battles terrorists;
ships aid to Gaza
4.
U.N. says
Israel must permit more goods to flow to Gaza
5.
AJC
study says sanctions still could work to prevent Iran from developing N-bomb
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
Well, okay, Jerusalem lacks Tel Aviv's beach
7.
Hadassah's national convention already a sell-out
8.
Reform Jews hail passage by New York State Assembly of bill legalizing same-sex
marriage
9. Rabbi Wayne Dosick:
Let’s build demonstration towns in
the Middle East – and the Midwest
10. Jews in the News
11. News Sleuths
12.
Jewish Grapevine
13.
Hadassah women receive chaplain's insight into Iraq warfare
14.
Jewish Family Service sets Adoption Alliance schedule
15.
Shabbatons in San Diego, New York; Torah and ethics study crowded Chabad
year
16.
Oops! Jason Marquis serves up Sammy Sosa's 600th
51. Wednesday Evening, June 20
1.
House adopts resolution urging United Nations to
bring charges against Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2.
Middle East now 'highly volatile,' UN envoy Michael Williams reports to
Security Council
3. Changing of the Defense Ministers in Israel (video)
4.
Lantos favors support of Abbas; urges
U.S. to admit more refugees from Iraq
5.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
And
what about the daily life of Israelis?
6.
Ezer Mizion provides day of respite for cancer patients and their
families
7.
Resolution to honor
Morgenthau, others, for
Holocaust rescue efforts draws Filner support
8.
House adopts resolution honoring Jacob Birnbaum
9.
Schiff gains 200 to recognize Armenian genocide
10.
Shoshana Bryen:
Why JINSA
takes a 'contrarian' position on Abbas
11.
Jews
in the News
12
News Sleuths
13.
Jewish Grapevine
14. Jewish
Family Service’s Foodmobile Expands Service
15.
Eileen
Wingard:
Copland’s Appalachian
Spring delights
Ohr Shalom in last days of S.D. spring
16.
Sports
50. Tuesday Evening, June 19
1.
Donald H. Harrison: San Diego UJF directs $2.16 million to
Sderot and
Sha'ar Hanegev for rebuilding from Gaza rockets
2.
Joint
Bush-Olmert Press Conference: Olmert proposes regular meetings with Abbas
3.
IDF
provides humanitarian relief to Gazans
4.
Italians protest war criminal Priebke's work permit
5.
Anti-Semitic letter writer gets 6 years for threats
6.
Ira
Sharkansky: Reassessing the outcome of the 2nd Lebanon
War
7.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: The Music of a Community
8.
Shoshana
Bryen:
U.S. should drop idea of independent Palestine;
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs offers advice to Bush, Olmert
9.
Jews
in the News
10.
News Sleuths
11. Jewish
Grapevine
12.
Donald H.
Harrison:
Tales of two ceremonial occasions, hours apart
49. Monday Evening, June 18
1.
Donald H. Harrison:
Only one
Palestine, not two, and it's headed by Mahmoud
Abbas, declares U.S. Secretary of State Condolleezza Rice
2.
U.N. Secretary General deplores rocket attack on Northern Israel; calls
it effort to 'destabilize' Lebanon
3.
Aid efforts in
Gaza return to earlier strength, UN agency says
4.
First
Israeli selected to head UN committee
5.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: My passport to adventure in Tel Aviv
6.
Sheila
Orysiek: Bubbe and the Old Order Amish
7.
Israel's
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni makes
direct 'peace appeal' to the Arab world
8.
Jews in the News
9.
News Sleuths
10
Grapevine
11.
Donald H. Harrison:
Marty Block begins campaign where he began married life
12
David Strom:
When it all became clear to Hannes
Klar
13. Carol Davis: Moxie scores with Devil Dog Six
48. Sunday Evening, June 17
1.Livni
tells Portuguese leaders of Israel's new 'dual strategy' for dealing with
the Palestinians
2.
Ira Sharkansy: Is
Israel waiting for a causus belli to deal with Gaza?
3.
30 ways to save water
suggested by Jewish National Fund and International Arid Lands
Consortium
4.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Even
Yad Vashem can have a typo, so verify listings
5.
Shoshana Bryen: Reply
to Alvarado de Soto: U.S. is pro-Israel and is not neutral between its friend
and terrorists
6.
Jews
in the News
7.
Jewish Grapevine
8.
Donald H.
Harrison:
Don't
spill the wine on the Lamborghini's leather
9.
94-foot scroll by Ruth
Weisberg
provides centerpiece for
retrospective at Skirball
47. Saturday Evening, June 16
1.
Congressman Anthony Weiner seeks to end all aid,
including humanitarian, to Palestinian Authority
2.
Susan Davis to head Personnel Subcommittee
of the House Armed Services Committee
3. Ben
Gurion University professor Alon Friedman
honored by Germans for his epilepsy research
4.Ecuador's Minister of Education has both a family and professional interest in
Technion
5.
Brandeis University receives
$15 million from Schusterman Foundation for Israel studies center
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: When the high school reunion is in a country left behind
7.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld:
The High Cost of Free Speech
8.
Dov
Burt Levy:
World Jewish Congress is a misnamed billionaires club
9. Jews in the News
10.
News Sleuths
11.
Jewish Grapevine
12.
Look
out, Israel! Here come SSDHDS 8th-graders!
13.
Hebrew
University scans, uploads 1,042-page mahzor dating back to 1331 in
Nuremberg
46. Friday Afternoon, June 15
1.
Donald H. Harrison: U.S. continues
to back Mahmoud Abbas government in Palestinian Authority
2.
Bush meets
with Jewish leadership at White House
3.
Asaf
Romirowsky: The fight against the Israel-haters
in
academia
4.
Anti-boycott
petition signed by 4,700-plus academics
5.
ADL, AJC
accuse UN of institutionalizing anti-Israel bias
6.
Bruce
Kesler: Waldheim reprehensible alive, remains so dead
7.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Israel has frum and not-so-frum Orthodox
weddings
8.
Baron Guy de Rothschild dies at 98
9.
Jews in the News
10.
News Sleuths
11. Jewish Grapevine
12.
San Diego Jewish Academy grads roll up honors
13.
JCF offers Tikkun Olam
Camp for youthful philanthropists to learn about the art of giving
14.
Rabbi Baruch Lederman:
The reasoning of
a hoarse Torah-reader
15. Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal:
An aging secret from the Maggid of
Konitsch
45. Thursday Evening, June 14
1.
Donald H. Harrison: Hamas
terror force wins control of Gaza; multinational intervention seen as possible
2.
Olmert in Knesset describes Peres' election as Israel's president as 'a moment
of hope, a moment of joy'
3.
Hadassah sends Peres its 'mazal tov'
4.
Emanuel and
LaHood urge safe place for Gaza kids
5.
Kurt
Waldheim dies; AJC says his Nazi past
forced Austria to acknowledge its own role
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Family over politics
draws writer to 'territories'
7.
Jews in the News
8.
News Sleuths
9.
Jewish Grapevine
10.
Congressional Gold Medal proposed for Jerry Lewis
11. Fred Reiss:
Traces of God:
Easier
to find God if you actually look
12. Natasha Josefowitz: Men are for tasks: Women are for process.
44. Wednesday Evening, June 13
1.
Donald H. Harrison: Israel turns to
former prime ministers: Peres
elected as president; Barak heads Labor party
2.
Shoshana Bryen: Hamas appears to be the victor over Fatah in Gaza civil war,
with help of Syria, Iran
3.
President Bush names four to represent him at History of Polish Jews Museum's
groundbreaking ceremony June 26
4.
Congressman wants UN High Commissioner fired
5.
AJC
decries 'culture of hatred and death' in Gaza
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Hilde was a living link with the
German Jewish past
7.
Jews in the News
8. News Sleuths
9
Jewish Grapevine
10
Carol Davis: Hamlet and the moral dilemmas that lie therein
11.
Carol Davis:
Three Jewish 'Stars' Feted at Annual Tribute to Volunteers
43. Tuesday Evening, June 12
1.
Olmert suggests an
international force between
Egypt and Palestinian Authority to stop smuggling
2.Israel
always intended to give back Golan—University of Haifa researcher
3.
Holocaust
denial denounced at historic interfaith
gathering of Jews, Muslims, Hindus in Indonesia
4. Germany
completes compensation of WWII slave laborers
5.
Settling
civil wars in Iraq, Palestine, difficult tasks
6.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Be it ever so dusty,
there's no place like Israel
7.
ADL,
AJC Praise Columbia University for its
statement on British academic boycott against Israel
8.
Bill
prohibiting sale of jet parts to Iran wins
approval in the U.S. House of Representatives
9. Jews in the News
10.
News Sleuths
11.Jewish Grapevine
12.
Bruce F.
Lowitt; 'First' pitcher at Padres-Rays game heads for Israel league
13.
Norman Manson: Books—
100-year-old's
story is a true autobiography, not just a memoir
14. Carol Davis: Theatre—Nostalgic
Sassy Sarah Vaughn provides
enjoyable evening
42. Monday Evening, June 11
1.
Jewish Family
Service issues appeal to help 20 frail Holocaust survivors
2. Key
committee of American Association of University Professors rejects British call
for boycott of Israel
3. Lauder
succeeds Bronfman as WJC president
4.
Smith seeks worldwide education campaign on Shoah
5.
ADL asks
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka to withdraw praise for NOI's Louis
Farrakhan
6.
Shoshana
Bryen: JINSA applauds resignation of Larry Talent from U.S.-funded Arab language
television news staff
7.
Congressman Adam Schiff introduces legislation to ban campaign payments to
congressional spouses
8.
Nadler
committee to quiz former EPA Administrator Whitman on whether public told of
post-9/11 toxins
9.
Rep.
Susan Davis, Senators Boxer and Lieberman team up for service personnel's mental
health
10.
Jews
in the News
11.
Jewish Grapevine
12
Music recipe: Jazz sextet + klezmer quintet = once in lifetime
opportunity to hear the two in jam session
13
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: The Saga of the Saba and the Safta
41. Sunday Evening, June 10
1.
Israel organizes its response to UK's proposed academic boycott
2.
Harel
appointed deputy chief of staff of IDF
3.
Donald H. Harrison: Current S.D. City Council 'less public-spirited' than
previous councils, says Abbe Wolfsheimer Stutz
4.
Jews in the News
5.
Jewish Grapevine
6.
Laurie Baron:
Cinema in the Crossfire of Jewish-Polish Polemics
7.
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: The satisfaction of mentoring a young, talented musician
40. Saturday Evening, June 9
1) Feinstein, 7 other senators call on
Bush
to reinvigorate Middle East peace process
2) Hebrew University Ph.D. wins Kaye
Award for ‘natural protection’ to reduce spread of Alzheimer’s Disease
3) Olympics
movement honors Israeli race walker
4) Brandeis taps Nader
Habibi for Middle East Studies
5)
Dorothea Shafer-Vanson: I love Israel in the
Springtime...
6)
Jews in the News
7) News Sleuths
8)
Jewish Grapevine
9)
Jewish Museum in Prague spotlights Otto Guttfreund
39. Friday afternoon, June 8
1)
Donald
H. Harrison: Divestment-from-Iran legislation advances in Florida and California
2)
Shoshana
Bryen:
Neither the U.S. nor Israel should prop up
Assad's Syria
3)
Ban Ki-Moon
'shocked' by Iran's anti-Israel threats
4) RJC lauds effort to monitor Iran's arm smuggling
5)
Schiff introduces bill to 'fingerprint' nuclear materials
6)
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
Putting the Middle East dispute in chronological context
7)
Jews in the News
8)
Jewish Grapevine
9)
Issues Forum
10)
News Sleuth
11)
Rabbi Leonard
Rosenthal: The special Gematria of the tzitzit
12)
Rabbi Baruch Lederman:
A rabbi
teaches colleagues the meaning of hospitality
13)
Carol
Davis:
Hairspray
is
filling the ozone at the Civic Theatre
38. Thursday evening, June 7
1)
Bipartisan congressional delegation pushes resolution
repudiating boycott of Israel by British labor groups
2)HIAS
commends Senate for approving 'asylum' amendment to the Immigration Reform bill
3)
American Jewish Committee expresses concern over
Switzerland's pipeline agreement with Iran
4)
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson:
Driving in Israel: Not for the faint of heart
5)
Rabbi
Wayne Dosick: This year must not be 586 BCE, 70 CE or 1933
6)
Donald H. Harrison: Such Elation! San Diego berths cruise ship
7)
Jews in the News
8) Jewish Grapevine
9)
Carol Davis: Did you
see the one when Moses played Joseph?
10)Norman Greene:
The sounds of his exercise
routine: Oy, Ahh, Oy, Vey!
37. Wednesday evening, June 6
1)
United
Nations officials mark 6-Day War
anniversary by blaming Israel
2)
Shoshana Bryen:
Six-Day War
was the result, not the cause, of Arab governments' hostility to Israel
3)
Jewish groups
plan demonstration June 10
in Washington D.C. to counter anti-Israel effort
4)
NJDC faults 26 Republicans
for opposing bill to
establish commission on Jewish WWII refugees
5)
Reform Jews seek hate crimes protection
for gays
6)
Anti-Defamation League says United Church of Christ
ignores Jewish suffering in its statement on Middle East
7)
'I am my brother's keeper,' vows HIAS chairman
8)
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: As we
remember 1967 war, let's also recall the wounded
9)
News
Sleuths: Watching the media gathering and reporting the
news of Jewish interest
10)
Jews
in the News
11)
Jewish Grapevine
12)
Interfaith
Shelter Network plans dinner, tour and Dead Sea Scrolls lecture
13)
David Strom: Iran seen through the eyes of a woman
of steel
14)
Songs of a Wayfarer to highlight TICO Concert
15)
Humor:
The kosher computer
16)
Sylvia Cysner remembrance
36. Tuesday evening, June 5
1) Some Republican presidential candidates
favor bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, if necessary
2)
'Boycott Israelis, you also boycott us'—Dershowitz, four Nobel laureates, other
scholars vow in petition
3)
ZOA calls on United Nations to expel Iran for threats to 'wipe out' member state
Israel
4)Vacations without children? That's not the Israeli way
5)
Shel Silverstein a legend in winter home, Key West
6)
Jews in the News
7)
Jewish Grapevine
8) At age
70, UJF of San Diego is giving itself a facelift
9)
‘Who
Wrote the Bible?’ subject of free AJE mini-course
10)
Used Book Sale to Benefit JCC's Astor Judaica Library
35. Monday evening, June 4
*
Roz Rothstein:
StandWithUs urges world response to Iran's latest threat to eliminate Israel
from the map
*'Why be Jewish?'
topic of Bronfman conference in Utah
*
Ira Sharkansky: 'Boycott? What boycott?' ask British lay persons
*Olmert
holds meetings with Senator Joseph Lieberman and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist
*Dorothea
Shefer-Vanson: Month-long study qualified us as Israel Museum hosts
*Anti-Defamation
League urges Norway, South Africa to refrain from direct diplomacy with Hamas
*Jews
in the News
*The
Jewish Grapevine
*Inter-religious
confab in L.A. probed 'Challenge of Respect'
*Manhigim
students will discuss civil rights and modern dictatorships
*Obituary:
Dr. George W. Weinstein
34. Sunday evening, June 3
1)
Donald H. Harrison: Will Bill Clinton become the U.S. Middle East envoy?
2) Haifa University to grant 119 scholarships in the name
of each of the Israeli soldiers who died in Lebanon War
3)
Computers and Internet
'flatten' the playing field,
Friedman tells Hebrew University graduates
4)
Bacteria unable to resist Technion-developed antibiotic
5)
Jews in the News
6)
Jewish Grapevine
7) Gerry Greber: Military personnel, civilians enjoy seagoing Shabbat
8)
Norman Podhoretz: On the choseness of the Jews and the centrality of Jerusalem
9)
Sheila Orysiek: One mistake is an accident, but three are symptoms
10)
Jewish Museum in NYC spotlights Nevelson
33. Saturday evening, June 2
1.
'Nobody will drive us out,' mayor
of Sderot vows in conference call
2.
ADL's Foxman raps Swiss for proposing
to Iran the conference on the Holocaust
3.
Wiesenthal Center urges
investigation
of Hizbollah activities
in Paraguay
4.
AJC congratulates law enforcement
for thwarting a terror attack at JFK
5.
Ban-ki delivers closed-door report on Middle East
to members of United Nations Security Council
6.
Wexler, Crist on bipartisan trip to Israel
7.
National Intelligence Estimate to determine what
threat global warming poses to American security
8. Wyden contrasts his and Obama's health care plans
9.
Jews in the News
10.
The Jewish Grapevine
11.
Donald H. Harrison:
Finding a Jewish story wasn't a fair challenge
12: Carol Davis: Babies, Babies, Babies
13
Lynne Thrope:
A Visit to the Renown Culinary Institute
of America
32. Friday
afternoon, June 1
1)
President Bush authorizes Secretary of State Rice
to provide limited assistance to Palestinian Authority
2)
8,000 sign
petition urging DePauw University
to deny tenure to Shoah minimizer Finkelstein
3)
Zionist
Organization of America, citing new Israeli poll,
urges Olmert to abandon idea of 'unilateral withdrawals'
4)
Jews in the News
5)
Jewish Grapevine
6)
Jewish Community Foundation, now largest grantmaker in
San Diego County, celebrates 40 years of philanthropy
7)
Jewish
Family Service resettles more than 60 refugees each year in San Diego area
8)
Rabbi
Baruch Lederman: Whenever abba forgets his hat, it's sure to rain
9) Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal:
Rely on yourself. Don't expect a miracle!
10) Carol Davis: George and Martha are at it again!
11)
Donald H.
Harrison:
Yes, there
are Jewish stories everywhere—even among the Seals and sea lions
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