Clinton voices support for Argentina’s demand for extradition of Iran’s defense minister
WASHINGTON, D.C (WJC)–US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington is backing Argentina in its call for Iran to extradite the suspects in 1994 AMIA bombing. “Argentina and the United States cooperate closely in the fight against terrorism,” Clinton said at a joint press conference with Argentine FM Héctor Timerman.
“Argentina, of course, has been a victim of terrorist attacks on its own soil, and we support Argentina’s pursuit of justice for those tragic and deplorable acts,” she added.
Argentina has issued warrants for the arrest of Iranian Defense Minister Ahmed Vahidi and five other Iranians, as well as a Lebanese national, for planning and carrying out the bombing of the AMIA, which claimed the lives of 85 people.
In January, the United States showed it was ready to help Argentina prosecute the suspects in the attack, through its Embassy in Buenos Aires. The AMIA center was the second anti-Semitic terror attack in Argentina, coming two years after a car bombing destroyed the Israeli Embassy. Twenty-two people died in that attack, and 200 were wounded.
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Preceding provided by World Jewish Congress
Peres lauds Bulgaria’s record resisting Holocaust
SOFIA (WJC)– Israel’s President Shimon Peres has paid tribute to Bulgaria’s record with respect to the plight of its Jewish population during World War II. Peres said that the country had “suffered much from many directions, including from the Nazis, but the country managed not only to save itself, but also to save the Bulgarian Jews”.
“I am sincerely grateful for this,” Peres said in a speech, after he was bestowed by Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov with an order in recognition of his “great contribution towards strengthening and developing Bulgarian-Israeli bilateral relations”.
Peres was in Bulgaria to discuss cooperation between Israel and Bulgaria in technology, industry and tourism. His visit follows Purvanov’s trip to Israel in 2008, and “is the result of the high level of bilateral cooperation in all spheres”, an official statement of the Bulgarian government said.
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Preceding provided by World Jewish Congress
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, December 10, 1954, Part 4
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff
Beware the Demagogue
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
It is not easy to be calm and objective about the course of events in the McCarthy affair. The Jews are familiar with the pattern of demagoguery. Centuries of persecution have taught them not to treat lightly the activities of extremists and rabble rousers.
The controversy over McCarthy has overtones of religious bias that are ominous and dangerous. Jews were trying to destroy McCarthy because he is a Catholic. The professional anti-Semite, Gerald (there’s a profit in hate) L.K. Smith, got into the act by sending out a letter appealing for money which said: “Five million dollars are available to forces that are determined to destroy McCarthy by murder, character assassination and removal from the Senate. This group of conspirators are alien-minded, Jew financed, etc., etc.”
Catholic Senators also voted against McCarthy but the extremists conveniently ignored this fact and raised a religious issue that has no place in politics or government. Another example is that of the Texas oil man, who wrote to one of the Senators that Sen. Lehman should be sent out of the country because of his part in the censure of McCarthy. If the forces of prejudice are allowed to spread then this country will truly be an easy target for the enemies of our Democracy.
The U.S. Senate has done a service to country and at the same time showed the world that the Senate is no place for those who flout the rules. In our opinion the Republican party has gained stature by their action. They can now forget about McCarthy and devote themselves to the problems of securing the peace.
To the people of the United States we say, “Beware the demagogue.” If McCarthy is to be taken seriously he must fight Communism, not use it as a stepladder for his own ambitions and political ends, or a shield to avoid answering charges of misuse of funds and abuse of outstanding Americans.
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Good Advice in Oregon (Editorial)
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
The judgment of the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis is having a decisive influence on national affairs today.
As the eighty-fourth Congress settles down to wrestle with the knotty agenda of foreign and domestic problems, the Democrats will have the power to organize and control the Senate by the hairline margin of one vote due to the last minute election of Democrat Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon.
The brilliant rise of the political career of Neuberger and the ramifications of this next step upward into the United States Senate, is largely the result of the young Senator’s fateful friendship with the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. For it was on the advice of Justice Brandeis back in 1933 that caused Neuberger to remain in Oregon to forge a career in politics that has led him to his present status in American life.
Senator Neuberger received this advice from Brandeis back in 1933 when he began work as a newspaper man in Oregon. Some years later Neuberger was weighing a tempting offer from a national magazine and in his dilemma he wrote Justice Brandeis asking him if his opinion remained unchanged.
The Justice’s reply was simple:
“Dear Richard Neuberger:
Stay in Oregon.
Cordially,
Louis D. Brandeis
Senator Neuberger headed this advice. Today the balance of national policy is being shaped by the words of advice to an aspiring writer offered by a great Supreme Court Justice.
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More About 300 Years in American History~Chapter 48
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
By Philip L. Seman, University of Judaism
Continuing Maimonides’ consideration for the less fortunate, which is the key to Jewish Social Service from the last installment of this series: There is the one who gives adequately and graciously, but never gives until he has been asked.
One step higher is the one who does not wait to be asked, but wants to know all about it, demanding full information about the recipient and requiring that he should know to whom thanks are due.
Maimonides then speaks of the next step, somewhat more deserving of admiration, he who does ot concern himself about the recipient, but still demands a full and glowing acknowledgment from all men for his generosity.
Far higher, he tells us, stands the one who insists upon secrecy as to himself; although he may demand full knowledge of the one who is the beneficiary of the gift. Better than all is the one who remains personally unknown, and who does not know the recipient of his benefaction.
The highest of all is the very embodiment of Tzedakah, the Tzadok himself, and he is the type who does not wait until trouble falls, but who seeks to prevent it by taking his fellowman by the hand, who treats him as a friend, and either makes him a loan, starts him in business, or does some other practical thing to enable him to help himself. This example of delicate consideration for the feeling of the poor has reached a marked development in Jewish life. IT has risen above Tzodakah to something even more defined.
In the Jewish Ethical Code, there is such a thing as “”Gemiloth Hasodim,” the doing of kindness. Whatever may have been the ills of the restricted life of the Jews in former days, their benevolence was possessed of the rarest tenderness of feeling. The family spirit extended itself throughout the community and embraced every member thereof. This manifested itself in such deeds of loving kindness as friends show to friends in all the changing crises of live.
These old familiar duties are summarized in the old ritual of the synagogue—to care for the homeless-care for the stranger—care for the widows and orphans – to provide dowries for the daughters of the poor—to cloth the naked – to visit the sick — to bury the dead. All these acts and others were performed, not in a perfunctory fashion, not in a spirit of patronage, as though bestowing favors, but rather as showing kindness without a thought of reward.
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(Dancing Waters)
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
“Dancing Waters,” one of the most popular features at last summer’s Southern California Exposition at Del Mar, will be returned this summer, Manager Paul T. Mannen has announced.
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Local Crusade for Children Seeks 13 Cents Per Second
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
“What is the life of a child worth?” This is a question that the San Diego County Crusade for Children will asks us all between December 11th and 20th. It is a question that must be answered generously in order to maintain and expand treatment and research facilities at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California
The Crusade for Children Committee is dedicated to two primary goals – to insure that the people of San Diego are aware of the life-saving facilities and treatment available to them at the City of Hope free of charge; and second to raise the 13 cents a second it cost to operate the National Medical Center.
Cancer and leukemia have long been recognized by the medical profession as the number one killers of children between the ages of one and 14, and the City of Hope is recognized as one of the outstanding medical centers of its kind in the world today.
Founded 41 years ago as a tuberculosis hospital, the City of Hope has since grown to become one of the “pilot” hospitals in the country today in man’s fight against catastrophic diseases.
For the past 26 years, the City of Hope has been serving San Diego County. During the past ten years, the City of Hope has given over 7,000 patient days to San Diego area residents at a cost to the City of Hope of over $131,840. During this same ten year period, the City of Hope received less than ten percent of that amount from San Diego.
The Jewish Press joins the dedicated volunteers of the San Diego county Crusade for Children Committee in appealing to you to “buy” ten seconds of a child’s life by making your check payable to “The City of Hope” and mailing it to the San Diego County Crusade for Children, 902 Third Street, San Diego. Give a child the most precious gift of them all -0- hi life.
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As the Psychologist Sees You
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 7
Irving Stone
By Irving R. Stone
Inhibition of Thought –When the Progressive Education Movement was new, and often misunderstood, it was the vogue to say that the child should not be inhibited or frustrated but should be allowed to do and say anything and everything he wished. Thus, setting limits to expression was frowned upon. Today, we do not go to those limits in our permissiveness although still recognize that too many limitations may be harmful as too few.
Sometimes limitations are sent, not by parents or other adults, but by the individual himself. The Inhibition of Thought is a case in point. Often, the individual is unable to express himself, not only in verbal expression, I work or play, but even in his thinking. He becomes unresponsive to things about him, is unable to take a stand on matters of importance, or even to work out details that require his attention.
There are a number of reasons for this inhibition of the thought process. In some cases it is because of a fear of failure. Without effort effort there can be no criticism of failure, even though there is no success either. But at least there is no way of knowing whether or not you can do whatever is done.
Then, there is the feeling of guilt which keeps a person from giving expression to his thoughts. They are so painful, because of the guilt he feels, that it is safer to eliminate all thought. We call this, in psychological terms, a factor of repression. Unfortunately, repressed thoughts have a nasty way of bubbling to the surface in some other ways, such as slips of the tongue, dreams and the effects of drinking.
In some cases, parental domination has been so great in childhood that the individual now a biologically mature person has not learned how to think for himself or else has inhibited his thinking for fear of retaliation, ridicule or scorn. As an adult, he now fees it safer to bury himself in listening to others, the reading of certain parts of the daily newspaper, or in watching television.
One does not have to be an architect, engineer, poet, composer or an inventory to give freedom to his thinking. Freedom of expression is basic to every mature individual. He needs it for his happiness, for his emotional maturity, for good citizenship, and for his interpersonal relationships., It is as important to be able to find some means of releasing one’s thoughts as it is to be able to direct them into suitable channels. The two go hand in hand.
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(Movie critique)
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 8
The perfect answer to the question, “What’s wrong with the movies?” was given one night last week by a little man in a Los Angeles theatre. After the trailer was over, he whispered to his wife: “Always the good picture comes next week.
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Dec. 22 City of Hope Blood Bank Day at Local Red Cross
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 8
Your blood is needed to help the leukemic children at the City of Hope. Go to the Red Cross Blood Bank at 4th and Upas on Wednesday, December 22nd, from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
You can seat a full meal four hours before being a blood donor but in the interim just have fruit juice and black coffee – no food.
Let’s have a line a block long all day at the Blood Bank – please give so that children may live!
Need transportation? Phone: Muriel, JU-3-0788, or Jeanne, BE-4-9595.
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Home for Aged Building Now Under Construction, Slated to Open June ‘55
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 8
Construction has started on the new Hebrew Home for the Aged, located on 54th St., one block north of University Ave., according to Victor Schulman, president of the Home. The new structure is scheduled to be completed by June of 1955 and will contain accommodations for approximately 35 guests. The building will be in excess of 16,000 square feet and will, in addition to living rooms, have a central dining room, a main lounge, a chapel, a visitors lounge, superintendent’s quarters, and a 4-bed infirmary. The main lounge will be separated from the patio by a sliding wall to make possible indoor and outdoor activities.
According to Max Maisel, chairman of the building committee, and Milo Berenson, the cost of the building will be less than $10.00 per square foot. Architect for the building is Edward Ullrich, and contractor is B.O. Larsen.
The plans for the building which will include the latest in facilities and design for aging people, have been approved by the State Social Services Department.
The committee is now negotiating the sale of the present property of the Home at 2750 Fourth Ave.
Interim financing has been arranged with the expectation that funds will be raised before the completion of the new Home.
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Bay City BB’s Sponsor United Nations Dinner
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 8
A dinner sponsored by the United Nations Committee of Bay City B.B. Women with Mrs. Eugene Sacks as chairman will feature foods of over 14 nations. It will be prepared by Jean Schriebman, Ruth Bloom, Rose Kaufman, Ruth Silverstein, Rose Schwartz, Natalie Meyers, Audrey Sack, Ruth Sax, Freida Hollandersky, Rose Felsman, Estyr Cahan, Ida Addis, Reva Garvin, and Love Marie Sacks.
The Dinner which will be held on Monday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 3227 El Cajon Blvd., is part of a United Nations program featured that evening.
Mrs. Jack Meyers, president, extends a most cordial invitation to all members and prospective members to make their reservations as quickly as possible with Sarah Shannahoff—JU 2-7239 or Estyr Cahan –HO 9-6512.
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Israeli To Speak for Hadassah
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 12, 1954, Page 8
The Discussion Group of the San Diego Chapter of Hadassah will present Mr. Chaim Dagan as guest speaker.
Mr. Dagan, a member of the Ministry of Education in Israel, is in the United States observing the American educational system. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Leonard Liebermann, 3504 Dumas Street.
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“Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” is sponsored by Inland Industries Group LP in memory of long-time San Diego Jewish community leader Marie (Mrs. Gabriel) Berg. Our “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” series will be a regular feature until we run out of history. To find stories on specific individuals or organizations, type their names in our search box.
Book review: Combatting jealousy, the monster within us
Benny The Big Shot by Tehilla Deutsch, illustrations by Vitaliy Romanenko, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 2010, 25 pages including glossary, ISBN 978-1-59826-468-5, $12.99.
By Donald H. Harrison
Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO — With school soon to go back into session, this is an enjoyable, cautionary, tale about how students must struggle against becoming jealous of each other. Although set in a Orthodox Jewish day school, the moral applies to students no matter what kind of school they attend—parochial, private or public.
This rhymed tale is about Benny, the new kid in school, who has no trouble answering the questions posed by the rabbi that stump the rest of the all-boys class. Although he is quiet, and not a braggart, his constant academic successes are especially irksome to the narrator, his classmate Tzvi.
So while Benny was giving an answer one day,
I whispered to my neighbor, Avraham Kay.
“Take a look at who’s showing off once again,
It’s the one and the only Big Shot Ben!”
Then Kay passed the joke on the Aryeh Leib Pretter,
And that made me feel just a little bit better.
The story goes on to explain the concepts of lashan ha-ra (evil speech, gossip) and kin’ah (jealousy). It races toward a conclusion when the rabbi announces that whoever does best on a certain test would win a prize—two admission tickets to a local amusement park. Tzvi decides he will study harder than ever before just to do better than Benny.
Benny, unaware of Tzvi’s feelings, does his normal best and triumphs in a competition he didn’t even know he was in. But, then he does something else: he asks Tzvi if he would please accompany him to the amusement park, explaining that he admires Tzvi for how easily he makes friends and hopes to be his friend too.
The positive gesture turns the relationship around. And Tzvi learns a valuable lesson. Everyone in the class has a special talent, or unique feature of his personality, that makes him special. One boy is funny, another is a good baseball player, another is quite strong.
It’s important for children, as well as for some adults, to learn that we are not diminished by other people’s successes. We ought not feel jealous if someone else wins a scholarship, or the lead role in a play, or a job promotion. Our own opportunity to make a positive contribution to society may be just up there ahead.
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Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World
Commentary: Parallels between Johnson’s failed presidency and Obama’s.
By Ira Sharkansky
Ira Sharkansky
JERUSALEM — There is a troubling item in the New York Times that describes “the Obama administration pouring billions into its nationwide campaign to overhaul failing schools, dozens of companies with little or no experience are portraying themselves as school-turnaround experts as they compete for the money.”
If the budget says spend $X on program Y, there is internal pressure to get it done. It is not so much a government giveaway as shoveling money out the door.
It reminds me of Community Action.
It may not have been the War on Poverty that ended the Johnson Administration, but it did not help. One can argue about which element of that presidency has contributed more to sully its reputation over the subsequent years.
One of the undisputed goods of that period are the social policies that have put the Obamas in the White House, and Black faces in corporate board rooms, university faculty offices, the staffs of distinguished hospitals and law firms, and in the roles representing those functions on popular television shows. Yet there remain the wreckages of Black lives and those of other minorities.
There are pictures circulating of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Detroit in 1945 and today that portray sparkling cityscapes in Japan and a wrecked Detroit
For those who don’t get the message, one of the items concludes with “What has caused more long term destruction – the A-bomb, or U. S. Government welfare programs created to buy the votes of those who want someone to take care of them?”
Americans are a long way from knowing what they will gain and lose from the administration’s 2,000 page health reform, along with federal administrative rulings, state actions, as well as adjustments by insurance companies, HMOs, private physicians, and what the courts will say about the above.
The NYT has documented some of the unresolved questions of who will get what, at how much cost, and when will we finally know?
No one should accuse the NYT of being anti-social, anti-Democratic, or anti-Obama. However, it has reported about the continuing problems of a war that seems unwinable, as well as the follies in congressional/White House logrolling and public administration.
Americans may be seeing a repeat of the bad war and problematic social policy of the 1960s, this time in the presence of persistent unemployment, a large debt overhang, and all those tea parties.
Things are not looking any better in a region of the world claimed as a priority.
The Brookings Institution is reporting a poll of public opinion in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates, during the period of June 29–July 20, 2010. Among its findings:
“Early in the Obama administration, in April and May 2009, 51% of the respondents in the six countries expressed optimism about American policy in the Middle East. In the 2010 poll, only 16% were hopeful, while a majority – 63% – was discouraged.”
The Arab public also has not gotten the administration’s message about Iran. “In 2009, only 29% of those polled said that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would be “positive” for the Middle East; in 2010, 57% of those polled indicate that such an outcome would be “positive” for the Middle East.” The governments in most of the countries surveyed have expressed strong opposition to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Go figure.
There has been a stability of feeling from 2008 to the present about the prospects of a lasting peace between Israel and Palestinians. Again, the signs do not give the American president what he wants. 50-55 percent feel it will never happen, and 27-40 percent say that it is inevitable, but will take more time.
The Palestinians have refused to begin direct negotiations with Israel, and the Israelis have refused any concessions without direct negotiations.
It is hard to blame either the the Palestinians or the Israelis for those postures. They both are reacting to political realities more than Americans and others still pushing for direct negotiations. Only the naive can expect something more positive than angry frustration to result for such talks in the presence of Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, and Syria, plus a weak Palestinian Authority and a suspicious Israel.
The Americans may have to prepare themselves for a short presidency. We’ll get an some fresh tea leaves to read on November 2nd.
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Sharkansky is professor emeritus of political science at Hebrew University
Commentary: Inappropriate for U.S. State Department to send Muslim cleric to Arab countries
By Shoshana Bryen
Shoshana Bryen
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The State Department has confirmed that Feisal Abdul Rauf – who wants to be the imam of a mosque at Ground Zero – is taking a State Department funded trip to the Middle East to foster “greater understanding” about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States.
“He is a distinguished Muslim cleric,” said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. “I think we are in the process of arranging for him to travel as part of this program, and it is to foster a greater understanding about the region around the world among Muslim-majority communities.” Rauf is reportedly going to Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar.
What a load of hooey.
We know a lot of rabbis, some ministers and a few priests. We would be appalled to have the government of the United States, which by law favors no religion, sending a rabbi to Israel – or the former Soviet Union or France or Argentina, where there are communities of Jews – to talk about how Jews live in the United States. Having a priest travel to the Vatican, Honduras, Ireland or the Philippines to describe the lives of American Catholics would be outrageous. Likewise, ministers to Sweden.
What business is it of the American government to send a Muslim to Muslim-majority countries to talk about Islam? How offensive is it to think that the American government is using American tax dollars to fly a non-government person around the world to promote the activities and lifestyle of a particular religion? Better to send a non-Muslim American government official to talk about American religious freedom, cultural diversity and the virtues of the secular, democratic state.
To the speculation that Rauf will engage in fund raising for the proposed mosque at Ground Zero, Mr. Crowley said, “That would not be something he could do as part of our program,” he said.
We’re so relieved. And we’re so sure he will do only as the American government desires.
But Debra Burlingame, a 9/11 family member told The New York Post, “‘We know he has a fund-raising association with Saudi Arabia,’ … noting that the Saudis have contributed money to underwrite programs by the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a not-for-profit that Abdul Rauf runs with his wife and that is one of the sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque. ‘He’s going to the well, and how can they say they do or don’t know what he’s doing?'”
To be entirely clear, JINSA believes Ground Zero is a battlefield cemetery – the site of a battle for the liberal democratic state. We oppose the building of a Muslim sectarian monument there because regardless of what its supporters say, it will be widely understood in the Muslim world as a battlefield monument in the name of Islam.
Does the State Department really think Rauf (who said in English that the United States bears responsibility for 9-11) will tell the Saudis, Bahrainis and Qataris that he is building a monument to cultural understanding, interfaith relations and peace in New York because America is a good, safe and decent place for Muslims as long as they understand the secular, democratic nature of the United States? And that he doesn’t want their money because Americans will fund the mosque?
And how will the State Department know?
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Bryen is senior director of security policy of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Her column is sponsored by Waxie Sanitary Supply in memory of Morris Wax, longtime JINSA supporter and national board member.
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, December 10, 1954, Part 3
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
Hi ya, gang!
Judy Aved’s house was the center of attraction when she had a really “terrif” party for all of her friends. Dinner, dancing and oodles of fun were really “eaten” up by all. All the guys and gals say “thanks Judy” for a fine evening.
The T.Y.L played host to a Temple Youth Group from Los Angeles this past weekend. A wonderful time was had by all who attended the program. The T.Y.L. is planning many more entertaining affairs. Why don’t you plan to come and get in on the fun.
The Commissioner’s Ball of Hoover High School was an evening of real enjoyment. The affair was held at the Coronado Hotel. To start the evening with a bang Henrietta Faguet planned a terrific cocktail party for her friends. “Nashing and shoosing” were Henrietta and Ronny Doctor, Roberta Wylogue ‘n Stan Breitbard, Harriet Silverman ‘n Art Pogrell, Susan Solof ‘n Roger Brenes, Diane Fogelman ‘n Alan Freidman, Janice Klaskin ‘n Sandy Ratner, Adrian Sachnoff ‘n Harry Ratner, Barbara Silverman ‘n Buddy Kader, Barbara Bogey ‘n Gary Cantor.
Scoop: Sherry Newman won many honors at the speech contest at State College . She placed 2nd as best speaker of the day.
Susan Solof was recently elected Sophomore Song Leader at San Diego High.
Kids, please phone your scoop to CY 5-0679.
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Jewish Community Center News
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
Winter Day Camp – Parents are urged to register their youngsters for the Winter Camp Jaycee program by Dec. 15. The Day Camp committee requests early registration for either the one or two week period in order to complete plans for an enjoyable and exciting program for the youngsters. The age limit will be from 5 to 11 years with each grouping being organized according to youngsters’ ability and interest. Among the staff members will be former Day Camp Counselors Dave Anfanger, Mike Soule and Sonny Denberg. Arrangements for indoor swimming have been made with the Y.M.C.A. and other special events are being planned. The fee for Center members is $10.00 per week with an additional charge for pick up and delivery service.
Nominating Notice – “Nominations for the board may be made by petition, signed by 10 members in good standing. Such petitions should be in the hands of the nominating committee at least one week before the annual meeting.”
The by-laws of the Center provide for the above procedure in the nomination for board membership . Notice is hereby given that the Center annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the Federation of Jewish Agencies annual meeting on Sunday, January 16. Therefore the chairman of the nominating committee, Al Solomon, requests all petitions be given to the Center office, 3227 El Cajon Blvd. by Jan. 7.
Center Membership Meeting –The adult members of the Jewish Community Center are invited to attend a Center membership meeting on Wednesday, Dec 15 at 8:15 p.m. at 3227 El Cajon Blvd. The program of the meeting will be to review Center activities and policies, to hear a report of future Center plans and to see movies of the activities of the Buffalo Jewish Community Centers. For the parents of Junior High youngsters, a special film telling a story of two junior high school boys will be shown. Refreshments will be served.
(Horse drawn Wagons)
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
A historical collection of horse drawn wagons has been donated to the Southern California Exposition at Del Mar by Roscoe E. Hazard, long-time resident of San Diego.
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Center Nursery School Prepares For Holidays
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
The semi-annual elections of the Cooperative Nursery School of the Jewish Community Center were held Dec. 2 at the home of Mrs. Lester Friedman. Elected were: President, Mrs. John B. Gregory; 1st V.P., Mrs. Marion Dimas; 2nd V.P., Mrs. Bert Eifer; Secretary, Mrs. Mike Dowling; Treasurer, Mrs. Lee Phillips; Education Director, Mrs. Melvin Karzan; Public Relations Chairman, Mrs. Marvin L. Stein; Housekeeper, Mrs. June Callicoat; Equipment Chairman, Mrs. Peter Clemmons.
Plans were formulated to celebrate the forthcoming holidays—Chanukah, Christmas and Las Posadas. On Friday, Dec. 24th, the children will break a piñata, light a menorah and sign songs, dance and play the games appropriate to these holidays. Refreshments will be served in the Center and hand made gifts will be exchanged. Murals with the appropriate symbols, decorations of the holiday colors will all be made by the children.
Parents and guests have been invited to attend the program of inter-faith relations among the children of nursery school years. The Tri-holiday celebration will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Jewish Community center on 3227 El Cajon Blvd.
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Gossip
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
Gossip is a way of saying nothing and still leaving nothing unsaid.
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Hadassah To Play Games At Luncheon
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
A Chanukah luncheon party will be held by the San Diego Chapter of Hadassah on Wednesday, December 15, at 12 p.m. at the Temple Center. Following a short business meeting, the afternoon will be devoted to fun, Bingo, Mah Jong or Scrabble.
According to Mrs. M.S. Berlin, chairman, and Mrs. M. Samuels, co-chairman, it will be an afternoon of requests – just “name it and we’ll have it.” The committee, consisting of Mmes. David Millsberg, Maurice Krasnow, Laura Felvin, David Pomerance, Sidney Segal, Al Young, Rae Feurzeig, Ray Feurzeig, Moe Hershey, Sam Lennett and Jack Rosenblum, are mostly new members who are working on a committee for the first time. They are trying to make their first effort a real success.
Reservations must be made – Mrs. A. Slayen, HO 9-4434 and Mrs. M. Samuels at JU-2-7051. Tables will be reserved for parties or individuals. The climax of the afternoon will be a lovely door prize.
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Cottage of Israel
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 5
The public is cordially invited to visit the Cottage of Israel during the Chanukah festivals as there will be a special display to commemorate the festival of lights. The Cottage is open every Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m.
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Birdie Stodel Women To Have Interesting Speaker At Tea Dec. 11
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 6
The Birdie Stodel Chapter of B’nai B’rith Women will hold an “Oneg Shabbat” afternoon tea on Saturday, December 11, at 1:00 p.m. at the Alice Birney School Auditorium.
The program, co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and Americanism and Civic Affairs Chairmen, Mrs. George Starr and Mrs. Irving Dean respectively, will feature as its principal speaker Mrs. Ben Rosenthal of Los Angeles, immediate past president of the Women’ Supreme Council of B’nai B’rith. Mrs. Rosenthal has recently returned from an extensive tour of the Radio-Free Europe Installations in Germany and adjoining countries, sponsored by the American Heritage Foundation. Her message highlights a bus tour through Russian Occupied Berlin, a report on Radio-Free Europe and her visit to Dachau.
As an additional special feature the film “Your Neighbor Celebrates” will be shown. An open forum will follow the program and traditional Chanukah delicacies will be served.
An invitation is extended to all civic, educational and religious groups to participate as guests of Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith Women.
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Temple Men’s Club
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 6
Temple Beth Israel Men’s Club will participate in the Sabbath services Friday evening, Dec. 10, at Temple Beth Israel.
Mack Esterson will speak on “What the Men’s Club Means to the Temple” and Richard Silberman will discuss “What the Men’s Club Means to Me.”
Following the services the Officers and Board Members and their wives will welcome members of the Congregation at the social hour in the Temple Center.
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Chaim Weizmann Branch Poale Zion
Southwestern Jewish Press, December 10, 1954, Page 6
In place of our monthly cultural meeting, a Chanukah Party will be held on Sunday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Center. Card games will be played and traditional Chanukah refreshments will be served. For any further information call MRs. B. Mallen at AT 2-2241 who is chairman for the evening. There will be a nominal entrée charge and all our members are invited to attend and bring their friends for a most pleasant social evening.
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Plan gains to recognize campus harassment of Jewish students as a Civil Rights violation
NEW YORK (Press Release)—The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises U.S. Reps. Michael E. McMahon (D-NY) and Gary C. Peters (D-MI) for urging the Department of Education to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation.
In a letter sent Monday, August 9, to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Reps. McMahon and Peters joined three dozen other Members of Congress in supporting the ZOA’s long-held position that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be enforced to protect Jewish students, consistent with policy statements issued by the Department’s Office for Civil Rights in 2004. Title VI requires recipients of federal funding to ensure that their programs and activities are free from racial and ethnic discrimination.
In July 2010, 36 Members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary Duncan, urging that Jewish students be protected from harassment and intimidation under Title VI.
The two congressional letters to Secretary Duncan followed from a well-attended June 2010 congressional briefing convened by U.S Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL), co-chair of the Congressional Taskforce on Anti-Semitism. Susan Tuchman, Director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, and representatives from three other organizations, briefed congressional staffers on anti-Semitic harassment on U.S. college campuses and the federal government’s role in addressing these incidents.
In addition to Rep. Klein, the July letter to Secretary Duncan was signed by the other co-chairs of the Congressional Taskforce on Anti-Semitism — Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ ) – and by Carolyn Maloney (D-NY); Shelley Berkley (D-NV); Gary Ackerman (D-NY); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL); Ted Deutch (D-FL): Keith Ellison (D-MN); Jan Schakowsky (D-IL); Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL); Brad Sherman (D-CA); Kendrick Meek (D-FL); Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL); Allyson Schwartz (D-PA); Henry Waxman (D-CA); John Adler (D-NJ); Alan Grayson (D-FL); Kathy Castor (D-FL); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); Rush Holt (D-NJ); Jackie Speier (D-CA); Steve Israel (D-NY); Steve Kagen (D-WI); Doug Lamborn (R-CO); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY); Jared Polis (D-CO); Michele Bachmann (R-MN); Anthony Weiner (D-NY); Sander Levin (D-MI); Steve Rothman (D-NJ); Buck McKeon (R-CA); John Yarmuth (D-KY); Adam Schiff (D-CA); and Howard L. Berman (D-CA).
Their letter stated: “We believe that enforcing Title VI to protect Jewish students who, in rare but highly significant situations, face harassment, intimidation or discrimination based on their ancestral or ethnic characteristics – including when it is manifested as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist sentiment that crosses the line into anti-Semitism – would help ensure that we’re preserving the integrity of our higher education system by affording the same protection to all ethnic and racial groups on our college campuses.”
Endorsing this congressional letter “in its entirety,” Reps. McMahon and Peters said in their letter to Secretary Duncan, “It is critical that our civil rights laws be enforced as broadly as possible to make sure that all students can obtain their education in an environment that is tolerant, respectful, physically and emotionally safe, and conducive to learning.”
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein praised Reps. McMahon and Peters for calling on the Department of Education to provide Jewish students with the same legal protections that other ethnic and racial groups are already afforded:
“We know from our work on college campuses that Jewish students have been threatened and physically assaulted. Some students are even afraid for their physical safety because of the hateful speakers and programs that demonize Jews and Israel. The ZOA thanks Congressmen McMahon and Peters for joining their colleagues in the House in supporting these students and affirming their legal right to a campus environment free from anti-Semitic hostility and Israel-bashing.”
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State Department urges Iran to respect its citizens’ fundamental freedoms
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a statement from the U.S. State Department:
The United States is deeply concerned that Iran continues to deny its citizens their civil rights and intimidate and detain those Iranians who seek to hold their government accountable and stand up for the rights of their fellow citizens.
We remain troubled by the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who garnered international attention for her verdict of death by stoning. While the Iranian Government later stated she would not face execution by stoning, her fate is unclear. We are also troubled by reports that Ebrahim Hamidi, an 18-year old charged with homosexuality, faces imminent execution despite the fact that he is currently without legal representation.
Neither case has proceeded with the transparency or due process enshrined in Iran’s own constitution, and their lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, felt that he had to flee Iran after he was questioned by authorities and his family members were detained.
We are also concerned about the fate of Iranians who are in danger of imminent execution for exercising their right to free expression after the June 2009 elections, including Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Haj Aghaei, and Javad Lari. The United States urges the Iranian Government to halt these executions in accordance with its obligations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and calls for the immediate release of all political prisoners and imprisoned human rights defenders.
The United States will continue to stand with people around the world who seek to exercise their universal rights and speak out in defense of human liberties.
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