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For 80 years, Camp Jaycee has shaped generations of Jewish San Diegans — from camper to counselor, from child to ...
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San Diego Jewish Academy Students Advance in Entrepreneurship Competition
Three student teams from San Diego Jewish Academy have advanced past the first round of applications for the internationally recognized Diamond Challenge, one ...
- Israel gives in to the politics of debasementA small episode this week crystallized the broader pathology of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu more clearly than any grand speech or ideological argument ever could: the Knesset vote for state comptroller, one of the most sensitive institutional positions in Israeli public life. In Israel, the 120 members of the Knesset elect the comptroller by... […]
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