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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

*Lynne Elson of Rancho Bernardo, California, is back from a trip to the village of Nabagoye, Uganda, where she taught Hebrew to a group of school children belonging to the Abayudaya Jewish community.  The story by Yuxing Zheng is in today's San Diego Union-Tribune.

*Rabbi Micha Odenheimer is founder of Tevel B'Tzedek (Earth in Justice), a program designed to take teaching about conservationism and social justice all over the world. The program has been making headway in Nepal.  The story by Karin Kloosterman is on the Israel 21c website.


*Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel is ready to hand over responsibility for security on the West Bank to the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas provided sufficient assurances for Israel's security and Hamas is not permitted to become involved.  Aluf Benn has the story on the Ha'aretz website. 

*Gloria Penner's "Full Focus" news show has been cancelled by KPBS-TV, as has the KPBS radio program "A Way With Words." Although some people involved with the two shows now are jobless, the venerable Penner survives.  Scott Lewis of Voice of San Diego has the story.


*Harry Maxwell Rady, 40, has pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to charges of purchasing $10,000 worth of weapons from an unlicensed gun dealer.  A story by Will Carless is in today's Voice of San Diego. Another story by Greg Moran, reporting that he purchased the weapons after his parents, philanthropists Ernest and Evelyn Rady were tied up during a home invasion robbery, appeared in today's San Diego Union-Tribune.






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