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Saturday, September 1
 

CYBER-REFERRALS—San Diego Jewish World appreciates and thanks those individuals and organizations which recommend or post stories of interest to the worldwide Jewish community:

●San Diego Union-Tribune: An Associated Press story about Holocaust survivors who have become philanthropists and now are helping to reestablish life in their native Poland. Here is the link.


 JEWISH POLITICAL FIGURES

● U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Democrat, Illinois) and U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) have appealed to the federal Environmental Protection Agency to overrule a decision by the Department of Environmental Management in the neighboring state of Indiana to permit British Petroleum to emit more than double the amount of particulate matter into the air at its Whiting, Indiana, refinery.  "Particulate matter can cause serious respiratory illnesses and aggravate conditions such as asthma," the two legislators wrote.  "The air permit issued by IDEM for BP's Whiting facility also would allow the refinery to increase the amount of carbon monoxide it discharges into the atmosphere."


PEERING OVER THE DIVIDE—The Middle East Cultural and Information Center is hosting a $15-per-person dinner at the Normal Heights Community Center, Saturday, Sept. 22, at which two Arab speakers and an Iranian music group (Darvak Music Ensemble) will be featured. The speakers are Khalil Bendib, an editorial cartoonist whose book is entitled Mission Accomplished, and Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian activist against whom a federal deportation case was dismissed. This event is sponsored by Alternate Focus, which produces television programming on the Dish Network.  More information is available via the organization's website, www.alternatefocus.org

Sunday, September 2
 

CYBER-REFERRALS—San Diego Jewish World appreciates and thanks those individuals and organizations which recommend or post stories of interest to the worldwide Jewish community:

● Bruce Kesler: A review in The Observer of The King's Most Loyal Enemy  Aliens by Helen Fry.  Here is the link.

●San Diego Union-Tribune: A story by Tony Manolatos about the growing violence of neo-Nazis in the Lakeside area of San Diego County.  Here is the link.

●Shahar Masori: A feature in the San Francisco Chronicle about Zebulon Simentov, the last Jew in Afghanistan. Here is the link.

JEWISH OFFICEHOLDERS

●U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein  (Democrat, California) has a private bill to award citizenship to Jacqueline Coats of Kenya, whose husband, Marlin, lost his life trying to save two boys from riptides off the San Francisco coast  Because she had  not instituted immigration proceedings before he died, Coats is not eligible to stay in the country without such intervention.

Monday, September 3
 

CYBER-REFERRALS—San Diego Jewish World appreciates and thanks those individuals and organizations which recommend or post stories of interest to the worldwide Jewish community:

 ● Bruce Lowitt: An article on Salon.com on the best 18 Jewish baseball players of all time.  Here is the link.

● Cable News Network reports that the leader of Fatah al-Islam, Shaker al-Abbsi, may have been among 39 killed when Lebanese troops stormed  a refugee camp which it had under siege.  DNA tests will be required to verify.  Here is the link.

JEWISH PUBLIC OFFICIALS
 ● U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter