A Shabbat dinner offers an opportunity to experience Jewish tradition, share a meal, and take a break from everyday busyness. (Cailin Acosta)
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Three casually dressed gunmen shouting “Allahu Akbar” opened fire on a funeral procession at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Hmoud in southern Jordan. Seven people were confirmed dead after the barrage and between 30 and 40 others were injured, with two of those wounded in critical condition. The unidentified assailants made their escape. (SDJW staff)
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By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California Every election season reminds us of the sacred, slightly stressful weight of a single vote. We line up, sticker in hand, trusting that an individual mark on a piece of paper matters. If you ever doubt whether one lone soul can pivot the course of
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In 1955 we got a reliable white and black Chevrolet, a two-door sedan with hand crank windows, automatic transmission, no radio or air conditioning. A 1956 family road trip to Carmel, San Francisco, the Redwoods and Tahoe resulted in our only scrapbook with Brownie camera photographs and ephemera, napkins, matchbooks, menus, postcards, park receipts, a “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” story. We took pictures of driving through a Redwood tree, and President Eisenhower waving to the crowd from a car at a Monterey golf course. (Oliveer B. Pollak)
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Sessions titled “Dezionizing the U.S. University,” “Zionism Is Racism: Introducing the Critical Zionism Studies Syllabus,” “Against Zionist and White Nationalist Attacks on the Academy,” and “Resisting Zionism: Anticolonial Feminist Pedagogy and Practice” are particularly troubling. Collectively, they portray Zionism as racist, dangerous, or an ideology to be dismantled, with little apparent opportunity for competing perspectives. (Press Release)
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Gummo Marx (October 23, 1892 – April 21, 1977) was an American vaudeville performer, theatrical agent and businessman. He was the fourth-born of the five Marx Brothers. Born in Manhattan, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, leaving the act when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 during World War I and replaced by his brother Zeppo. [Wikipedia]
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President Donald Trump at an Iowa rally called on Omar to resign her House seat following disclosure that she used another name — Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar — in a recent court filing. Her former husband is named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. (SDJW staff report)
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The celebrated author has written a series of books about a heroine, Misery Chastain. Though the novels have brought him success and acclaim, he is eager to write something fresh, a complete departure from his 19th-century epic. Leaving the Victorian era behind, Sheldon writes a novel about life in Manhattan, filled with obscenities and graphic descriptions of New Yorkers. (Eva Trieger)
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During the papal audience, the delegation presented Pope Leo with Honoring a Sacred Relationship, artwork commissioned by AJC and created by Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz, Izzy Pludwinski, and Yair Medina in Jerusalem. The piece depicts a powerful excerpt from Nostra Aetate—the 1965 Vatican declaration that revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations by rejecting antisemitism, affirming Judaism’s eternal covenant with God, and building new bridges of understanding—in both the original Latin and the official Hebrew translation… (Press Release)
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Engel’s music and that of five of his fellow composers in the Jewish Folk Song Society (JFSS) will be heard, as well as the music of one of the Russian teachers who inspired the group, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov. In addition, we will hear the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Holocaust-era Polish-born Jewish composer, who settled in the Soviet Union. [Eileen Wingard]
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On Friday, a 63-year-old Boston-born woman who is a Washington Post photographer was severely beaten by settlers. The next day, settlers assaulted two Arabs in another village in front of diplomats visiting from France, Poland, and Belgium. (Bruce S. Tocker)
Jerome Howard (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was a member of The Three Stooges comedy team, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp Howard, as well as vaudevillian Larry Fine. [Wikipedia]
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Avraham’s journey came without a guarantee that the road would be easy. Neither does ours. But we don’t need to see the entire road to take the next step. (Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.)
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and FoodBritish authorities rearrested two of the seven men suspected of plotting against RAF Fairford air base from which American bombers took off earlier this year on bombing runs over Iran. [SDJW staff]
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