The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism commented on an interview Axios aired today with Hasan Piker, a streamer and political commentator who has long stoked controversy with his comments about American Jews. [SDJW staff report]
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A new study conducted jointly by the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) and Shaare Zedek Medical Center offers encouraging findings, showing that advanced diabetes technologies may enable many people with type 1 diabetes to fast safely. (Press Release)
As women, so much of our lives can be spent caring for others. We remember birthdays, answer messages, make plans, offer support, and notice what everyone else needs. We often carry more than anyone realizes. [Cailin Acosta]
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When they reached
the foot of Moriah,
the father could no longer
bear to look his son
in the eyes— … [Sam Ben-Meir]
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The sukkah also recalls the Israelites’ years in the desert, where they lived in temporary shelters and relied upon Hashem for protection. Its temporary nature provides a physical reminder that security does not come exclusively from walls and roofs. (Cailin Acosta)
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He believes that hormone deficiency in older marines, sailors, and soldiers accounts for why Iran was not beaten into total submission in four to five weeks as President Trump initially predicted. (Laurie Baron)
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Toxic faith feeds on certainty, alienates the seeker, and destroys personal conscience. It builds walls of “Us versus Them,” viewing anyone on the other side not as a fellow bearer of the divine image, but as a blasphemer to be corrected, conquered, or erased. (Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel)
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After accepting the basic premise that the book is written from the viewpoint of Death, who turns out to be an individual with ideas, emotions and principles, we are told about a train journey somewhere in Germany on a cold winter’s day. (Dorothea Shefer-Vanson)
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Bottom line, it’s a feel-good show worth seeing, fun for the whole family. Even people who don’t usually like musicals reported enjoying this one. (Sandi Masori)
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June Foray (September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of animated characters such as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Lucifer from Disney’s Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, Grammi Gummi from Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears series, and Magica De Spell, among many others. [Wikipedia]
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On Friday, September 13, 1991, a couple of days before Yom Kippur, it suddenly hit me: next Monday, September 16, was the Day of Atonement. I don’t observe most religious holidays or rules, but on Yom Kippur I don’t eat, I don’t work, and I go to the synagogue for the Yizkor memorial prayer. Even back in the Soviet Union, I was Jewish twice a year: on Passover and Yom Kippur. [Yakov Nayerman]
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The Jewish Federation of San Diego this week premiered its Sparks Interactive mobile Holocaust museum to the students, faculty and staff of Canyon Hills High School in the Tierrasanta neighborhood of San Diego. (SDJW staff)
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The anti-Israel mob concocted a novel legal strategy on Monday when former Columbia University students sued their alma mater: the defendant mobilized a pattern of “deliberate indifference.” (Bruce S. Ticker)
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University for ‘deliberate indifference’ Read More »
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Moses Gaster (September 17, 1856 – March 5, 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. [Wikipedia]
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