By Laurie Baron
MARGATE, New Jersey‒ The Palestinian Authority has dropped its request to UNESCO to designate the Western Wall as a Muslim Holy site. This followed a request by Israel to declare Medina a Jewish holy site because Mohammed executed the Jews of the Banu Qurayza there after the Battle of the Trench.
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Rabbinic Guidance to Jewish Cub Fans: You are commanded to rip your Cub jerseys and mourn until opening day of the next baseball season. Keep telling yourselves, “I believe in the Messiah even though he/she may tarry.”
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After watching Hillary’s grueling eleven hour interrogation by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Donald Trump warned that that if he were president, he never would consent to being questioned by any Congressional committee for longer than two hours.
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Holocaust scholars throughout the world have criticized Bibi Netanyahu for erroneously claiming that the Mufti of Jerusalem persuaded Hitler to exterminate the Jews. Apparently Bibi has become so ensconced in right-wing Republican politics that he has been taking history lessons from Ben Carson.
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Impressed by the fear the current wave of stabbings in Israel has generated in the country, Iran has decided to halt its nuclear energy program and concentrate on manufacturing knives.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. Currently serving as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey, he may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.