-Everybody’s got a story to tell, yet not everyone has the opportunity or chutzpah to share it. Trinity Theatre Company is providing this opportunity with its Third Annual New Works Festival. [Eva Trieger]
Trinity Theatre Company to Introduce 14 New Playwrights Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
The legacy media, aka mainstream media, has harbored a severe anti-Israel bias for decades. It holds Israel to a different standard than any other country, except maybe the US. In fact, it holds Israel to an impossible and deeply hypocritical standard. [Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort]
OpEd: Mainstream Media Abets Antisemitism Read More »
Antisemitism, International, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
StandWithUs condemns the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) board’s decision to approve a $90,000 contract with Community Responsive Education (CRE) – a consultant that promotes “liberated” ethnic studies in K-12 schools. [Oleg Ivanov]
Why teach the Holocaust? Because memory fades. Survivors age. And hatred, sadly, persists. Antisemitism has not been relegated to the past. [Darren Schwartz]
3 Yamim in April: From Catastrophe through Sacrifice to Rebirth Read More »
Antisemitism, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Antisemitism on college campuses is a genuine crisis that demands serious attention, but we are concerned about the extent and scope of the current approach taken by the Administration to Harvard. [Jonathan Greenblatt]
“It’s the final countdown!” I don’t know about you, but my broom has stayed in the kitchen and dining room for the past couple of days sweeping up the matzo crumbs from every meal. [Cailin Acosta]
Passover Nears End; So Too Does Tending to Matzo Crumbs Read More »
Cailin Acosta, Holocaust, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Élisabeth Borne (April 18, 1961) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from May 2022 to January 2024. A member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party Renaissance, she is the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister after Édith Cresson, who served from 1991 to 1992. [Wikipedia]
Today’s Jewish Birthday: Elisabeth Borne Read More »
International, Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia
The structure of Toaff’s story, essentially, is Moisè’s reading and reaction to the revelations in his father’s candid and mostly unapologetic autobiography. [Donald H. Harrison]
A Rabbi Discovers His Father’s Perfidy in This Italian Novel Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Staff and Bylined Contributors
To be really heard is not just about you speaking your truth to a quiet listener. It also depends on the quality of attention of the listener. [Shayna Kaufmann, Ph.D]
Qualities of a Really Good Listener Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lifestyles, Shayna Kaufmann, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
The Court noted that the speech in question related to matters of public concern and advocacy and firmly stated that constitutionally protected speech cannot be the basis for a civil protection order. [Press Release]
Case Study: Doxxer Loses Seattle Court Case Read More »
Israel, Press Release, USA
Wow! Wow! Wow! Every once in a while you get to see a show that is so amazing, so well done, so flowing and funny, that you know you’re witnessing the birth of something huge. [Sandi Masori]
If ‘Regency Girls’ Doesn’t Make You Laugh, Nothing Will Read More »
San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Enzo Sereni (April 17, 1905 – 18 November 1944) was an Italian Socialist Zionist, co-founder of kibbutz Givat Brenner, celebrated intellectual, advocate of Jewish-Arab co-existence and a Jewish Brigade officer who was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy during World War II, captured by the Germans and executed in Dachau concentration camp. [Wikipedia]
Today’s Jewish Birthday: Enzo Sereni Read More »
International, Israel, Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia
As a pulpit rabbi, I frequently engage with congregants navigating the intricate landscape of identity in America, sometimes hearing the complex sentiment, “I am an American first, a Jew second.” [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
The Case for ‘Dual Loyalty’ Read More »
Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Despite Leviticus dealing with the no longer existing tabernacle and the priests who functioned in it, the book contains important lessons for us today. The following are three such lessons in the portion Shemini (9:1-11:46) as seen by the rational thinker Shadal. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
Three Lessons in This Week’s Torah Portion Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined Contributors