By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — A few weeks ago I had the privilege of listening to Deborah Lipstadt speak in conversation with Rabbi Jason Nevarez in a wide-ranging discussion about security, antisemitism, racism, Holocaust denial, and Jewish identity. She was asked how she stays standing given all the ugliness she deals with and teaches […]
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Heidi Gantwerk, Opinion, San Diego County
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — During an interview on the OAN network, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared, “Not only do we have a D.C. jail — which is a D.C. gulag — but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO — This year’s Passover Seders are still about two months away, but Melanie Rubin has already found Elijah! As for the extra “h” on the license plate, it looks like she has also found the Afikomen.
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San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by Radar Online New details surrounding the passing of beloved Jewish comedian Bob Saget have been revealed. According to the official autopsy report released on Thursday, the 65-year-old Full House and Fuller House star was COVID positive when he died from a freak head injury he sustained inside an Orlando, Florida, hotel room on
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Jewish Celebrities
(JNS) Barnabas Szollos achieved Israel’s best-ever individual finish at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Thursday when he came in sixth place overall in the men’s alpine combined. The 23-year-old Hungarian-born skier, who’s representing Israel in his Olympic debut, finished second in the slalom portion of the race and 11th in the downhill section, which
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We live in a hyperculture: the internet, email, cell phones, and texting are all speeding up our interactions. It’s not only faster, it’s also more complex, leaving behind people like my mother, who, when asked to push a number on her phone in order to continue
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It’s been 60 years since I hearkened to the glorious words, “Yaamod Ha’Bachor ha’Bar Mitzvah Moshe Rafoyel ben Betzalel Shlishi,” and chanted this parasha, Tetzaveh, at Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, N.J., under the watchful eye and full heart of Rabbi Joachim Prinz, zt”l. I recall our
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — The American Society of the University of Haifa (ASUH) has added two team members who will strengthen its community engagement efforts. Dahnie Brandes brings a unique combination of passion for changemaking, advocating for Israel and promoting marine sustainability to a new role in which he is charged with expanding ASUH’s
By Israel Kasnett (JNS) The perceived Western European notion that a major war cannot again occur on the continent is quickly dissipating as Russia continues to threaten war with Ukraine. Even with the flurry of diplomatic activity on the part of the United States and Europe to reduce tensions, the threat is not going away
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International, Middle East
Published by DPA German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock used her first official visit to Israel to assure Israeli leaders of Germany’s determination to fight anti-Semitism and criticize the settlement building backed by the current premier, Naftali Bennett. During a meeting with her counterpart Yair Lapid, Baerbock said that Israel’s security remained of fundamental importance to
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International, Middle East
(JNS) Locust swarms have been a major cause of famine from ancient times right up to the present day. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have shown that locusts’ microbiomes may play a role in their aggregation behavior. Specifically, the researchers found that bacteria called Weissella, almost completely absent from the microbiome of solitary
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A partial tattoo kit offered at auction in Israel as an Auschwitz artefact is highly unlikely to have been used on Jews at the Nazi concentration camp, a court-ordered investigation has found following outcry from Holocaust survivors. The eight fingernail-sized steel dies, each lined with pins
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Holocaust, Middle East
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York is a brilliant, eye-opening, thought provoking, easy to read and enjoyable book by two university scholars, Nomi M. Stolzenberg of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, who has written
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Being able to hear all five Beethoven piano concerti played on two successive evenings was a rare treat. This was provided by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Steven Sloane, and brought Beethoven’s immense oeuvre in this realm into sharp and impressive perspective. On the first evening
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts