Cailin Acosta

StandWithUs Urges University of Chicago Administration to Condemn Discriminatory SJP Campaign

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — The Israel education organization StandWithUs sent the following letter to University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen. * February 4, 2022 Robert J. Zimmer, Ph.D., President, The University of Chicago Michele Rasmussen, Ph.D., Dean of Students, The University of Chicago VIA EMAIL: president@uchicago.edu; mrasmussen@uchicago.edu […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israel Virtually Drops COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Requirement

Published by DPA Israel has virtually dropped a rule requiring people to show documents to prove their vaccination status, despite record numbers of severely ill patients suffering from Covid-19. As of Monday, people will only have to prove they have been vaccinated or recovered by showing their “green passport” when attending major events such as

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Middle East

Satire: Republican Revisionism

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Republican National Committee censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol which the RNC considers “legitimate political discourse.”  Unbeknownst to the public, the RNC also appointed a historical committee to censure Republicans whose policies the

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Jewish Music at the Olympics

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Jason Brown is a Jewish figure skater who will be representing the United States at the Beijing Olympic Games. He has won numerous events in the past, including 9 medals at Grand Prix international events, the 2015 United States National Championship, and a bronze medal in a team event

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Amnesty’s Report Assures Distortion on Israeli Arabs

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — On February 1, Amnesty International, claiming to be a movement of 10 million people, published a report headlined, “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity.” A couple of days before then, Israel managed to obtain a copy, and began a campaign that

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion

San Diego Jewish Academy Students Launch Weather Balloon to Highest Attainable Altitude in Earth’s Atmosphere Before Space

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Jewish Academy on Friday proudly announced the successful launch of a high-altitude weather balloon by their physics students, which traveled 90,000 feet — the highest attainable altitude in the Earth’s atmosphere before space. From that height, it’s possible to view the whole world. The project, a culmination of

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Investor Sam Zell, Mayor Gloria Celebrate Latest Expansion of Cross Border Xpress

By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Legendary Jewish real-estate investor Sam Zell joined San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria on Thursday to cut the ribbon inaugurating the latest expansion of the successful Cross Border Xpress bridge to the Tijuana airport. Zell was part of the investment group that financed construction of CBX,

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Chris Jennewein, San Diego County

Dr. Bart Ehrman Lists Many Inconsistencies in the New Testament

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Many Christians are convinced that God dictated the New Testament, that it has no errors and no contradiction, and that it contains the true facts concerning Jesus and the beginning of Christianity. In contrast, many scholars in America and Europe for at least several hundred years

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.

Israel to Test for COVID-19 Using Non-Invasive Eye Exam

(JNS) An Israeli hospital has started recruiting volunteers for the world’s largest known study for the detection of COVID-19 within the surface of the eye, announced Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer on Thursday. The hospital will be testing if the Tear Film Imager (TFI) developed by the Israeli company AdOM Advanced Optical Technologies, which

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Whoopi’s Immaculate Misconception

By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel “The View” featured a discussion about a Tennessee School District’s decision to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its middle school curriculum. Whoopi Goldberg asserted, “The Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race.” Goldberg made a mistake that revealed her ignorance about the

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Holocaust, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion, USA