Cailin Acosta

Rethinking Cain’s Famed Remark, ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper?’

The Trial of Cain: A Jewish Courtroom Drama by Rabbi Dr. Dan Ornstein; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; © 2021; ISBN: 0827614675; 232 pages; $20.93. By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Rabbi Dan Ornstein’s excellent book, The Trial of Cain: A Jewish Courtroom Drama, reminded me of something I once did with […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Teva Pharmaceuticals

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The American division of the Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals was found liable in a lawsuit alleging responsibility for aspects of the opioid crisis in this country. “Teva Pharmaceuticals USA…misled the American people about the true dangers of opioids,” said New York’s attorney general Letitia James. In 1901 Chaim Salomon,

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Keep it Simple, Stupid

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Keep it simple, stupid. It’s meant to facilitate administration. Too many rules, frequent changes, confuse both the populis and those meant to enforce the rules. KISS doesn’t prevail here, now. Or perhaps ever. There’s one rule for school rooms. If less than 70 percent of the kids have been

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Scripps Ranch Theatre’s ‘Heisenberg’ Shows the Risk-Taking Real Life Requires

By Eva Trieger SCRIPPS RANCH, California — We’ve all heard tales ranging from altruistic to beastly behavior since the start of the pandemic, but how to explain a young woman planting a kiss on a stranger’s neck in a London train station? Simon Stephens’ 2015 play, Heisenberg, is making its San Diego premiere at Scripps

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Iranian-Made UAVs Now Stationed 1,200 Miles From US Soil

By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are stationed in Venezuela, on the northeast tip of South America, where some 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) separate them “from skyscrapers in Miami,” the author of a new report on the threat of UAVs has told JNS. Maj. (res.) Tal Beeri, head of the research department

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International, Middle East

Russia and Israel: Cooperating Under the Radar in Syria?

By Shoshana Bryen While staying out of the horrific Syrian Civil War (except humanitarian aid at the border), Israel has long had three red lines for what happens in its northern neighbor: No Iranian or Hezbollah bases near the Israeli border; revised to no Iran in Syria. No weapons delivered by Iran to Hezbollah that Israel considers

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Eizenstat Reappointed as Special Advisor for Holocaust Issues at State Department

(JNS) The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that political veteran, Amb. Stuart Eizenstat was appointed to serve as Special Advisor on Holocaust Issues to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. According to a news release, the position would have Eizenstat, 78, offer policy advice on contemporary Holocaust-related matters, working in coordination with the Special

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USA

Biblical Brew: Israeli Researchers Uncover 7,200-Year-Old Evidence of Beer Consumption

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Israeli, American, and German researchers have found the first evidence of the consumption of beer within a residential community, at the Chalcolithic settlement of Tel Tsaf, which dates back some 7,200 years. “We have already uncovered evidence highlighting the relative wealth of the residents of Tel Tsaf, including the storage

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Captain Simmon Latutin Marker in UK: The Latest Pinprick for Antisemites

By Jerry Klinger Bigotry, hate, antisemitism, and ignorance are not owned by any one group, nor by any one culture or nationality. There is a universality to it. Antisemites repeat, with vicious relish, the false canard that Galut Jews are disloyal, cowards. They never volunteer as soldiers, fight for their country, and if called to

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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History