By Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) Over the last few weeks, a prominent Middle Eastern leader has been complicit in repeated calls to wipe out the entire State of Israel. Yet the international community has not said a word. How strange… No threats from the Biden administration to deny him a visa. No angry Reform rabbis […]
Palestinian Media Calls for Terrorism and the World is Silent Read More »
Israel, Opinion, USA
Published by Reuters By Dedi Hayoun BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) -Israelis protesting judicial reforms sought by the hard-right government converged on the country’s main airport on Thursday in a bid to disrupt a trip abroad by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as a visit by the U.S. defense secretary. Defying a heavy police
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Israel
SAN DIEGO — Poverty is a complex issue that affects people from all walks of life, but it disproportionately affects women. Women are more likely to live in poverty than men, and the gender pay gap is just one factor that contributes to this disparity. According to the World Bank, women make up the majority
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Lifestyles, Opinion, San Diego County
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — On June 28, 1914, the Serb student Gavrila Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo. A month later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia for the act of one Serb. The guilt of one person was shifted to the Serbian
The History of Insanity Read More »
Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, the Student Showcase of Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices will take place online. This allows for student poets, not only from San Diego but from the Middle School of the Portland Jewish Academy, to also participate. This year’s Student Showcase will take place Tuesday evening, March 14,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune The U.S. guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville, which was homeported in San Diego for many years, has been renamed Robert Smalls, honoring a Civil War-era maritime pilot who commandeered a Confederate ship in 1862 and turned it over to the Union forces. Smalls was born a slave and went on to
Navy Renames a Former San Diego-Based Ship After Slave and Sailor Robert Smalls Read More »
San Diego County
Published by DPA The story of the Sassoons, a family whose history spans centuries and nations, is now on show at New York’s Jewish Museum. The new exhibition follows four generations, from Iraq to India, China and England, showing their role in trade, art collecting, architectural patronage and civic engagement through more than 120 objects
Sassoon Family History on Display in New York’s Jewish Museum Read More »
Jewish History
Published by Reuters By Idrees Ali CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin travelled to Egypt on Wednesday to tell Cairo it wanted to deepen security and other ties but was concerned about human rights in country where activists say government critics are regularly rounded up. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army
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Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well fit in somewhere between the great actor Frederic March’s portrayal of a fanatical lawyer delivering God’s instructions to the world, and that of lesser-known actor Jay Robinson as a frenzied Caligula when, as Rome’s emperor, he demands his court to “kneel…kneel…kneel
God Speaks to Eric Adams, and NYC’s Mayor Tells the World…Adams, Adams, Adams Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Sarah Ogince (JNS) “Cursed is Hitler, cursed is Mussolini … Blessed is Roosevelt, blessed is Churchill.” With these words, the Moroccan scribe Prosper Hassine concluded his account of World War II and the Holocaust. The story was familiar, but what made Hassine’s work unique was its style: Written on a long parchment scroll, it
How Jews Made Purim Personal Read More »
Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
Published by BANG Showbiz English Arnold Schwarzenegger will “never” forget the emotional impact of visiting Auschwitz. The 75-year-old bodybuilder-turned-Hollywood star paid a visit to the Polish concentration camp – where more than one million Jewish people and other minority groups were tortured and killed between 1940 and 1945 – and admitted that the experience was
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Holocaust
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — What do you do when you feel vulnerable, defenseless, in danger? Like the Israelites in this week’s Torah reading, perhaps you find that your neck stiffens as you shift into an alarm reaction. Life was good when just a short while ago, the Israelites felt the presence
Parashat Ki Tisa and Parah: Do You Count Time, Or Make Time Count? Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Rabbi Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The weekly portion of Ki Thissa begins with counting the adult male Israelites from age twenty, by each giving a half shekel so “that there not be a plague among them when you count them,” and raises the question if this is superstition. This is followed by
Thoughts on the Torah Portion Ki Tisa, Superstition, and Rabbinical Judaism Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) has named Holocaust and genocide expert Sara E. Brown as director of its new San Diego Regional Office. Brown will represent AJC as the organization expands its presence in Southern California and the Southwest. AJC San Diego is the 25th U.S. regional office for AJC, the
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San Diego County, USA