By Laurie Baron (Melody: Matchmaker, Matchmaker) SAN DIEGO — Documents, documents Scattered around. Some still hidden. Others were found. Documents, documents. Secret ones too. Which DOJ must impound. Documents, documents. Trump just refused. Joe had some too. Pence wasn’t excused. Documents, documents. Which don’t belong to them Mistakes or power abused? For Donald He thinks […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by Reuters By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two years after Democrats removed two Republicans from committee assignments. The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar from
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By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Coming on the heels of a major milestone for the school’s Jewish community as well as amid the rising tide of antisemitism on campus and nationwide, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was even more poignant than usual at UCSD this year. Marking the first large-scale event at the Beverly
LA JOLLA, California — On January 24, 2023, San Diegans attended a “Zionism on Campus” event in La Jolla, hosted by Jewish National Fund-USA San Diego Vice President Liat Cohen-Reeis, where they heard from local students and a university professor who recently attended one of Jewish National Fund-USA’s various educational programs in Israel. “There is
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Israel, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Press Release) —Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will award renowned writer and public health advocate Dr. Chelsea Clinton an honorary doctorate at the University’s Board of Governors Meeting in May 2023, BGU President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz has announced. “Dr. Chelsea Clinton is a world-renowned activist, author and ardent supporter of gender
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(Press Release) To begin the new year of 2023, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan gifted copies of the recently published Book of Jewish Knowledge to all ambassadors at the United Nations. In a body where Israel regularly faces negative headwinds, Erdan aimed to utilize the Book of Jewish Knowledge’s concise exploration of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Israel
Published by DPA Chad affirmed its cordial relations with Israel in opening an embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday in the presence of Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This is an historic moment,” Netanyahu said in remarks reported by his office. The opening of the embassy had been
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Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Thursday in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States urged all sides to calm escalating violence. With no reports of serious casualties, the exchange followed a familiar pattern that signalled neither side was seeking a wider conflict. Separately,
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Israel
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The exotic melodies and improvisatory style of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) songs evoke the colorful bougainvillea and balmy nights of Spain, even though much of that music was composed by the Sephardic Jews after their expulsion. They were driven out of Spain in 1492, then from Portugal five years later.
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The topic for discussion at the meeting last week was, “Which time of your life would you like to go back to?” During the pandemic the group of people who meet every two weeks to engage in German conversation held Zoom meetings instead of physical ones, and this
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Lifestyles
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — In August 1912, in Neue Rundschau, Stephan Zweig analyzed the work of notable new writers who had appeared in German literature: “Apart from Thomas Mann, certainly the one with the greatest hope of creating a truly German novel, two writers, Heinrich Mann and Jacob Wasserman have already shown with
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Alex Gordon, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — When Eric Goldstein speaks, Benjamin Netanyahu must listen. Even more so than when others speak, such as U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Israeli business executive Eynat Guez, 100,000-plus protesters in Tel Aviv and Israeli expats in New York and Los Angeles. What Goldstein tells Israel’s prime minister can be
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
Published by AFP New York (AFP) – When Karl and Rosi Adler fled the Nazis in 1938 they sold a Pablo Picasso painting to fund their escape. Now, their descendants are suing to get it back. Heirs of the Adlers, who were German Jews, have filed a lawsuit against New York’s Guggenheim Museum, where the
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Holocaust
Published by Kyiv Independent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a CNN interview he would consider providing military aid, including Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, to Ukraine. “Well, I’m certainly looking into it,” Netanyahu said when asked about the possibility of Israel sending the Iron Dome to Ukraine. Netanyahu also said that
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