SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin has spotted another Jewish interest license plate — this one an abbreviation for the Yiddish phrase Zei Geseundt, which means go in health. May it be so for all of us.
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Also transliterated from the Hebrew as Beth Shean, this is the biblical city where King Saul and his sons met their demise in a battle with the Philistines. Their bodies were displayed on the walls of the city, according to I Samuel 31:10, 12. Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets the credit for spotting
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Canada’s Sun News Network, often referred to as Fox News North, is closing down its operations. One media analyst explained that since Canada encompasses part of the Arctic Circle, the country doesn’t need any further polarization. * Rand Paul admitted that he is not really a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, but
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, N.Y. — Which of the following Brian Williams stories is true (unless, of course, it turns out not to be)? A. In 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Williams was reporting from Gaza when an Israeli airstrike destroyed a house a few hundred yards from where Williams was standing. Said Williams on
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Paleontologists have discovered evidence that dinosaurs ate hallucinogenic ergot. Humans continue to consume strains of the same psychedelic fungus. This explains why creationists believe humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs. * The University of California Students Association passed a resolution for the UC system to divest itself from
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SAN DIEGO– License plate maven Melanie Rubin spotted this license plate on the car of a popular rabbi, and thanks to the frame, we all know what kind of party present to bring, should the occasion ever arise.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Vice-President Biden announced he will be out of the country when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress. A growing number of Democratic senators are considering boycotting his speech too prompting ZOA to charge that this is just another manifestation of the BDS movement, Bibi’s Democratic Snub. * Brian Williams
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, a Grammy nominee for this year’s Best New Artist, has what Jewish connection? A. Israeli horticulturists at the University of Haifa have developed a breed of azalea which is resistant to petal blight, a common plant disease. They have named this new breed the
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SAN DIEGO–Now here is a license plate rife with possible interpretations. Eran is a Hebrew name, which comes from the word meaning “awake.” So one possible interpretation of this license plate spotted by our maven, Melanie Rubin, is that someone named Eran “ate” — and we’re glad he did because we wouldn’t want him
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SAN DIEGO– With Purim coming up March 4-5, our license plate Melanie Rubin couldn’t help but notice this plate, which reminded her of Vashti in the Book of Esther, who some credit as being among the first women’s liberation advocates for refusing to dance in front of King Ahashuerus and his guests.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ After weeks of appalling atrocities committed by ISIS and Boko Haram, terrorism experts are looking back nostalgically to the good old days when terrorists only hijacked airplanes and negotiated their release for ransom money or the release of imprisoned compatriots. * Archeologists have discovered that ancient humans ate psychedelic mushrooms.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Are Israeli cherries harvested during the Jubilee year? Is Gefilte Phish one of Ben and Jerry’s best-selling Israeli ice cream flavors? Are Tzitzit disease-carrying Mediterranean flies? Did George Washington throw gelt across the Potomac River? The answers to these and many other questions of Jewish Law, Tradition, History, and Popular Culture can be
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Radio talk show host Bryan Fischer was fired from his job as issues analyst for the American Family Association this week. Fischer helped the AFA organize a free Israel junket for the Republican National Committee, but his controversial view that the United States is a Christian nation which does not
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The American Ambassador to Israel met with Bibi Netanyahu to teach him the diplomatic version of the game Red Rover. If the leader of the other side doesn’t say you can come over, stay at home. * The FCC has issued a directive that the Weather Channel now has the
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