San Diego Jewish World staff report SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Like many of us, Melanie Rubin enjoys decoding personalized license plates. CA 18, she has decided, is double code. CA is the Post Office abbreviation for California. And 18 is the numeric value of the Hebrew word ‘Chai,” meaning “Life.” Ergo, this license plate would appear […]
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing the right of girls to attend school in Pakistan. Unfortunately, 60 % of the girls in Pakistan are unable to read the news story about her award. * According to a recent Pew poll on religion in the United States, 72
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If people make the world go round, words make the world go round, too. I mention this today because there’s an Indian gentleman named Anu Garg who now lives in America and runs a popular word maven newsletter, free of charge, for people who like words and word origins. Like
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Vice-President Joe Biden accused Saud Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey of aiding and abetting jihadist groups fighting against Assad in Syria. He was reprimanded by President Obama for his undiplomatic behavior of telling the truth to allies. * The Chairwoman of the High Point University College Republicans in
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron Every night I watch the news Seeing many frightful clips. What’s the danger I must choose To dodge the next apocalypse? For Israelis it’s a bomb Developed by an ayatollah West Africans cannot be calm Until they’ve stopped Ebola. In Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Rage civil wars and crisis. Al Qaeda, Assad,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias will begin this week because Nancy Grace needs another story to outrage her on her television show. * Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong against China’s decision to only allow only candidates it has approved to appear on the ballot in the upcoming election for
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The first female pilot from the United Arab Emirates participated in the bombing sorties against ISIS in Syria. The UAE news agency refers to her as the country’s veiled threat. * Dick Cheney criticized President Obama for mentioning the racial tension in Ferguson during his UN speech this week. According
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The United States and coalition countries like Saudi Arabia bombed ISIS targets in Syria. A spokesperson for the Saudis explained, “We find the beheadings of Western journalists abhorrent. Beheadings should be reserved only for the gravest of crimes like witchcraft.” * Questions are being raised about how a man with
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ San Diego Unified School District returned the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle it had received from the Department of Defense. In the letter to the DOD, it explained that it had rescinded its “spare the tank, spoil the child” disciplinary policy. * Vice-President Biden apologized to the Jewish community for calling predatory
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Chairman of the joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey testified to the Senate on Tuesday, Sept. 16, that he couldn’t rule out dispatching boots on the ground to Iraq if circumstances warranted. President Obama continues to insist that he will never reintroduce boots on the ground there. Technically, the President might not
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO- Even though ISIS held Steven Sotloff captive for over a year before it beheaded him, the group apparently had no idea that he was Jewish or held Israeli Citizenship because he went under the alias of Moshe Cohen. *
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Frieda and Dr. Israel Barken had family, machatunim (relatives of in-laws) and friends over for Shabbat dinner, and Frieda, who loves to cook, felt perhaps she had shorted the guests, having prepared only 17 different dishes instead of what is for her the more typical 25. As we ate our
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SAN DIEGO– We’re happy to say that the hobby of Jewish-interest license plate collecting is catching on. Stacie Bresler Reinstein, a friend of our license plate maven Melanie Rubin, contributed this one. In Hebrew, Lazuz means “to move” and we imagine some variant of the word is occasionally shouted on Israel’s crowded freeways.
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SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, was en route to one of her appointments when she spotted this “crazy” plate. For those who don’t know Yiddish, meschugenah is how one Jewish person might describe to another person someone whose ideas or actions clearly are far beyond the bounds of reality.
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