SAN DIEGO — Anyone who knows even a shtickle of Yiddish would be shocked and amazed to find this license plate on, quite appropriately, a Chevy Volt. Editor’s note: “JPlate” is the new name of our Jewish-interest license plate series.
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Melanie Rubin, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Mark D. Zimmerman Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a Haredi authority in Israel on legal and ethical practice, died in March 2022 at the age of 94 in Bnei Brak. Among his rabbinic rulings was that it was forbidden to own a smartphone without first receving permission from a halahkic authority, and that the owner could
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
(Melody: This Train is Bound for Glory) On the First Anniversary of the Russian Invasion By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Ukraine is bound for glory, Ukraine. Winning a war so gory, Ukraine. Ukraine will prove greater. Beat the invader and its dictator. Ukraine is bound for glory, Ukraine. Ukraine has a smaller army, Ukraine.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Pooh, Pooh, Pooh, I’m not superstitious, ken ayin ha’ra (no evil eye). But why take chances? So, of course, I observe the secular warnings: Avoid black cats and don’t walk under ladders — and, honoring the Druids, I knock on wood so as not to invoke bad karma
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Roald Dahl Story Company and Puffin Books have changed the original language in Dahl’s children’s stories to make them more inclusive and less offensive. The Mark Twain Foundation is planning to do the same for his works. Here are some of the changes: Tom Sawyer is now described
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Mark D. Zimmerman The Carter Center issued a statement that following recent hospital stays by President Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former president “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” Among President Carter’s greatest accomplishments was the 1978 Camp David Accords, agreements
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
LA JOLLA, California — This license plate, spotted by Melanie Rubin in the Lawrence Family JCC parking lot, keeps it in the family. That is, if you drop the extra “A,” which would mean that it spells the Hebrew word for grandfather.
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Melanie Rubin, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO — Clearly, the owner of this license plate wants to wish good health to fellow drivers and other passersby. (As they say in Yiddish, zei gezunt.)
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Melanie Rubin, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Mark D. Zimmerman The United States recently shot down a Chinese spy balloon which had sailed across the American continent. Since that time, there have been reports of previous Chinese spy balloons. And the United States military has now shot down three additional unidentified objects, over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon Territory, and Michigan. Of course,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — To defend the country from foreign attacks, the United States has developed sophisticated weapons like stealth jets and weapons capable of shooting down incoming missiles. The Chinese spy balloon alerted our leaders to the dangers of low-tech threats to our security. A supplemental military appropriation bill addresses this problem.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron (Melody: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head) In Memoriam to Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) SAN DIEGO — Catcalls are shouted when he speaks, And like the woman whose mouth emits those shrieks, Dressed in her white fur. Spouting all her slurs, he is not deterred. He tells them to check what colleagues had
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Mark D. Zimmerman Bob Born, former president of Just Born, the candy company founded by his Russian Jewish immigrant father Sam Born, died last week at the age of 98. The Just Born company makes Peeps, the marshmallow treat which is a popular Easter candy. Under Sam’s stewardship, the company had developed chocolate sprinkles
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy 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
Purim arrives this year the evening of Monday, March 6, and concludes on Tuesday, March 7. To get your children or grandchildren ready for the fun holiday, you could enjoy reading with them this parody on Little Red Riding Hood, wherein Lily whizzes on a skateboard toward grandma’s condo in Florida. Lily has hamantaschen loaded into her backpack.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire