By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — He hasn’t “exactly” been invited, his press secretary acknowledged, but President Trump is planning to speak at the Jewish day school that two of his grandchildren attend. It may cause controversy among some of the parents, But he is planning to address the school on the last day […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Hawaii is suffering from the destruction wreaked by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano. Israel has its own volcano, Mount Bental, which last erupted about 50,000 years ago. The volcano is now a tourist site with spectacular views of the Hula Valley, Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Haspel According to John (McCain) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Gina Haspel’s evasive answers to questions about whether enhanced interrogation techniques are illegal or immoral tortured my memories. * Gina Haspel ran a Black Site in Thailand, what you might call a Scare B & B, Bondage and Boarding. Having stayed at the Hanoi Hilton,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A Brooklyn entrepreneur plans to introduce a full-service organization that will install and maintain a community’s eruv, the wire or string that (in combination with existing structures such as telephone poles) forms a symbolic barrier enabling Shabbos observers to push strollers and carry items within its confines
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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Many members of the press denounced Michelle Wolf for her scathing remarks about Press Secretary Sarah Sanders at the White House Correspondents Dinner. To avert future insults of members of the Trump Administration, the group announced it will not meet hold a dinner next year unless President Trump attends the event,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK–At the suggestion of his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared, President Trump will mark the Jewish holiday of Shavuot this month with a national week of special observance. But at their urging, he’s dropped his original plan of emphasizing one or two of the Ten Commandments each day of
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Actor Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, died last week. In 2011, he visited Israel. Besides visiting the Western Wall, what else did Troyer do in Israel? A. Troyer, a Catholic, was in Israel to speak at the Youth Summit for Peace, sponsored by
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Donalogue by President Trump By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — In the prequel to Genesis, or as I call it Genesis Minus 1, which Pious Pence brought to my attention, the Ten Commandments that have guided my life can be found. 1“I am the boss, your President, who drained the swamp leaving only muck.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A consortium of Jewish women is developing a Jewish-oriented device along the lines of Alexa and other electronic gadgets that respond to and fulfill the user’s spoken requests to play music, read the news, give weather reports, order food, shop on line, and much more. The Jewish device
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — A delighted North Coast Repertory Theater audience watched in amazement Tuesday night, as Frank Ferrante became funnyman Groucho Marx. Before our very eyes, Ferrante painted on his mustache, donned rimmed glasses and adopted the familiar Noo Yawk accent in his lightning quick banter. The ninety-minute show recalled Marx
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Actress Natalie Portman is in the headlines, having decided to forgo her receipt of the Israeli Genesis Prize, often referred to as the Jewish Nobel Prize. Portman said that she did not want her presence to imply approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was scheduled to speak at
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To counteract bad publicity for calling the police to arrest two African American customers, Starbucks will close its stores for one day of racial sensitivity training for its staff and discontinue its Blond roast line of coffee. * For the first time in its history, the Senate allowed one of its
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The movement to eliminate or at least liberalize laws and customs relating to a get – a divorce document that an Orthodox Jewish husband may grant to or withhold from his wife seeking an end to their marriage – has enlisted a surprise adherent: President Trump. “Trust me,
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Former FBI Director James Comey has been in the headlines almost constantly since the 2016 presidential campaign. President Donald Trump just tweeted that “Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other
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