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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Howard Schultz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Howard Schultz (July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. He later left and opened Il […]

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Satire: The Political All-Star Game

The second day of the Republican National Convention coincided with baseball’s All-Star Game.  Worried that most viewers would watch the game rather than the convention, Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden’s team to a one inning game of baseball pitting the Milwaukee MAGAs against Biden’s team which Trump dubbed the Washington National Insiders.  Here are some highlights. [Satire by Laurie Baron]

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OpEd: The Folly of Academic Boycotts Against Israel

That research is important in the quest for cures for Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s Disease. The research helps physiologists calculate the length of a person’s step; makes strides toward thought-activated speech; and utilizes mathematics for defining medical issues. [Donald H. Harrison]

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OpEd: The Black Community and Its Zionist Heritage

His overall point was that the Black community in America, which descends from Africa, knows that: Zion is Jerusalem and that since ancient times Zion has been spoken of and written about; that African/Black Americans have always sung about Zion; and that Zion was culturally embedded in Black American culture centuries before the modern state of Israel. [Barrett Holman Leak]

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Parsha Balak: A Call for a Unified, not Uniform, Jewish Community

Here, we share fences with Conservative, Reform and Orthodox congregations and yet we remain judgmental and distant. How can we bridge these schisms and find harmony? Can we express our beliefs without descending into conflict? Can we maintain love for one another despite passionate disagreements? [Michael R. Mantell, PhD]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Clifford Odets

Courtesy of Wikipedia Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, as O’Neill began to withdraw from Broadway’s commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash.[2] From January 1935, Odets’s socially relevant dramas were extremely influential,

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OpEd: How NOT to Fight Antisemitism

A veteran pro-Israel organization which spent $14.5 million to oust U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the June 25 Democratic primary displayed excessive wealth and power. Bowman, who is widely viewed as anti-Israel, probably would have lost without the expenditure of $14.5 million to educate voters in New York’s 16th congressional district of his failings. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Antisemitism, Bruce Ticker, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Mixed Israeli-Palestinian Choir Advances on ‘America’s Got Talent’

The Jerusalem Youth Chorus, comprised of Palestinians and Israelis, advanced through the audition phase of America’s Got Talent on Tuesday, July 16.  A video of the chorus’ performance and the reaction of the celebrity judges is seen here [SDJW staff report]

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Fundraising: Garvey Gains on Schiff in California U.S. Senate Race

Between April 1 and June 30, the former L.A. Dodgers and San Diego Padres star outraised his Democratic opponent, Rep. Adam Schiff, by more than $1 million, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. But Garvey entered July with less cash — $3.3 million in the bank — than Schiff’s $6.5 million, reports show. [Yu Stella Yue, Cal Matters]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Hannah Szenes

Courtesy of Wikipedia Hannah Szenes ( July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.

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