We know why
She had to testify.
Stormy Daniels. [Laurie Baron]
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From TV star Debra Messing, who is executive-producing Primal Fear, a documentary about the post-October 7 eruption in antisemitism, to Hadassah Zionism-education star Diana Diner, from Christian Zionist Destiny Albritton to LGBTQ+ progressive Zionist Toby Klein, from black Jewish poet/digital content creator Tova Ricardo to constitutional scholar Sam von Ende – these women and the others on the 2024 list represent the diversity of Zionism today. [Press Release]
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“Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today,” writes Greene, “that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews,” as quoted in the Raw Story publication. [Bruce S. Ticker]
“Few people have had a more profound impact on San Diego than Joan Jacobs,” said Mayor Todd Gloria on Tuesday “She was an ardent supporter of ensuring access to arts, education, top-quality medical care and so much more to enrich people’s lives….” [Chris Jennewein, Times of San Diego]
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Lenard and Stark were a member of a group of 30 physicists who put forward the concept of “German physics.” They rejected the new quantum physics and the theory of relativity as dogmatic theories irrelevant to reality. They argued that the correct approach to explaining physical phenomena should be based on classical physics, which was being crowded out by the “false” theory of relativity and quantum mechanics invented by the Jews. [Alex Gordon]
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Courtesy of Wikipedia Melissa Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls (played by Michael Landon) on the NBC series Little House on
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A Holocaust cattle car is on the National Mall in Washington, DC, May 6-9, open to all visitors for a powerful, immersive learning experience about the Holocaust and the dangers of antisemitism, intolerance, and racism. [Press Release]
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Tuesday, May 7, it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint that the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) failed to address non-stop “severe and persistent” bullying and harassment of Jewish students in classrooms, hallways, schools yards, and walkouts since October 7, 2023. [Press Release]
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The researchers chose to examine genetic differences between individuals who would not be expected to show such differences – pairs of identical twins, who should share the same DNA sequence, where one of the twins suffers from schizophrenia while the other does not. [Press Release, University of Haifa]
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The event in the Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego had two survivors speaking, Debby Stauber and Marguerite Morris. We heard two very different experiences from these two lovely ladies and even had a chance to hold in our hand part of history. The passport that belongs to Stauber was surreal to hold as the passport was adorned with the Nazi swastika on it. [Miriam Gershenson]
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UCSD. 64 people were arrested on Monday, during the dismantling of an anti-Israel protest encampment. According to a statement from the University of California, San Diego, of those arrested, 24 were not affiliated with the University.
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Many, including Spinoza’s family, fled to Amsterdam, where Jews were tolerated as long as they did not “clash with (Amsterdam’s) Calvinism on such matters as the immortality of the soul, belief in the afterlife, God the creator or the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures – all dogmas that Spinoza would later repudiate.” [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Every thread of justice we weave, every hand we extend in care, every ember of anger we extinguish within ourselves – these become luminous threads in the tapestry of the sacred. [Michael R. Mantell]
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Many of Heckerling’s films were adapted as television series. Fast Times at Ridgemont High evolved into the series Fast Times (1986), while Clueless (1995) became a television series that ran from 1996 to 1999. [Wikipedia]
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