At times like this, each one of us becomes an ambassador for Israel. Even if you don’t agree with everything Israel does, any decent person must stand up for Israel’s right to self-defense. [Rabbi Aron Moss]
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The Catcher in the Rye, featuring the adventures of the cynical Holden Caulfield, was greeted enthusiastically by literary reviewers and by high school teachers, but in other parts of the country, it was denounced as smut because of Salinger’s frequent use of such words as “goddamn,” bastard,” “Chrissakes.”[SDJW Staff report]
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO – Laughing to keep from crying, here’s a look back at 2023: January My Blue Kevin (Melody: My Blue Heaven) The GOP votes multiple times. ‘Cause the crazies reject blue Kevin. Turn to the right, the extreme MAGA right Will make him the blue, blue Kevin. He bargained away, whatever
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So, what is the New Year’s wisdom from my fig tree? Its seasonal variations remind me that change happens gradually; that nature takes patience and time to produce its fruits – its goals. The tree is not making a resolution to produce a certain number of figs. It cannot. It is unable to control how much water it receives, unforeseen weather patterns, or the quantity and sweetness of the figs it will eventually yield. [Shayna Kaufmann]
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I am asking the lobbyists for their help in securing a Congressional investigation into the federal grant programs intended for insuring equity and inclusion of university students, but have, instead, been usurped by propagandists, who have used these funds to bring in guest lecturers and core faculty members who espouse a full-fledged frontal assault on Israel as “colonists” and “apartheidists.” [Amy Neustein, PhD]
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A plaque embedded into the entrance wall of the building states in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; Based on principles of human dignity, equality, pluralism and freedom of thought, speech and creative expression.” One can only hope that the students, who come from all segments of Israeli society, will benefit from this noble aspiration. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Jews cannot be blamed if they wonder whether U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling us Christ-killers. She posted two anti-Israel Instagram messages during Christmas that links Gazans to Jesus. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
While not everyone was Jewish, “we had a community ketuba of values” in which it was agreed that “we all come from different faith backgrounds, but we can agree that innovation, caring for one another, caring for the environment, and acting with intention were the things that we all wanted to do. So, we had one of our Hive members create a community ketuba (a written contract, usually for marriages.) We illustrated it and we all signed it.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is urging support for Congressman Colin Allred in his quest to oust Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. [SDJW Staff Report]
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After a total of 54 years as a caretaker with Seacrest Village Retirement Communities and its predecessor senior residence, the San Diego Hebrew Home, caretaker Joyce Lundin has retired, but not before staff, residents, and donors to the Jewish facility could bid her a fond farewell. (SDJA staff)
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By Doron Krakow Yehuda Amichai | יהודה עמיחי was one of Israel and the Jewish world’s foremost poets. Born Ludwig Pfeuffer in Würzburg, Germany, in 1924, he and his family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935, during Hitler’s rise to power, eventually settling in Jerusalem. He chose the surname Amichai | My People’s Lives to express his patriotic
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SDJW Staff Report DENVER — Earlier this month at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global Conference for Israel in Denver, high school students put themselves in the shoes of people with disabilities through simulations led by ADI, an Israeli disability care and advancement organization that empowers children, adolescents, and adults with severe disabilities and pioneers cutting-edge therapeutic
Activists on the street as well as members of the United Nations insist on a cease-fire, but they do not say how it should work or how it will help anyone besides Hamas. Does the cease-fire mean that Hamas can hold 120-plus Israelis hostage while Israel suspends military action? [Bruce S. Ticker]
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