Staff and Bylined Contributors

The Jewish Citizen: ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant Prompt Strong Reactions

Jewish communal reactions came fast and furious on Thursday to the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on suspicion of war crimes. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Campaign Begins in S.D.’s Jewish Community to Generate Awareness of Sex Abuse

Leaders of Za’akah, a New York-based organization fighting sexual abuse in Jewish communities, are working with a pair of San Diego County residents–Alex Kaufman, a Rancho Santa Fe attorney, and Anne Arenson-Winter, a La Jolla psychologist–to organize a local campaign. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Shanda File, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

OpEd: Standing Together Through It All

Then there are the times when you are trying to get into a parking garage and the pro-Palestinians surrounding your vehicle are bashing their fists on your car doors, banging on your car window, chopping huge protest signs on your hood, and then laying it on your windshield so you cannot see to drive forward. [Barrett Holman Leak]

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Antisemitism, Barrett Holman Leak, Israel, Lifestyles, Middle East, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Israeli Tells of Rallying Jews in New York and New Jersey Despite Pro-Palestinian Protests

I received a phone call from the president of the Young Israel of Staten Island, who informed me that Palestinian supporters planned to demonstrate outside the shul during our event. When I offered to cancel, he firmly declined and explained that the shul’s leadership decided to run a gathering to “express our unwavering support for Israel and our gratitude to the United States.” [Gedaliah Borvick]

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Gedaliah Borvick, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Mitzvot and Kindness Mark Visit to a Recycling Center

As I took my bottles and cans to EDCO Recycle this morning, I reflected that the “haul” used to be filled with Diet Coke cans. However, years ago, I switched to SodaStream, an Israeli product that carbonates your water.  I don’t add any syrups.  I simply drink fizzy water.  The volume of my recycling has decreased, but I feel, nevertheless, that I am dong my part for the environment. [Cailin Acosta]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Cailin Acosta, Israel, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food

Classic Debates in Israel’s Parliament

I found myself involved in the translation of five of the six volumes of Major Knesset Debates, 1948–1981, edited by former Clerk of the Knesset, Netanel Lorch. This project, which occupied me for several years, gave me a unique insight into the workings of the Knesset and the nature of the debates held there as well as of the various individuals (i.e., politicians) who participated in those debates. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors

The Man Who Came to Dinner Overstays his Welcome

Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, ”Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Well, The Man Who Came To Dinner at PowPac Theatre bears this out! In Moss Hart’s and George Kaufman’s play, this adage comes to life. Directed by Rhiannon McAfee, the marvelous cast of the Julia Smith production delivers the tale of a self-important, “bombastic” man who manipulates his minions for his own design. [Eva Trieger]

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Chuckling Over a New Anthology of Jewish Humor

Movie director Salvador Litvak (When Do We Eat?; Guns and Moses) has compiled 162 Jewish jokes.  Some are very old. I’m 79 years old, and I can remember my father telling me some of the stories that he heard from his father. Call them classics.  But others are fresh–or at least they are to me–and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud (“lol” to social media habitués) and then read them across the breakfast table to my wife, Nancy. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire

The Jewish Citizen: 14 Jewish Congressmembers Want House Ethics Committee to Release Gaetz Report

Nearly 100 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have urged the House Ethics Committee, which meets on Wednesday, to publicly release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom President-elect Trump has nominated for the job of U.S. Attorney General. Prior to Gaetz’s resignation from Congress last week, the committee had been investigating Gaetz for sex and drug offenses, among other allegations. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Antisemitism, Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Middle East, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA