By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel “The View” featured a discussion about a Tennessee School District’s decision to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its middle school curriculum. Whoopi Goldberg asserted, “The Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race.” Goldberg made a mistake that revealed her ignorance about the […]
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Holocaust, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion, USA
By Elie Klein JERUSALEM — As a kosher foodie living in Israel, I am intimately familiar with the ever-potent power of novel and nostalgic comfort food. Within minutes of hearing about the newest offerings at our favorite restaurants or the childhood treats that clandestinely crop up on our grocer’s shelves, Israel’s Anglos hunt them down
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Middle East, Opinion, Travel and Food
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In the same week as the Israeli government announced a rise in the price of fuel and electricity, several major food importers and manufacturers in Israel proclaimed that they would also be raising prices. For once, instead of the usual passive acceptance of their fate, consumers in Israel
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Business & Finance, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Opinion
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Silly sideshows dominate much of the news on Israel and other Jewish and general issues. So much so that keeping up with them amounts to “posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes,” to quote Tevye as he croons “If I were a rich man” in the musical “Fiddler
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Bruce Ticker, Holocaust, Opinion, USA
Published by Miami Herald No, Gov. Ron DeSantis, it’s no coincidence that, only days apart, antisemitic flyers were hurled out of a passing car in Miami Beach while in Central Florida neo-Nazis staged rallies last weekend. At not one, but two gatherings in public spaces — an Orange County highway overpass and in an Orlando
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Holocaust, Opinion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Whoopi Goldberg was wrong but as far as I’m concerned, the folks at ABC and The View were too harsh when they suspended her for two weeks. Let me explain. In a discussion of the Holocaust on The View television show, Goldberg commented that the Holocaust wasn’t racist
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — When reading tales of our ancestors in the Torah, it can seem more like fiction than fact. The characters are distant peoples from faraway lands whose personal lives we can only speculate about. As the same parshas are read year after year, it is easy to be desensitized to
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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka
(c) By Edwin Black Amnesty International is attempting to bomb the world’s airwaves, news sites, and printing presses with yet another fake Israeli apartheid report. Last week, in an extraordinary move of attempted media synchrony, Amnesty actually pre-positioned an embargoed press release emblazoned with a bright red instruction to editors “Under Strict Embargo until 1
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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, Opinion
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit is coming to the end of his term. And he’s finishing it with a number of plea bargains. One has been with Ariyeh Deri. He’s pleading guilty to tax fraud, paying a fine of 180,000 shekels ($56,615) resigning from the Knesset, but avoiding a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Ari Morgenstern (JNS) The horrors of Nazi concentration camps did not materialize from thin air. Neither did the shootings in Poway, Calif., or Pittsburgh, Pa.; nor did the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas. As the late Holocaust survivor and educator Irving Roth often said: “It began with words.” We must heed that warning now—here in
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Opinion, USABy Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — There is an old joke that most rabbis probably know: From where in the Torah do we know that God is a great baseball fan? The answer is simple: Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim v’et ha’aretz: In the big inning, God created heaven and the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion, Sports & Competitions
By Kenneth L. Marcus (JNS) On Jan. 27, we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide, as well as the millions of other victims who were persecuted during that era. This remembrance will be meaningless, however, if we do not seriously consider the gathering threat faced by
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International, Middle East, Opinion, USA
So there is another shanda, disgrace, emanating from former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein’s complicated scheme to steal money from taxpayers and generous employers. Caught up in it is another Chabad Rabbi, Yehuda Hadjadj of Chabad of UC San Diego, who pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Jan. 26, to conspiring with Goldstein to illegally divert money fraudulently obtained from Qualcomm. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Opinion, San Diego County, Shanda File
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When it all started, just about two years ago, everyone thought that the nasty bug known as Corona, or COVID-19, would soon come to an end. When it didn’t, precautionary measures were put into effect, with lockdowns, quarantine and the wearing of masks. People had to keep a