Travel and Food

In response to the evolving needs of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States, U.S. Department of Health and Human services (HHS) on Thursday night, April 8, transferred 300 teenage girls from the emergency intake site at the San Diego Convention Center to another site at Fort Bliss in Texas. The transfer creates space in San Diego for an equal number of “tender-age” children (ages 5 to 12) and older siblings who have been in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The new arrivals will be in San Diego on Friday.  [News release from Mayor Todd Gloria of San Diego]

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has begun consultations with party leaders two weeks after Israel’s deadlocked elections. He met representatives of Likud on Monday, the first of a series of meetings planned with the 13 groups represented in parliament in the course of the day. Each group is to recommend a candidate to form the government

Amanda Gorman says her speech impediment is anything but. The Los Angeles-born poet, who became an overnight sensation after reading her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration in January, spoke about her journey with Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming episode of “The Oprah Conversation.” “I was born early, along with my twin.

By Kelsey Kloza I’ve never been particularly good at being Asian. I was adopted from South Korea as an infant and have no memory of the place, its people or my biological parents. I was raised by a Caucasian family in a majority-Caucasian New Jersey town — I know more about ravioli than dumplings, and

By Peter Szekely and Gabriella Borter NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York man previously convicted of murdering his mother has been arrested and charged with assaulting a 65-year-old Asian woman in a hate crime, an attack captured on a video that went viral amid a rise in anti-Asian incidents in the United States. Police identified

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, 33 states have introduced 165 bills purportedly to guarantee election integrity, but really to suppress the votes of core Democratic constituencies like ethnic immigrants and people of color.  To fend off charges of racism, these states are now trying to disguise the real intent of such legislation.  Here are some examples: [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]

This is a short, mainly prose, contrived stitching together of Jeremiah passages. They were selected by later rabbis  as an example of a tirade against the nation of Judah’s corruption shortly before its downfall by Babylon (586 BCE). [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]

MAZON: The Jewish Response to Hunger, on Monday applauded the confirmation of Rep. Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, to be U.S. Interior Secretary, the first Native American to hold the post.  Also, on Monday, President Joe Biden announced he is nominating Jamie Simms Hipp, a member of the Chickasaw Nation and CEO of the Native American Agriculture Fund, to serve as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Donald H. Harrison]