Antony Blinken (April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 71st United States secretary of state from 2021 to 2025. [Wikipedia]
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“Did you feel that?” I heard this all day yesterday and even today in the aftermath of an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale and centered near Julian. I checked in with my friends who have balance issues to ask if they were okay and if they needed anything. [Cailin Acosta]
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Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger]
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While there have been no Jewish characters among the guests at the resorts over the past three seasons, Season 3 did feature a Hebrew song during one episode. What was that song? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Amidst threats to Jewish students in schools and vulnerable people across the state, we’re championing impactful bills and budget items that build a more tolerant society and protect social service programs at risk from federal cuts. [David Bocarsly]
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Maybe Sanders, an independent from Vermont, is right. It is possible that Israel has gone too far. As for Risch, we do not want to risk weakening Israel’s military capabilities. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Ruben is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and getting fitted for his powder blue tuxedo. As the family waits for the great reveal, he comes out in an elegant dress and sings a song he has been practicing. [Cailin Acosta]
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Susanne Bier (April 15, 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). [Wikipedia]
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The short play runs only about 90 minutes, but is so filled with dialogue, movement and history that the viewer is completely absorbed into this re-enactment of young love prior to and during World War I. [Eva Trieger]
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Perhaps I am being paranoid, but I fear being targeted by ICE or the Department of Justice for attending a Hands-Off march, mocking Trump in my columns, and signing petitions critical of how Israel has conducted the Gaza War. (Laurie Baron)
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His dad is involved in mostly petty crimes and drugs, but after 16-year-old EJ gets scared by a robbery gone wrong he wants to live with his uncle Dwayne and get off the streets. [Sandi Masori]
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Adrien Brody (April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his portrayal of Holocaust survivors: Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet’s period epic The Brutalist (2024). [Wikipedia]
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In 1927 Lecache founded the League Against Pogroms, which the following year, became the International League Against Antisemitism, and in 1979, became the International League against Racism and Antisemitism. He was the president from 1927 to 1968. [Alex Gordon]
Veteran detective, Mark McPherson (Kevin O’Connor, Jr) is quite taken with the stunning and mysterious socialite who has been murdered in her New York City apartment. Ogling her portrait and perusing her record collection he has fallen in love with the victim. But he’s not alone in his affections. [Eva Trieger]
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