David Makovsky (June 21, 1960) is the director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Project on the Middle East Peace Process. He serves as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in the Middle Eastern studies program. {Wikipedia]
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The negative commandments can often be fulfilled alone. They require restraint. The positive mitzvot, however, requires a relationship. You cannot welcome a stranger without a community. [Betzy Lynch]
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StandWithUs, a Jewish defense organization, has taken positions on two international controversies. [SDJW]
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Edith Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. [Wikipedia]
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Jewish Federation of San Diego has welcomed back Heather Wolfson as Senior Director of Leadership and Belonging. (Cailin Acosta)
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People can even learn how to improve themselves from stories about dreams, such as Jacob’s dream of a ladder reaching to heaven, found in Genesis 28:10-22. (Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin)
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The Independence Day extravaganza will replicate the recent UFC fight in front of the White House. In this case mothers and children slated for deportation will fight heavily armed ICE agents. Like the UFC, there will be few rules the ICE agents need to heed. Gassing and tasing will be allowed. {Laurie Baron}
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To be a person of African heritage and a Jewess is to hold a deep, ancestral understanding of what it means to be pulled from the depths, to celebrate a hard-won liberty, and to remain fiercely determined to stay free. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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This parsha’s message feels especially urgent in our own time. We live in an era of heightened contention, where the drive to be “right” often overshadows the pursuit of truth or peace. [Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel]
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While reopening the world’s energy chokepoint will help stabilize oil prices, it’s a temporary commitment on the part of Iran, which reaps extensive financial benefits from the deal up front. The United States, meanwhile, is left hoping for a better and more extensive agreement within a two-month negotiating period, which is unlikely to be achieved now that Trump has relinquished nearly all military and economic leverage over Iran. lHalie Soifer]
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You can talk about current affairs and the weather, even books, with anybody. That’s the stuff of today. But the past, that’s special. Pausing to provide a preamble and context to a family joke or reminiscence is no fun. It kills the punch line or the mood. [Karen Galatz]
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Becca Myers transformed Jeremy Gimbel’s scholarly thesis into a lively musical journey, tracing the evolution of Jewish sacred music while educating and celebrating the diverse cultural influences that make San Diego unique. [Sherrie Rose]
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Because of an American mid-term election in several months, it seems undeniable that the Trump administration has put the fear of losing several vulnerable seats in Congress above ending Iran’s impending threat to the West. [Steve Kramer]
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Ernst Chain (June 19, 1906 – August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”. [Wikipedia]
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