President Donald Trump at an Iowa rally called on Omar to resign her House seat following disclosure that she used another name — Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar — in a recent court filing. Her former husband is named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. (SDJW staff report)
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The celebrated author has written a series of books about a heroine, Misery Chastain. Though the novels have brought him success and acclaim, he is eager to write something fresh, a complete departure from his 19th-century epic. Leaving the Victorian era behind, Sheldon writes a novel about life in Manhattan, filled with obscenities and graphic descriptions of New Yorkers. (Eva Trieger)
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
During the papal audience, the delegation presented Pope Leo with Honoring a Sacred Relationship, artwork commissioned by AJC and created by Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz, Izzy Pludwinski, and Yair Medina in Jerusalem. The piece depicts a powerful excerpt from Nostra Aetate—the 1965 Vatican declaration that revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations by rejecting antisemitism, affirming Judaism’s eternal covenant with God, and building new bridges of understanding—in both the original Latin and the official Hebrew translation… (Press Release)
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Engel’s music and that of five of his fellow composers in the Jewish Folk Song Society (JFSS) will be heard, as well as the music of one of the Russian teachers who inspired the group, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov. In addition, we will hear the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Holocaust-era Polish-born Jewish composer, who settled in the Soviet Union. [Eileen Wingard]
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On Friday, a 63-year-old Boston-born woman who is a Washington Post photographer was severely beaten by settlers. The next day, settlers assaulted two Arabs in another village in front of diplomats visiting from France, Poland, and Belgium. (Bruce S. Tocker)
Jerome Howard (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was a member of The Three Stooges comedy team, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp Howard, as well as vaudevillian Larry Fine. [Wikipedia]
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Avraham’s journey came without a guarantee that the road would be easy. Neither does ours. But we don’t need to see the entire road to take the next step. (Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.)
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British authorities rearrested two of the seven men suspected of plotting against RAF Fairford air base from which American bombers took off earlier this year on bombing runs over Iran. [SDJW staff]
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International, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USA
“Harvesting olives is not a crime. Detaining peaceful volunteers who are helping Palestinian farmers access their own land is an outrageous misuse of Israel’s authority in the West Bank. These detentions are part of a system whose purpose is to make life harder for Palestinians in the West Bank to stay on their land, to make a living, and simply live….” (Press Release)
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The opening of the exhibit, presented by Remember Us the Holocaust, drew Holocaust survivors, community leaders, elected officials and supporters who gathered to honor those who perished, recognize survivors and celebrate progress toward establishing a permanent home for Holocaust education in San Diego. (Cailin Acosta)
Judy Sheindlin (October 21, 1942), also known as Judge Judy, is an American attorney, court-show arbitrator and television personality. For 25 seasons from 1996 to 2021, she starred in her eponymous court show Judge Judy. [Wikipedia]
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Havis is attentive to the ways earlier political commitments become inadequate once concrete violence has occurred. Several characters discover that language they once used without much cost now requires defense or revision. The novel records these moments of discomfort—awkward family calls, a lecturer choosing silence, a podcaster recalibrating tone—but does not press very hard on what the discomfort produces. (Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel0
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MCPS was alerted multiple times to harassment and threats against the student at Montgomery Blair High School through the student’s family, faculty reports, formal bullying complaints, and meetings. This included being accused of genocide because of his intention to study in Israel, being accused of supporting genocide because he wore an Israel baseball shirt, being targeted with demands that classmates shun him as a “Zionist” being told to “go back to 1935” by other students, and receiving an anonymous phone call saying, “You’re a stupid fucking Zionist Jew, and we are going to bomb you” immediately followed by fireworks being set off outside his home. (Press Release)
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Antisemitism, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA“Antisemitism constantly evolves through coded language, symbols, cultural references and forms of ‘algospeak’ designed to evade automated detection…” (SDJW report)
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