SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven Melanie Rubin spotted this license plate which utilized the Hebrew word “nahag” meaning “to drive” or “to guide.” Noting that the number following the word is 10, which denotes a perfect score, Rubin surmised that the person who owns the car must be a good driver, indeed.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva M. Trieger LA JOLLA, California — What more perfect bonding experience could there be than a week-long mother-daughter cross country road trip? That phrase evokes images of laughter, singing, and discovery, but it neglects the truth of a nitty gritty relationship that is punctuated by anger, pain and many revelations for both mother
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcasthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy Nimoy played the inimitable Spock in the Star Trek series
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Travel and FoodLast November, in the wake of the attacks in Paris that left 130 dead and reignited further anti-Muslim sentiment around Europe, Danish YouTuber Arian Kashef was galvanized to take action. He posted a video on YouTube entitled “Blind Muslim Trust Experiment.” In it, Kashef is seen standing at locations around the city of Aarhus with
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InternationalU.S. President-elect Donald Trump released a video address on Monday, announcing that he will withdraw the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and cancel “job-killing” restrictions on the production of energy. (more) Trump, speaking in a 2-minute video address released by his transition team, said he was preparing to issue a series of executive orders
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International, USAFour police officers were shot in less than a 24-hour period this weekend in a series of violent attacks against law enforcement officers. San Antonio Detective Benjamin Marcon, one of the victims, was shot to death while trying to issue a traffic ticket late Sunday morning. Marcon pulled over a car just outside the Public
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USAVatican City, November 21, 2016: Pope Francis on Monday said priests would now be able to absolve the sin of abortion indefinitely. The decision was published in the Apostolic letter “Misericordia et Miseria,” which was released following the conclusion of the Catholic Jubilee year of mercy on Sunday, EFE news reported. NewsGram brings to you
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InternationalDonald Trump has hosted a lot of dignitaries in the past week. Only one is worth more than the president-elect. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a biotech billionaire with a penchant for bluster, dined with Trump at a New Jersey country club over the weekend to discuss the future of medicine. It’s unclear how he might serve
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has already promised to block several potential appointments in president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet. Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Paul explained to host John Dickerson why he would still make good on his promise to block John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani should one of them be nominated for Secretary of State.
President-elect Donald Trump Monday named Mauricio Claver-Carone, executive director of the most active pro-Cuba embargo group in Washington, to his transition team. Claver-Carone has been one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama’s efforts since December of 2014 to improve relations with Cuba, and his appointment to the Trump team could signal a reversal
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International, USANATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged member states to enlarge the military alliance by ratifying the accession of Montenegro during a summit in Istanbul. Stoltenberg also demanded countries meet their financial commitments after recent warnings from US President-elect Donald Trump, that some allies must pay more. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General said: “Parliaments actually decide
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the early 1950s our record of the month club—started by my late husband, Sam Josefowitz—was expanding into other countries. Concert Hall Society, Handel Society, Opera Society, and Jazztone Society were the first clubs to provide members with a record every month. They were made of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Natasha JosefowitzBy Eric George Tauber If the Grinch had stolen Chanukah, Only a handful of whos would’ve noticed. In the midst of the the Whoville mish-mosh Were there Jew-Whos making a minyan For a kosher Beis Midrash? With no candles lit, would they have still said their brochos, Or shlumped in despair sitting down on
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe dayslong process of taking down a Confederate monument in Louisville, Kentucky began over the weekend, Reuters reported. The move to disassemble the monument came at a time when cities in the south have increasingly begun to remove symbols related to the Civil War. Most notably, South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its statehouse
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