The United States will honor its veterans this November 11, bringing a great sense of pride to the country by celebrating the brave heroes who continue to fight for the freedom of our nation. Here’s how it all began: Veterans Day was called “Armistice Day.” In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed this day as the […]
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USAJewish singer-songwriter and poet, best known for ballad ‘Hallelujah,’ dies month after releasing last album about coming to terms with mortality By AFP , AP and Times of Israel staff Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA) Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When Obama became president, sales of guns spiked. When Trump became president, applications for Green Cards and DACA status spiked. * Donald and Melania Trump have indicated that they have huge plans for redecorating the White House. Although specifics aren’t yet available, reporters have detected that members of Trump’s transition team
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Today’s observance of Veterans Day takes me back to a Memorial Day parade years ago, when it was the custom on Staten Island, NY, to rotate the leadership of the march annually among the various local veterans organizations. Early that May, I got a phone call from a
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Joel H. Cohen, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — During my first year of Rabbinical School I had a roommate who dropped out. After studying for a year, he had had enough. He described Judaism as a giant birthday cake. If you have a little, it’s great. But if you eat the whole thing, you will get
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy drawing lessons from this election. There will be as many explanations as commentators. Among the prominent features is the tilt of pre-election polls toward Clinton. Perhaps a lot of Trump voters were ashamed to tell their true feelings to pollsters. Connected with that was antipathy toward both candidates.
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Ira Sharkansky, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Mason In this sketch with Dean Martin, he is “Murray the barber.”
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Travel and FoodIn March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional sign-maker who had turned his West Carrollton ranch house into a distribution point for Trump yard signs, in high demand
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USAHillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every American newspaper editorial board. It didn’t matter. When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks like Facebook. Forty-four percent of Americans get their news from Facebook, according
During his unorthodox Republican presidential campaign, Donald Trump at times touted his support for longtime progressive causes, promising to reform trade deals, invest in infrastructure, reinstate a key Depression-era financial regulation and combat political corruption. Now, some of Trump’s harshest progressive critics are offering their support for the president-elect on the issues on which they
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USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Like others who voted for Hillary Clinton, I was shocked and saddened by the election results. It took me a while to get my head around the idea that Donald Trump will be our next President. After a while, I had an opportunity to reflect. How could it
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Rabbi Michael Berk Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — As I write these words the presidential campaign, mercifully, is winding down. The ugliest, most unseemly, undignified, and dispiriting campaign in my lifetime is finally laid to rest. David Horovitz, editor of Times of Israel, says we have watched “…a great democracy being battered
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Jewish Religion, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — After everything that has been said and done, this election will probably be remembered as one of the most acrimonious elections, full of mudslinging, accusations of improprieties, and personal attacks that our country has ever seen. The brilliant French political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) wrote
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USARabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief rabbi of Efrat and head of and head of the Ohr Torah Stone institutions, said in an interview with Channel 7 that he believes Trump’s victory is auspicious both for the world and for the State of Israel. “This is a victory for the “common American,”” he said. “The US
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