Trump Tower looms over this part of midtown Manhattan. Today it is arguably at the center of the closely watched political activity that dominates the electoral landscape in this country. It was just a week ago, a few days prior to Shavuos, and while we were not there to see the man who knows how […]
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich is marking 46 years since he and a group of Jewish refuseniks were arrested at Leningrad Airport, on June 15, 1970, as they tried to hijack a Soviet plane to Israel. He was released 11 years later. “I am celebrating a birthday,” he said. The famous “prisoner of Zion” spoke exuberantly to
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International, Middle EastGermany’s top Jewish group Thursday labelled as “disgusting” plans for a weekend auction of Nazi memorabilia, including Hermann Goering’s silk underpants. The Central Council of Jews in Germany appealed to the auction house Hermann Historica to cancel the controversial sale of Nazi relics planned for Saturday in the southern city of Munich. The council’s president
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InternationalWith increased anti-Semitic activity across New England, Jewish and Israeli residents of Newton, Massachusetts, met with Mayor Setti Warren to voice their concerns regarding incidents in the town”s school system. The forum, attended by about 150 people, was organized to discuss several acts of anti-Semitic vandalism at a Newton school that had gone unreported in
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Travel and FoodDr. Irving Moskowitz, one of American Jewry’s leading philanthropists, has passed away aged 88. A passionate and lifelong support of Israel, Moskowitz, together with his wife Cherna, founded and led the Moskowitz Foundation in 1968, which supported countless initiatives in Israel and across the Jewish world. The couple also founded the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism,
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Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If there’s one continent on Earth where the twin impacts of global warming and climate change are very much on the minds of the people who live there, it’s Australia. It’s doesn’t help that the Australian government is lagging behind on legislating progressive climate change policies, but there’s something about
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, The World We ShareBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Though I’ve voted in Israeli elections whenever I’ve been in the country, I’ve never wanted to belong to a political party. But some of the critics of recent speeches by Ehud Barak and Moshe Ya’alon have helped to find one I might like: they call it the Party of the
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Judaism holds that human life is absolutely and fundamentally sacred. With three exceptions (murder, sexual assault/incest/adultery, and public idolatry), any mitzvah in Judaism can be violated in order to save a human life. It may even be argued this violation is not voluntary but obligatory: mitzvot must be
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — The formation of the new nation had materialized. The Holy Tabernacle was erected, a census was performed, the army was established, and the tribes were given their flags and assigned positions around the Tabernacle. Then G-d commanded: “Send out all people with Tzoraas (individuals who contracted a spiritually-generated skin
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Jewish ReligionLauder: Auschwitz guard ‘got the sentence he deserved’ (WJC) Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), on Friday welcomed the Detmold court’s verdict in the trial of former Auschwitz camp guard Reinhold Hanning. Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for complicity in the murder of at least 170,000 people
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InternationalArab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi to take part in another Gaza flotilla (JNS.org) Arab member of the Israeli Knesset Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List) is expected to participate in a women’s flotilla to the Gaza Strip in September, sources close to Zoabi told Israel Hayom. Zoabi plans to participate in the Women’s Boat to
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Travel and FoodBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Any of us who have listened to KPBS radio have heard Richard Lederer (aka The Verbivore, the Wizard of Idiom, Attila the Pun & Conan the Grammarian). “A Way With Words” –which he hosted from 1998 to 2006- is must listen radio for folks who delight in etymology
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireOne of the things that caught my attention when I recently interviewed former Mexican President Vicente Fox was that he seemed more worried about Donald Trump’s authoritarianism than by the presumptive Republican nominee’s constant Mexico bashing. In much of the world, Trump is seen as a potential tyrant, and has even been compared — probably
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