By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — The name “Jesse Eisenberg” may not be as familiar as, say, Jerry Seinfeld—-yet. But if you saw him portraying Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network you may remember him being nominated for many prestigious Best Actor awards for his work in that movie. Or, more recently, you […]
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The campaign against Moshe Yaalon has produced images recalling the worst of Israeli and Jewish history. A composite picturing him as a target for assassination, with the slogan, “politically liquidated” may be thought by moderate rightists to be only a call to vote against him in the next Likud Primary. However,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – Hillel of San Diego on Sunday, April 10, announced a $5 million gift to build its proposed Hillel Center for Jewish Life near UC San Diego. Received from Joseph “Chickie” Glickman, this donation is the lead gift in the campaign to build the Beverly & Joseph Glickman Hillel Center to serve
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Balsam Balsam plays Murray’s brother Arnold, he comes in at approximately at the 50:00 minute mark
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Travel and FoodSage Advice: Pirkei Avot Translation and Commentary by Irving (Yitz) Greenberg; Maggid Books, New Milford, Connecticut; ISBN 978-1-59264-444-5 ©2016, $24.95, p. 336 plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Pirkei Avot, literally meaning “Chapters of the Fathers,” but often translated as “Ethics of the Fathers,” is part of the Talmud, the written form
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionThe British Labour party’s “shocking” anti-Semitism does not make them “ready to govern,” the former Archbishop of Canterbury stated Saturday – and demanded immediate action amidst a slew of damning incidents. Lord Carey, who is vice president of the Council of Christians and Jews, raised the call for alarm during a speech in a New
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InternationalNEW YORK – In 1920, President William Howard Taft said, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.” Nearly a century later this noxious weed not only remains, it’s on the upswing worldwide, from the Middle East to Europe to US college campuses. This compelled Abraham Foxman,
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USA
Police in Orlando, Florida are conducting a massive search with helicopters and search dogs to try and locate two Jewish high school girls from Miami, who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. Rivka Moshe and Bracha Katz, both 16-year-old students at the Lubavitch Educational Center’s Beis Chana High School in Miami, were taking part in a school
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USATed Cruz is making a play for Jewish Republicans, hoping to pick up support from donors and bundlers disaffected by Donald Trump”s statements on Israel and support from white supremacists like David Duke. On Saturday the Texas Senator spoke at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Cruz warned listeners that
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USAThurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, by Juan Williams, Times Books, 1998 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — There are pivotal moments in history when the entire culture and future of a people and/or a country are forever changed. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in “Brown v Board of Education” was such a moment. It overturned the
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Books, Poetry & Short Storieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Aumont He is the one with whom Ginger Rogers dances at approximately 27:00
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There’re racists in Israel, but Israel isn’t a racist country; we pray that it’ll never become one. Instances of racist manifestations are many, but mercifully the authorities are doing much to deal with them seemingly forcefully and hopefully fairly. The future of Zionism rests on their success. Two of
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Middle EastBy Edwin Black JERUSALEM — For a hard-core segment of travelers to Jerusalem, when the sun sets at the Sabbath, the magic in the air is not just the serene image of a peaceful dusk in an enchanted land. It is the empowering knowledge that the sun still shines on a Jewish State surrounded by
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Edwin Black, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Since he was busy campaigning in Wisconsin, Donald Trump missed his grandson’s circumcision ceremony. Unnamed sources close to Trump have offered another reason: Trump didn’t want to witness his grandson deshlonged. * Pope Francis issued an apostolic exhortation titled “The Joy of Love” advising Catholic clergy to be more lenient
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire