The Jewish actors: Sylvia Bataille
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Bataille Bataille is the young woman on the swing
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UC Regents approve new guidelines on anti- Semitism
(Editor’s Note: Comments on the UC Regents’ decision may be found below from leaders of the AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, StandWithUs, Hillel International, and the Zionist Organization of America.) By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Regents of the University of California (UC) for
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASanders’ supporters say no to Clinton in November
By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — Dylan Souza wore a Pokémon outfit, including yellow headgear, to the San Diego Convention Center. But his presence Tuesday night at the Bernie Sanders rally wasn’t Comic-Con kid stuff. If the Vermont senator doesn’t win the Democratic nomination, he said, “I’d probably end up voting for Elizabeth Warren” as
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USACampus groups stifle free speech — except theirs
By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s March 11th rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion was shut down last week by hundreds of leftist protestors, comprised of activists from Moveon.org, Black Lives Matter, Muslim groups, and even unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the morally indignant protestors had
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USADoes Europe need Israeli- style security measures?
By Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There seems to be a subtext in the extensive coverage in the Israeli media of the attacks in Brussels this week: liberalism is very laudable but it endangers the security of innocent citizens. Commentators have had much to say about how easy it is for would-be terrorists to hide because
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International, Middle EastMemoir of a childless, fatherless Jew
The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness by Elliot Jager; Toby Press, London, England By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I was given Elliot Jager’s book, The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness, as a gift, and must admit that it is not a book I would have chosen to read in the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-VansonMiddle East Roundup: March 23, 2016
IDF soldier collapses, dies during physical training (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A new recruit to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Givati Brigade collapsed and died on Tuesday during physical fitness training at a base in the Negev desert. Private Yehuda Suisa, 19, from the town of Beit Uziel, had enlisted in the army on Monday.
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Middle EastEuropean Jewish News: March 23, 2016
After Brussels attacks, Belgian Jews scale down Purim festivities (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Brussels Jewish community is scaling down celebrations for the Purim holiday on Wednesday and Thursday as Belgium recovers from Tuesday’s bombing attacks that killed 34 people. The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. “We are going have
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InternationalGod needs worthy people as partners for His miracles
God and Politics in Esther, 2nd Edition, by Yoram Hazony; Cambridge University Press; (2015); ISBN-10: 1107583454; $18.27 on Amazon. Rating ***** out of 5 Stars. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Yoram Hazony’s exposition of the Book of Esther is priceless. In my Judaism 101 class, everyone read a little bit from God
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiThe Jewish actors: Leon Askin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin. This Atari commercial in which he plays “Fez” is remiscent of his General Burkhalter role in Hogan’s Heroes.
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Travel and FoodAnachnu: Rabbi Roberto D. Graetz
By Donald H. Harrison LAFAYETTE, California – It has been a quarter century since Rabbi Roberto D. Graetz came to this Northern California community after serving as a rabbi in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But the soon-to-retire senior rabbi of Temple Isaiah has remained intimately involved in Latin America as a
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionAmerican Jewish Report: March 22, 2016
House approves bill to inurn WASP ashes at Arlington WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, a Jewish Democrat from San Diego, praised the passage of bipartisan legislation to restore the inurnment rights for Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) at Arlington National Cemetery. Davis is a lead cosponsor of the WASP Arlington Inurnment
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USAWhen God is silent, Jews find a proxy such as Esther
By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Purim, or “Lots,”—a woman’s heroic story based in historical facts—begins Wednesday evening, March 23. The Scroll will be merrily read, recounting the rescue of the Persian Jews in 357 BCE from genocide. It should be noted that God is neither mentioned nor quoted anywhere in the text. God
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Jewish History, Jewish ReligionMiddle East Roundup: March 22, 2016
Brussels rocked by terror blasts, about 30 believed dead (JNS.org) Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels on Tuesday in the worst terror attack to hit Europe since the Islamic State-organized terror attacks in Paris last November. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Brussels Zaventem airport, and a third detonated his bomb at
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