By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — “My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,” wrote Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in his 1987 book, Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.” How Mr. Trump’s […]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will host the annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration event at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Sunday, May 1 at 1:30 pm. San Diego’s commemoration is one the largest in the country with more than 500 community members attending. The commemoration serves as a
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San Diego Calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muni In Angel on My Shoulder, Muni plays Eddie Kagle, a gangster returned from death who makes up for his past life.
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Travel and FoodBeing Selfish by Sarah Marshank, Selfistry.me, 2015, 978-1-68222-814-2, 350 pgs., $17.89. By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — To paraphrase, some things are better left unwritten. I’m not saying that an author doesn’t have the right to speak her piece and put it out there for the market to purchase, however, I can’t imagine throngs
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva TriegerU.S. lawmakers declare Islamic State crimes genocide (JNS.org) The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday evening voted 393-0 in favor of a bipartisan resolution declaring that the Islamic State has committed genocide against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. “ISIS is guilty of genocide,” Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Rep. Ed Royce
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — In Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge film the Inglourious Basterds, a team of Jewish American soldiers wreaks panic and havoc on the Third Reich in German-occupied France by killing as many Nazi soldiers as possible. They do so with relish, one nicknamed “The Bear Jew,” with a baseball
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Being deaf is very isolating. Only a handful of people will ever make the effort to learn your language. The blind are largely reliant on the eyes of others to navigate through the world. Being both is nearly unimaginable, but that was the world of Helen Keller. “She
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Jonathan Valverde, the pastor’s son with an operatic voice who founded Latinos for Israel, has returned from a trip to Israel where he performed with Israeli signer David D’Or. Valverde was invited there by the Israeli singer after an appearance in San Diego at which Valverde also sang. Here is a video
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcasthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Mikhoels
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Federation of San Diego County “is excited to be leading the way in green energy by upgrading San Diego’s Jewish Community Building, which houses not only Federation, but many partner Jewish nonprofits, to solar powered system that will greatly reduce the buildings impact the on environment, according to
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San Diego CountyBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The words we use are important, especially when explaining a situation or making an argument. Evidently, Israelis haven’t read Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass.” It was Humpty Dumpty who said, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California –After numerous independent surveys have suggested alarming rates of anti-Semitic activity on college and university campuses across the country, AMCHA Initiative today released the first empirical study of its kind demonstrating that anti-Zionist activities, including BDS, anti-Israel student groups and faculty who endorse an academic boycott of Israel, are at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –When Marco Rubio gave the Republican response to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address, why did the National Jewish Democratic Council criticize Rubio? A. They criticized him because the bottled water that he grabbed during his speech was not kosher.B. They criticized him because he said that the United
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireGerman ambassador says ‘occupied territories’ not part of Israel (JNS.org) Following European businesses’ recent demand of Jordan Valley farmers that their products be labeled “manufactured in territories occupied by the Israeli government” before being exported to Europe, Germany has reiterated the requirement for labeling Israeli settlement products. David Elhayani, the head of the Jordan
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