Published by Reuters By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A New York City man was arrested and charged on Tuesday with attempted murder in what police have classified as a hate crime against a Chinese immigrant, authorities said. The victim, identified by police as 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma, was attacked in the East Harlem neighborhood of
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A Concise Guide to Halakha: An Overview of Jewish Law, is one of five new books published by Maggid Books which were authored by the recently deceased scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz who authored 60 books and hundreds of articles. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
Antisemitic incidents remained at a historically high level across the United States in 2020, with a total of 2,024 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). While antisemitic incidents declined by 4 percent after hitting an all-time high in 2019, last year was still the third-highest year for incidents against American Jews since ADL started tracking such data in 1979. [ADL Press Release]
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Jewish History, USA
Thanks to Covid-19 many of us experienced “lockdown” in our homes, yet we can’t begin to imagine what life is like for those who are truly locked down and sequestered from polite society. That is, until the Playwrights Project teamed up with San Diego State University, nine years ago, to bring us Beyond Prison Walls. This innovative, honest and empathetic showcase brought us into the hearts and minds of those who’ve served time at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility and Centinela State Prison. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by Reuters By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -A Republican-led effort to recall California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has garnered enough valid signatures to make the ballot, state election officials said on Monday. Newsom will likely face a recall next fall in a race that is already shaping up to be chaotic, as three
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Published by Reuters By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states that will gain congressional seats based on new population data from the U.S. census, a shift that could boost Republican chances of recapturing the U.S. House of Representatives from Democrats in next year’s midterm elections. The overall U.S. population
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Published by Reuters By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge by Republican-governed Texas to a law enacted by Democratic-led California that bars state-funded travel to states deemed to be hostile to the rights of LGBT people. The 2016 measure was enacted in the most populous U.S.
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Published by Al-Araby A Minnesota mosque was subject to a hate crime this weekend, after anti-Muslim, racist messages were sprayed on its walls. The phrases “death of Islam”, “f*** Islam”, with a Nazi swastika were painted on and around the Moorhead-Fargo Islamic Community Centre in Moorhead, US. A mosque window was also broken and police
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed Ethiopia to address what he called an impending humanitarian “disaster” in Tigray, including rising fears of famine. In a phone call with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Blinken voiced “grave concern about the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crisis in the
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International
Published by USA Features Media (USA Features) The Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights is launching an investigation of the Louisville, Ky., police department over the death of Breonna Taylor about a year after she was shot to death during a drug raid. Following her death, Taylor became one of several young blacks who served
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Published by Reuters By Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A wave of kidnappings is sweeping Haiti. But even in a country growing inured to horrific abductions, the case of five-year-old Olslina Janneus sparked outrage. Olslina was snatched off the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince in late January as she was playing. The
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The United States will send up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine abroad, officials announced Monday, as President Joe Biden pledged to “be there” for India in its hour of need. Critics have accused Washington of “hoarding” the British-developed vaccine, which is not authorized in the
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One hundred and four new immigrants (Olim) from North America, including three generations of a family from San Diego, landed at Ben Gurion Airport on a specially chartered Aliyah flight by Nefesh B’Nefesh, facilitated in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL), and Jewish National Fund-USA. [Nefesh B’Nefesh Press Release]
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Congregation Adat Yeshurun is preparing for the historic installation of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Daniel and Brooke Reich from April 30-May 2, cementing the milestone of the synagogue’s first rabbinic transition in its 34-year history. [Jacob Kamaras]
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Jacob Kamaras, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA