The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger; Scribner, 289 pages including index; $27. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This book, no doubt, will be remembered as important for going beyond the realm of a Holocaust memoir and becoming a Holocaust life lesson. For Eger, the retelling of her experiences at […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish HistoryBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –President Trump’s new strategy that would presumably win the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is doomed to fail, just like Bush’s and Obama’s before him. At best, the reported dispatch of an additional 4,000 American troops as recommended by his security chiefs will prevent the total collapse of Afghanistan
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, USANobel Prize winning physicist warned against the ‘naive’ approach towards Germany from the then British PM By Jewish News reporter Albert Einstein 1938 ALS Regarding Hitler. Photo credit: Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://natedsanders.com/Albert_Einstein_1938_ALS_Regarding_Hitler_______Ho-LOT46972.aspx) A letter from Albert Einstein to his best friend in which he criticises Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany is to be
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Jewish History, USAPop great Billy Joel donned a yellow Star of David at a concert in New York in a powerful but silent statement against white supremacy following the violence in Charlottesville. The Piano Man, who is rarely overtly political, returned Monday night to play his encore at Madison Square Garden sporting the Star of David on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThe Shin Bet intelligence agency has gathered information about 20 Israelis who joined the ranks of the ISIS terrorist organization in Syria, Channel 2 News reported. The majority of the Israeli citizens who joined ISIS were Israeli Arabs. However, two of the terrorist group’s Israeli recruits were born Jewish. The two had immigrated to Israel
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Middle EastRebbetzin Tova Eliyahu, wife of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the rabbi of the city of Safed, told Arutz Sheva about the Arab intrusion of the family’s home in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, which was undergoing renovations. “I received a phone call in the morning that someone broke into our apartment. Four Arab thugs entered, broke
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Middle EastAnti-Semitic and race-related graffiti was found scrawled at three schools in the town of Markham, a suburb of Toronto, over the weekend, reports CP24. Police have launched an investigation. Disturbing messages that equated Jewish symbols with Nazism and made reference to the KKK and “White Power” were found on playground equipment at a public school
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InternationalA partner at a British law office has been fined after calling for the murder of Jewish refugees and “Israeli Zionists”. Forty-year-old Majid Mahmood, director of Liberty Law Solicitors and a partner at the City Law Chambers in Luton was fined 25,000 pounds ($32,100) by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over several social media comments he
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International, Middle EastA Russian flight attendant is suing for discrimination after she claimed she was given less prestigious job opportunities at Russia’s top airline Aeroflot because of her looks, the Associated Press reported Monday. Yevgeniya Magurina joked about the fact she was in the “old, fat and ugly” group, but was serious about not getting to work
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International, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– As we honor the tradition of Kever Avot, of visiting the graves of loved ones, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the San Diego Rabbinic Association (SDRA) provides the following services open to the entire community: Kever Avot Services, September 24th, 2017 Home of Peace Cemetery 3668 Imperial Ave San Diego
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarNATO air police jets intercepted Russian air force spy planes above the Baltic Sea on three occasions in the space of just two days, Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday. Lithuania and Estonia host a small group of NATO jets sent by different allies which patrol the skies above all three Baltic countries, including
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InternationalDonations to the Anti-Defamation League, one of the oldest anti-discrimination, anti-Semitic organizations in the United States, have spiked sharply since the violence in Charlottesville, the group said Monday. ADL spokeswoman Betsaida Alcantara said donations like the one from James Murdoch — head of Fox News, who last week announced a million-dollar donation — as well
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USAJordan’s King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for new “serious and effective” peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the royal palace said. Meeting in Amman, they urged “the resumption of serious and effective negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel to end the conflict on the basis of a
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Middle East, USANorth Korea released a video Saturday depicting missiles crashing down on Guam and President Donald Trump looking out over a field of white crosses. “The fate of the sinful United States ends here,” warned the video, according to the Washington Post, Monday. The U.S. and South Korea began joint military exercises Monday, an annual event
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