By Melanie Ruth Gorelick and Tammy Gilden NEW YORK — Last week, we traveled to both San Diego and Tijuana to learn firsthand about our nation’s immigration crisis as part of a Jewish Leadership Border Mission, led by HIAS and ADL. Participants on the mission met with the Mexican Consul General, immigration lawyers and advocates, […]
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International, Travel and Food, USAAdages for the Trump Era By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything for two days until you are pressured to say something positive you don’t really mean. * A snitch in time almost ought to be outlawed. * Late to bed, early to rise makes
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — This has not been a good year for the Cohen name, or for those who bear it. I’ve tried not to dwell on that reality, but there are constant, stark reminders — in newspapers and on TV. And, just the other day, a longtime dear friend named Jerry brought
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“One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” Jin Kwon By Eva Trieger MAMARONECK, New York — Mamaroneck Library is
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
The Israel Bible (Hebrew and English Edition) by Rabbi Tuly Weisz; Hardcover: 2212 pages; Publisher: Menorah Books; Bilingual edition (July 10, 2018); Language: Hebrew, English; ISBN-10: 1940516803; Cost: $44.00 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — In today’s world, there are all sorts of different types of commentaries on the Scriptures on a variety
Congressional Gold Medal honors memory of Anwar Sadat’s peace-making with Israel History was made in the US Senate when it unanimously passed a bill to honor former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the Congressional Gold Medal. S.266 is a bill, co-sponsored by 71 Senators, is a bipartisan legislation that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch
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Story and photos by Sheldon F. Merel SAN DIEGO — Hadassah presented Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik , a visiting Israeli Professor at San Diego State University, at its third annual event on Sunday, July 26. After Prof. Levin-Banchik’s speech , we heard from two guests about why they are offering $10,000 in matching funds to
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of our big mysteries is Donald Trump. Latest news is a report by his former lawyer that Trump ordered payment of silence money to two babes during the 2016 campaign. And assertions that he fathered a child with a cleaning women at his New York residence. For us, hints
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One day last week three young men (a doctor and two nurses working in an Israeli hospital) were on the beach in Haifa, a city known for its serious efforts at Jewish-Arab coexistence. They were approached by another man and asked if they were Arabs. They answered in the
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Middle EastBy Moshe Phillips PHILADELPHIA —Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, following up his March 18 New York Times (“Israel’s Self-Inflicted Wounds”) tirade against Israeli settlers and several other targets doubled down with a second op-ed in the Times on August 13 with an attack on Orthodox Jewish influence on Israeli politics (“Israel, This
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastUpdated August 27, 2018 A variety of Jewish groups issued statements mourning the death of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), who was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 2008 against then Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Texts of their statements follow. American Jewish Committee: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Senator John McCain.
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — American Jews are wondering what’s happened to Israel and why is it straying so far from its original principles, especially as evinced by the recently-passed Nation-State Law of the Jewish People. I wondered whether to write about this law and whether Jews in America even knew about it.
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Bruce F. Lowitt ZOLFO SPRINGS, Florida – There’s a bit of the Middle East in the middle of Florida, where pomegranates – one of the seven fruits named in Deuteronomy as representing the bounty of Israel – grow in abundance. It’s called Green Sea Farms, 31 acres, six devoted to 130 varieties of pomegranates,
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Bruce F. Lowitt, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAThis year’s fellows will research diverse topics at the Center for Jewish History The Center for Jewish History has welcomed a new cohort of fellows to spend the 2018-2019 academic year engaged in research. They will be working with the Center’s Partners’ archives on their original projects. Varying in their disciplinary and chronological scope, the
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