After blasting Rep. Adam Schiff for elevating Republican Steve Garvey in the U.S. Senate race, Rep. Katie Porter is pulling a similar maneuver with Eric Early, who’s also running for Senate as a Republican. [Lynn La, CalMatters]
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Published by DPA After the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israel strongly rejected calls for a truce. This “absurd notion of a ceasefire” was constantly being thrown around within the Security Council and the UN General Assembly as if it was “a silver bullet, a
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Published by Raw Story (CA) Two rabbis sat down for dinner at Chabad Jewish Center in Pensacola, Fla. The air on this July evening was warm and tranquil. A sense of peace filled the kitchen where the men shared their meal. Suddenly, something crashed through the window, sending glass flying. The rabbis rushed over to
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Published by DPA International A draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip failed in the UN Security Council on Tuesday after the US again vetoed the text tabled by Council member Algeria. Given concerns about a possible major Israeli offensive on the crowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza, the proposal
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He was on the prosecution team that convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of espionage, leading to their execution. His work on that case prompted Senator Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, to appoint Cohn as the chief counsel on the Communist-hunting Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. [SDJW staff]
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Published by The Mercury News OAKLAND, Calif. — Antisemitic and pro-Hamas graffiti has been spray painted at different sites around Lake Merritt, community members said. It is the second time in two months an anti-Jewish act of vandalism has occurred near the lake. The graffiti was discovered Sunday painted on columns at the Lake Merritt
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Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — The national “Abandon Biden” movement on Monday launched an effort to encourage Muslim voters and allies in Pennsylvania to ditch President Joe Biden in November. Leaders of the movement, which seeks to punish Biden for supporting Israel and failing to call for a cease-fire in Gaza last year,
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Published by ANI News Washington DC [US], February 20 (ANI): The United States has proposed a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas and warning against an Israeli ground incursion into Rafah, CNN reported. Notably, Israel is planning to carry out a ground operation in Rafah, where
Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch There was a moment during a recent meeting between the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board and a high-ranking Israeli diplomat that provided some jolting clarity to the global debate over the war in Gaza. We noted during the discussion that, as a board, we have consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself.
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Published by Mirror By Mataeo Smith The grandmother of the boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch earlier this month has lost a portion of his frontal lobe while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Walli Carranza made a Facebook post three days after the shooting, saying her seven-year-old grandson
The San Diego County Bar Foundation has notified Mary Lundberg that her late husband, former California Assemblyman Howard Wayne (D-San Diego) will be memorialized with a permanent plaque bearing his likeness in the Hall of Justice of the San Diego Superior Court. [SDJW staff]
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I will be hosting the program, and my special guest will be Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, who was Theodore Bikel’s wife during the last years of his life and founder and director of the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project. The songs were selected to illustrate Bikel’s vast range and the large number of his recordings in our Astor Judaica Library. [Eileen Wingard]
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He learned from the FBI that those threats against him were because he was “too close to the Jews.” What was Governor Barnes’s connection to Jews that incurred the wrath of some Georgia racists? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Meyer helped to found Barnard College for women in 1889 across the street from Columbia. Barnard became one of the Seven Sisters of women’s colleges in America. Meyer became an associate editor of Broadway Magazine and also edited Women’s Work in America. She also authored such works as Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901); The Dominant Sex (1911); The Dreamer: A Play in Three Acts (1912); Black Souls (1932) which dealt with lynchings in the South; Barnard Beginnings (1935) and It’s Been Fun: An Autobiography. (1951) –SDJW staff
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