Whatever side you may take in the court case in which former President Donald Trump was arraigned on Tuesday, April 4, in Manhattan criminal court, there is a member of the Jewish community who is formally on that side. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — After news broke that three children and three adults were gunned down in Nashville, I spent some time perusing the Anti-Defamation League’s lengthy report on antisemitic incidents last year. It covered much ground, and one could say that nothing about it disturbed me. There was nothing about gun-safety laws
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — I had mixed feelings about watching the movie Jesus Revolution because I remembered how our Jewish press reacted to Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ back in 2004. Writers who didn’t normally comment on movies had a lot to say about how this movie would surely be bad
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Eric George Tauber, Opinion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWith former President Donald Trump expected to be arraigned in Manhattan on Tuesday, there is much to report. But let’s not lose sight of other news that also is occurring both in the political world and among Jewish celebrities. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USAI’ve watched CNN commentator Van Jones many times on television. Now I’ve learned more about him from watching The First Step, a 90-minute documentary about the role he played in lobbying for prison reform. He suffered severe criticism from the right and from the left, but he stuck to it, engaged his critics in dialogue, and in 2018 helped to cobble together a coalition that passed HR 5682 by a vote of 355-58 in the U.S. House of Representatives and 87-12 in the U.S. Senate. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Chances are the students who receive the scholarships know only a little about their benefactor, the late Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman, a Republican from New York and a member of the Jewish community. Towards the end of his congressional career, he urged his colleagues “to defray eligible study- or intern-abroad costs,” according to the website of the Gilman International Scholarship Program. “These costs include program tuition, room and board, books, local transportation, insurance, international airfare, passport and visa fees.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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By Doron Krakow Over the past few days, a series of remarkable gatherings took place across the continent—gatherings of hundreds of Jewish Community Center professionals from dozens of JCCs, centers, and camps representing different regions of our movement. Programs and settings varied, but each one focused on skill-building while addressing emerging challenges around programs, operations,
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Doron Krakow, Lifestyles, Opinion, USA
When former U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who has been conducting a grand jury inquiry into a “hush money” payment from Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels, he called Bragg a “Soros backed animal who doesn’t care about right or wrong no matter how many people are hurt.” [Donald H. Harrison]
In a March 29 interview, Black expressed the conviction that the 18 cities and the county government have the staff and the wherewithal to solve the homeless problem in the greater San Diego region, but lack the will, vision, and organization. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It would take someone like Carolyn McCoy to explain the words of Kareem Tannous, a terminated college professor whom she defends in a letter published last Friday in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tweets the biz prof on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “#zionism is the disease #Free Palestine is the cure
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by Reuters By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, expected to be a top contender for the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential nomination, will travel to Israel next month as the country is being riven by a crisis that has led to widespread protests. The trip, which is being billed by DeSantis’
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Published by Reuters By Jeff Mason and Maayan Lubell WASHINGTON, JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon a judicial overhaul proposal that led to massive protests in Israel, prompting the Israeli leader to say he does not make decisions based on pressure from abroad. Netanyahu
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By Sam Litvin SAN DIEGO — Two things happened Monday that stressed the importance of this moment in Jewish history. One is a lunch meeting with a fellow wrestling coach, who is not Jewish but asked me “What is happening in Israel?” The other is a fellow Kellogg-Recanati Alum who is running a startup from
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Avi Miller, a Baltimore native who investigated other parts of the USA before deciding to move more than a year ago to San Diego, was the clever communicator for Team Israel on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the recent World Baseball Classic. [Donald H. Harrison]
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