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The Sage Hillel Guides Our Choice of Stories

With antisemitism on the rise, it is tempting to stay laser focused on stories that impact our community, but we must resist the temptation.  Those who complain how few people helped Jews during the Holocaust (although the Righteous Among the Nations surely did), need to follow the same moral high road that we wish others would have followed during our time of peril.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

A Republican’s deleted 9/11 tweet about Ilhan Omar slammed as ‘Islamophobic’ by Muslim group

A Republican’s deleted “9/11 tweet” about Ilhan Omar is “disrespectful” to the victims of the terror attacks and is an example of anti-Muslim bigotry, a leading Muslim rights group has said. Republican representative for North Carolina, Greg Murphy, is at the centre of criticism after he directed a now-deleted tweet about the 11 September 2001

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Police, communities across U.S. fight back against anti-Asian hate crimes

By Brittany Hosea-Small, Nathan Layne and Rich McKay SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – More than a dozen San Jose, California, police officers walked through the white arches of the Grand Century Mall in “Little Saigon” to reassure a Vietnamese-American community fearful over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. The officers walked

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Arkansas governor vetoes bill that would bar transgender treatments for youth

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth. But his veto could be overridden by a simple majority vote in the Arkansas Senate and House, which

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History, hints of future in Navy’s mothballed ships in Bremerton, Wash.

BREMERTON, Wash. — The mothballed ships sit there, hulking, looming ghostlike in their gray and rusty coats, sometimes emerging from the water suddenly on a foggy day to surprise new eyes. Though the silent fleet is dwindling, it remains a powerful testament to the Navy’s deep roots in the region and hints of what’s to

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Symeon Shimin’s Humanistic Art

This is a moment to revisit and reflect on the work of Russian-born artist, Symeon Shimin. During his life, Shimin illustrated over 50 children’s books, including two that he authored himself; his masterpiece, however – influenced in part by ‘Los Tres Grandes’ – was the mural painting, “Contemporary Justice and the Child” (1936), located on the third floor of the Department of Justice, where it still stands today. [Sam Ben-Meir]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

‘Teen Wolf’ star Arden Cho says man threatened to kill her, screamed racial slurs

Arden Cho says she experienced a racist attack in which a man threatened to kill her. The “Teen Wolf” star was walking her dog Wednesday night when the man screamed “I’m going to motherf—g kill you c— and your f—g dog,” she said in an emotional Instagram post. Cho, 35, said the man shouted other

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

MLB moving All-Star Game, draft out of Georgia following outcry over voting law

By Amy Tennery (Reuters) -Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Robert Manfred said the league was relocating its 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft from Atlanta, following outcry over Georgia’s new voting restrictions. The removal of the lucrative All-Star Game marks one of the most significant and high-profile protests after Georgia last week strengthened identification requirements

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Sports & Competitions, USA

SDSU Responds Appropriately to Antisemitism

At the beginning of March, another swastika was found scribbled on a dormitory wall. This was the third such incident, but this time J. Luke Wood, vice-president of student affairs and campus diversity, was on it from the start. On March 11, about a week or so after the swastikas were discovered, he sent out a tweet condemning anti-Semitism and expressing solidarity with SDSU’s Jewish faculty, staff, and students. But that was only the beginning On March 30, President de la Torre, Vice-President Wood, and Christian J. Holt, Associated Students President, distributed a campus-wide email announcing “San Diego State University’s enhanced partnership with two local organizations, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Hillel, that share our goal of creating a more inclusive community for Jewish students, faculty and staff.” [Peter C. Herman, PhD]

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rabbi Dosick provides advice on ‘Radical Loving’

Radical Loving: One God, One World, One People,  written by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, begins with the statement, “What an incredible time it is to be alive!”  Immediately the reader is asked to question the author’s opinion “Is it really?”  We turn the page and so begins an anecdote of a village of rice growers and how wonderful their lives are.  Then in an instant, a terrible storm causes a flood that completely destroys their village and their food supply of rice fields. Thanks to one of the village elders, the people were warned ahead of time and were able to escape to higher elevation and were saved.  The anecdote ends of course with a message:  “The village and the fields can rise up again. And the villagers can forever tell the tale.”  Rabbi Dosick is calling on the world to band together and to not forget that we are “One World, One People” and stronger together.  We the readers are the villagers and as my Aunt Nancy has told me, my generation and the next,will be retelling our tale of the 2020 pandemic to our grandchildren for years to come. [Heather Z. Rothstain]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA