By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Today (May 14) has already been an historic day and it’s barely 9am here in California. Today truth trumped lies and virtue vanquished evil. Today the great Name of G-d was sanctified in His Chosen Land, in His Holy City, by His Chosen People. No, unfortunately, the Holy […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — This is an unprecedented moment for women – and women’s health. We are part of a sea change spurred by #MeToo, a seismic shift in what Americans will — and will no longer — tolerate. The #MeToo movement has brought to light the proliferation of sexual harassment and violence.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — On Monday, May 14, as the United States formally relocated its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a plethora of commentary from government officials, supporters, and opponents. Following are comments which reached the editor’s desk of San Diego Jewish World: THE WHITE HOUSE — President Trump kept his promise
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination. A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Aaron Burr is glacial; Alexander Hamilton is overwrought; King George has skinny legs and a hilarious voice; Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton’s deceived wife) is heartbroken and enraged. The unprecedented and prize-winning musical, Hamilton has been touring far and wide—I finally had the chance to see and hear it here
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Steve Kramer, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release)–The California Legislative Jewish Caucus on Monday commended Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. for including in his final budget proposal funds to maintain and restore the landmark Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Governor released his May Revise in the State Capitol Monday, updating his January proposal with revenue totals from the
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Jewish History, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Testifying as an expert witness before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB)on Friday urged the federal government to take immediate action to stem increasing religious bullying and harassment in U.S. schools. “Religiously-motivated harassment and bullying are on the rise across our
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Jewish History, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marched in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Immortal Regiment in memory of Russian fighters who died in World War II, Israel was getting ready to retaliate for an Iranian rocket attack on Israeli military units in the strategically sensitive Golan.
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — After recently released footage from the Israel/Gaza border confirms the use of children as human shields by Hamas during so-called ‘March of Return,’ The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, is urging United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to denounce the cynical and dangerous child abuse by Hamas that
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International, Middle East, USABy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Jewish Museum in New York City is currently presenting the work of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), featuring just over thirty paintings by one of the most distinctive and significant artists of the early twentieth century. Focusing on still life paintings, of which he was a master, “Chaim Soutine: Flesh” includes
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC applauds the House Foreign Affairs Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5141), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing threats—most significantly Iran’s presence on its northern border. This bipartisan legislation authorizes agreed-upon increases in Israel’s
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Middle East, USABy David Gemunder PHILADELPHIA (JNS) — A fundamental red line was crossed. For the first time in our collective memory, radical activists successfully used anti-Semitism to convince one of America’s largest companies to turn its back on an established and respected civil-rights organization. A little history, for perspective. About a century ago, this country suffered
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USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — It’s done. U.S. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed. In the run up to the inauguration of the deal in 2015, then President Barack Obama promised that the
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA