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Israeli security bars wrestling team from competing in Turkey for Olympic qualifier

Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], May 5 (ANI/TPS): The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) barred a delegation of five wrestlers from flying to Istanbul for an Olympic qualifying event on May 9-13. The ban effectively ends the team’s hopes of competing in the Paris Olympics in August. “I’m disappointed, but I knew that […]

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Garvey: Defund Universities that Won’t Protect Students; Strip Tenure from Professors who Support Terror

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey, on a Zoomcast from Hancock Park in Los Angeles, said on Thursday, April 25, that federal funds should be stripped from those colleges and universities that refuse to protect their students from the wave of antisemitic, anti-Israel demonstrations now taking place on college campuses across the nation. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Susan Polgar

Polgár was Women’s World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE’s Elo rating system list of July 1984, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked female chess player in the world. In 1991, she became the third woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. She won eleven medals at the Women’s Chess Olympiad (4 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze). [Wikipedia]

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Nurturing Tradition and Inspiring Purpose: The Journey to the LFJCC’s Core Values

The JCC is widely recognized as San Diego’s center for Jewish culture, community, and heritage and a highly sought-after partner for the county’s Jewish (and secular) organizations. We are a hub for Jewish experience and connection with a powerfully realized, extensive, and deeply embedded culture of welcome and engagement for all ages and stages of life; a force for Jewish connection and engagement throughout the region. [Betzy Lynch]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Emil Jellinek

The new Mercedes racecar was the consistent winner, resulting in increased popularity for the Mercedes line and reflected in the fact that DMG increased the number of its employees from 340 in 1900 to 2,200 in 1904.  In 1902, the company decided to call all its cars Mercedes, registering the name on September 26, ten days after its namesake’s 13th birthday. [SDJW staff]

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Our Shtetl San Diego County: Oct. 7 Reverberates Locally

Her husband is Omri. Her oldest child was 2 and youngest just 6 months old when Omri was taken hostage. Today her youngest child is 1 year old and she doesn’t know if she will even remember her dad. [SDJW staff]

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Brian Grana Tells of His Great Loves: His Late Wife, His Children, and the United States Marine Corps

One of the units with the I-MEF is the Marine Logistics Group (MLG), which then-Major Brian T. Grana was a member of from 2006 to 2009. Later in his career, as a lieutenant colonel, Grana commanded a Squadron at MCAS Miramar. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Alex Bregman

In 2021, the Baseball Writers Association of America honored him with the Darryl Kile Good Guy Award.  In the 2022 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Bregman’s home run set a record at six for most career homeruns by a third baseman. It was the 22nd World Series game he had appeared in.  Bregman’s first child, a son Knox, was born August 1st of that year. [SDJW staff]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Budd Schulberg

In 1941, Schulberg’s first novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, was an indictment of Hollywood’s studio system. Its cold-blooded, driven protagonist, Sammy Glick, was so obviously Jewish that Schulberg was accused of antisemitism. When a higher-up in the Communist Party of the USA demanded that Schulberg make changes in the novel to conform to Communist dogma, he quit the party. [SDJW staff]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Harry Houdini

His escapes became more and more complicated and thrilling, including from nailed packing crates that were lowered into water, riveted boilers, giant milk cans filled with water, and even from the belly of a whale that had washed ashore in Boston.  Sometimes Houdini would have himself put in a straight-jacket and suspended by his ankles from a tall building as the public watched him wriggle free. [SDJW staff]

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