“Leba” is a Yiddish name meaning “beloved.” It could refer to the car or the driver, or possibly to both. Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted it.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The focus today is on Iowa, site of the first 2016 caucuses for President. Iowa’s first Jewish settler dates back to 1833, when Alexander Levi arrived in Dubuque from New Orleans and helped develop lead mines. More recently, a Jewish resident of Postville, Iowa, referred to Jewish life in that town
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LA MESA, California — Judy Friedel sent us this license plate, which literally means “pretty one” in Hebrew. So you might think this is a message about the car, or the driver, but in fact the license plate honors a family pet, a dog named Yofi. The 1 after the name was required because another
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A recent Pew Poll revealed that Americans would be 37 % less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair, 31 % less likely to vote for one who had Washington experience, 26 % less likely to vote for someone who was gay, and 10 %
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SAN DIEGO– Stacie Bresler Reinstein spotted this license plate belonging to someone who apparently believes in long time good health! Gesunt means ‘health’ or ‘healthy.’ We say ‘long time’ because that gedolah on the license plate frame mean long, as in tekiah gedolah — the long blast on the shofar.
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San Diego Calendar, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, NEW YORK — Sarah Palin is in the news for her endorsement of Donald Trump for president. What member of her family has a name which is of Jewish origin? A. Her daughter Willow, who was born on Sukkot and is named after the willow branch that is part of
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Track Palin faces domestic-violence charges after assaulting his girlfriend who was worried that he would commit suicide with an AR-15 rifle. His mother Sarah Palin blamed President Obama for Track’s mental instability because he hasn’t done enough to help returning veterans from Iraq who suffer from PTSD. Army psychiatrists treating
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireMELVILLE, New York — Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom has aroused controversy by her critical remarks concerning Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. There have been Jews in Sweden for many years. What is perhaps the first record of a Jewish presence in Sweden? A. Jews were well established throughout much of Europe by the Middle Ages; however, there
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Fending off Donald Trump’s questioning of whether he is eligible to serve as president, Ted Cruz has hired Aretha Franklin to sing “You Make Me Feel like a Natural Born Citizen.” at his campaign rallies. * In response to criticism for his slow reaction to the water contamination crisis in
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — What is it about women’s hair that preoccupies people so much? There was a time when it was considered unseemly for a woman to be seen with her hair uncovered. Still today Queen Elizabeth is never seen without a hat, and presumably for a similar reason it is
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe State of the Union in Review By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Barack Obama gave his final State of the Union address yesterday. He titled it “The Great of the Union.” Donald Trump could not resist rebutting the President’s speech. He called it, “The Hate of the Union.’ Although no longer a presidential candidate, Scott Walker
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — What is David Bowie’s Jewish connection? A. Bowie performed at a concert at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv in 1990, during the time of the first Intifada. During the performance, he altered the lyrics of his song, Space Oddity, singing, “Ground Control, we need Salaam. Ground Control, we need Salaam.
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SAN DIEGO — Stacie Bresler-Reinstein, a friend of our license plate maven Melanie Rubin, spotted this license plate telling of a car that’s just right for a grandpa!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump’s first television campaign ad reiterates his intention to build a wall on the Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. To illustrate the porousness of the southern border, the ad features footage of refugees streaming across it. The problem is that the border in the film is
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