Ani ma’amin b’emuna shelema be’viat hamashiach, V’af al pi sh’yit’mame’a im kol zeh achakeh lo bechol yom sheyavo. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may delay, I will await him every day – 12th Principle of Faith, from Rambam’s Shloshah Asar Ikkarim By Beth Sarafraz BROOKLYN, New York — One
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒ Right-wing groups are furious over Starbucks red and green holiday cup because it lacks any Christmas symbols. For them, it is just another sign of the war on Christmas. The outcry would have been much worse if Starbucks went ahead with its original plan to make the cups blue
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — To what did Ronald Reagan attribute his strong negative feelings about anti-Semitism? A. He credited his father, John Reagan, a traveling salesman, who told of checking into a hotel while on a sales trip. The clerk said to Mr. Reagan, “I’m sure you’ll enjoy it here; we don’t allow any
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama are having their first meeting today since the passage of the US-Iranian Nuclear Deal. The venue has been changed from the White House to a nearby boxing ring. As a gesture of reconciliation, Netanyahu demanded his new media spokesman Ron Baratz retract his derogatory statements
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MORAGA, California — Our never ending search for Jewish-interest license plates brought us to the East San Francisco Bay Area where David Harrison spotted this one. Whoever the driver is, we wish him or her good health too!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Bill Clinton was the first president to hold a candle lighting ceremony for Chanukkah at the White House, in 1993. What did a 6-year-old girl do at the event? A. She wandered off in the White House, eventually coming upon Chelsea Clinton in her bedroom. Chelsea and the girl played games
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒The Republican presidential candidates will meet this weekend to reform the formats and rules of the remaining presidential debates. Based on leaked memos from insiders in their campaigns, here are proposals the six leading candidates will submit: * Donald Trump: “Switch the program into a reality television show called “The
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — President Abraham Lincoln sent a Jewish man, Issachar Zacharie, as an emissary to New Orleans to promote loyalty to the Union and to spy on Confederate troop movements. How did Lincoln know Zacharie? A. Zacharie was an attorney who gave Lincoln his first job in Springfield in 1836 after Lincoln
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒ The Palestinian Authority has dropped its request to UNESCO to designate the Western Wall as a Muslim Holy site. This followed a request by Israel to declare Medina a Jewish holy site because Mohammed executed the Jews of the Banu Qurayza there after the Battle of the Trench. *
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– We don’t know who Tamara5 is and even if we did, it is not the policy of San Diego Jewish World to identify the drivers of cars whose license plates intrigue us. But we do know that Tamara is a name derived from “Tamar” which in Hebrew means date palm tree. In
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –When Ben Carson visited Israel for the first time in December 2014, he quizzed his guide about the Israeli system of government, asking “In the United States, we have Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. What do you have?” When the guide explained Israel’s parliamentary system in the Knesset, he asked “And what
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey ‒ At this week’s Democratic presidential debate, a podium was set up just in case Joe Biden decided to become a candidate in the primary elections. To make it less obvious that the Vice President was a no-show, the podium was put next to the chair Clint Eastwood talked to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Dear little smart phone, my little, 2- ´ 4-inch, constant companion. How can such a small thing sitting in my pocket replace an eighteen-volume encyclopedia Britannica as well as a shelf with phone directories, dictionaries, a thesaurus, and grammar, foreign-language, and medical reference books? You truly are a
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Natasha Josefowitz, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — How did a Jew named Abraham Zacuto play a role in the saving of Christopher Columbus’s life? A. During the Inquisition, Jews were rounded up throughout Spain and given the choice to convert or be killed. But many non-Jews were swept up in these efforts, as well. Columbus
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