By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Vice-President Biden announced he will be out of the country when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress. A growing number of Democratic senators are considering boycotting his speech too prompting ZOA to charge that this is just another manifestation of the BDS movement, Bibi’s Democratic Snub. * Brian Williams […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, a Grammy nominee for this year’s Best New Artist, has what Jewish connection? A. Israeli horticulturists at the University of Haifa have developed a breed of azalea which is resistant to petal blight, a common plant disease. They have named this new breed the
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SAN DIEGO–Now here is a license plate rife with possible interpretations. Eran is a Hebrew name, which comes from the word meaning “awake.” So one possible interpretation of this license plate spotted by our maven, Melanie Rubin, is that someone named Eran “ate” — and we’re glad he did because we wouldn’t want him
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SAN DIEGO– With Purim coming up March 4-5, our license plate Melanie Rubin couldn’t help but notice this plate, which reminded her of Vashti in the Book of Esther, who some credit as being among the first women’s liberation advocates for refusing to dance in front of King Ahashuerus and his guests.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ After weeks of appalling atrocities committed by ISIS and Boko Haram, terrorism experts are looking back nostalgically to the good old days when terrorists only hijacked airplanes and negotiated their release for ransom money or the release of imprisoned compatriots. * Archeologists have discovered that ancient humans ate psychedelic mushrooms.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Are Israeli cherries harvested during the Jubilee year? Is Gefilte Phish one of Ben and Jerry’s best-selling Israeli ice cream flavors? Are Tzitzit disease-carrying Mediterranean flies? Did George Washington throw gelt across the Potomac River? The answers to these and many other questions of Jewish Law, Tradition, History, and Popular Culture can be
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Radio talk show host Bryan Fischer was fired from his job as issues analyst for the American Family Association this week. Fischer helped the AFA organize a free Israel junket for the Republican National Committee, but his controversial view that the United States is a Christian nation which does not
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The American Ambassador to Israel met with Bibi Netanyahu to teach him the diplomatic version of the game Red Rover. If the leader of the other side doesn’t say you can come over, stay at home. * The FCC has issued a directive that the Weather Channel now has the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will tell Congress that Israel faces an imminent nuclear attack if Iran is allowed to manufacture an atom bomb. At the end of his speech, he will urge American Jews to make Aliyah to Israel because it is the only place Jews can be safe. *
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SAN DIEGO — Charles Burton sent this photo in, and if it seems a little blurry, well perhaps it was so destined!
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SAN DIEGO–Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven and spotter-in-chief, describes this one, appropriately, as “the mother of all license plates.”
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Dovish political parties opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies have violated diplomatic protocol by inviting President Obama to address the Knesset. Just kidding! Inviting the leader of another country to interfere in the elections and foreign relations of one’s own could never happen─ at least not in Israel. * Worried that
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Mitt Romney told the National Republican Committee in San Diego County that he plans to make eradicating poverty a key part of his 2016 presidential candidacy. Stepping back from his 2012 campaign gaffe, he declared, “I want to elevate the 47 % into the 1 % and rename the current 1
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Asking journalists to exercise more discretion instead of mocking other religions, Pope Francis asserted that if someone cursed his mother, he would punch him. Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? * Syria released a report about its economy indicating that oil was no longer its biggest export product. It
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