By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Responding to a petition submitted to the “We the People” website, President Obama called for banning coercive conversion therapy for minors from the LGBT community. Although GOP presidential hopeful (or some may say hopeless) Ben Carson asserted that the resort to conversion therapy should be a matter decided by a […]
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SAN DIEGO–Melanie Rubin, with seder plates of matzoh, charoseth, Pascal lamb shank, karpas and the like still on her mind, spotted this license plate, which seems to be an abbreviation for Pesach. __________________________________________________________________ Care to comment? We require the following information on any letter for publication: 1) Your full name 2) Your city and state (or
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In 1998, despite the fact that Israel was called an “illegal state” and a “parasite” by Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, there was a controversy when it was reported that Israel and Iran were in fact involved in some type of business dealings. What was the controversy? (1)California pistachio growers were unhappy
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ In an interview he gave during his trip to Israel, John Boehner admitted, “I wouldn’t have believed that I would be involved in as much foreign policy as I am today. And it certainly isn’t by choice. It’s just that the world is on fire.” Apparently Boehner hadn’t spoken to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which permits business owners to discriminate against any customer whose lifestyle offends their religious sensibilities. Although critics believe the law sanctions discrimination against the LGBT community, it already is having unintended consequences with Christian Scientists barring doctors from reading rooms,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Which are all real apps? A – Passover Trucks Game, Ultimate Omer 2, and No Chametz. B – Climb the Pyramids, Plague Wizard and Lotsa Matzah. C – Plagues With Friends, Pokématzah and Angry Pharaohs. D – Israelites vs. Zombies, Grand Theft Matzah, and Super Moses Bros. E – Matzah Kombat, Wikiplagues
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireHAIFA (SDJW)– Imaginative students at the Technion in Haifa found a Rube Goldberg way of retelling the Passover story, using various forms of mechanical force to illustrate the highlights that we Jews retell when we read our Haggadahs. Our thanks to our frequent contributor and book reviewer, Dr. Fred Reiss of Winchester, California, for spotting
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SAN DIEGO — We welcome Roni Breite to our coterie of Jewish license plate watchers. She spotted this one, and I’m sure if the owner of the car with this license plate, and Briete had the opportunity, they’d have had a nice long, friendly chat. After all, isn’t that what schmoozers do?
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Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A Knesset member from the Zionist Union has called for the dismissal of Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States who arranged for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, as a first-step to improve American-Israeli relations. A Knesset member from the Likud Party reacted by calling for the impeachment of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Angered by Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and late campaign renunciation of support for the Two State solution, President Obama waited until two days after the Israeli election to phone the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his victory. To add insult to injury, it was a collect call. *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireMELVILLE, New York — This week’s question comes from RASHI, RAMBAM and HAGGADAH-LAMADINGDONG: A Quiz Haggadah of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun. Readers may obtain a free copy by visiting http://rrrjewishtrivia.com/rashi-rambam-and-haggadah.html. Which of the following are all real Haggadot? A. Sixty-Minute Seder, Reudor’s the Doodled Family Haggadah, and Fifty Shades of Haggadah. B. Sammy Spider’s First Haggadah, Haggadah in Another Dimension, and The Celebrated
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire“Israeli Election Roundup” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It’s March Madness time in Israel. Pundits are crunching numbers and filling out brackets, trying to figure out what the composition of the next Israeli coalition government will be. * Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Likud had a “great victory.” This bolsters his claim that he speaks for
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Confident that the Senate possesses the constitutional power to warn Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei that it could reject any nuclear agreement signed by President Obama, the forty-seven Republicans who signed the letter are now planning to open embassies in countries around the world. * During a campaign speech in New
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — (With a shout-out to our new followers in the San Diego Jewish World) In San Diego in 1888, Congregation Beth Israel hired its first rabbi, Samuel Freuder. What career move did Rabbi Freuder subsequently make that he later considered a mistake? A. In 1889, Rabbi Freuder converted to Christianity
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