Standing Together 2024: A Community Response to Antisemitism
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Some young voters can’t bring themselves to vote for Biden this year over the war in Gaza
Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — “Vote blue no matter who” was Madelyn Shick’s mantra before she could even vote after former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016. She argued with people supporting third party candidates, but now she’s on the other side of that dispute. Shick, 22, said she can’t vote for any
Pro-Palestine professor who said ‘Zionism has always been racist’ and one of the ‘five pillars of Islamophobia’ wins landmark case against dismissal
Published by GB News A Pro-Palestinian professor who was accused of antisemitic comments has won a landmark case against his dismissal from his post at Bristol University. Professor David Miller was “unfairly dismissed” from his role at the Russel Group University, following remarks he made about Israel where he stated that “Zionism has always been
Today’s Jewish Birthday: Zsa Zsa Gabor
Gabor was married nine times, in order to Buthan Belge, Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, Herbert Hutner, Joshua S. Cosden, Jack Ryan, Michael O’Hara, Felipe de Alba, and finally a 30-year marriage to Frederic Prinz von Anhalt which lasted from Aug. 14, 1986 to Dec. 18, 2016. She once quipped, “I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” [SDJA staff report]
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International, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, USASunken submarine in Haifa Bay made historical site
Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], February 6 (ANI/TPS): For the first time in Israel, the submarine “Shira” (scire) in Haifa Bay has been designated as a historical site for preservation. It has been marked on the nautical maps of the Israel Mapping Center in order to protect and preserve it as part of
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International, Israel, NordotUN Chief Guterres announces formation of independent panel to assess UNRWA
Published by ANI News New York [US], February 6 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the formation of an independent panel in order to evaluate the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Al Jazeera reported on Monday. The humanitarian organization has faced criticism due to claims made by Israel that
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International, Israel, NordotOur Shtetl San Diego County: Snapshots of Antisemitism at Local Universities
The chairman of the University of California Board of Regents, Rich Leib, who is a San Diego County resident, disclosed to Sunday’s symposium on antisemitism cosponsored by the Jewish Federation of San Diego and the American Jewish Committee that the stands he has taken against antisemitism has prompted 120 groups to call for his resignation. “I can say that is not going to happen,” he declared during a panel session on campus antisemitism. [SDJW staff]
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Antisemitism, California, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USADemocratic Senate Candidates in California Split on Israeli Ceasefire; Agree on Combating Domestic Antisemitism
The most significant difference among the candidates was their answers to the ceasefire question. While she favors eliminating Hamas as the power controlling Gaza, Lee said, “what I don’t think will assure Israel’s security is killing 26,000 women and children and civilians.” [Donald H. Harrison]
Charges likely against 6 in Gaza war protest that shut down I-5 in Seattle
Published by The Seattle Times The Washington State Patrol will recommend charging at least six people in relation to the Israel-Hamas war protest that shut down Interstate 5 for nearly five hours last month, the agency said. An additional 10 people involved with the protest, which led to backups extending miles south of Seattle, are
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Israel, Middle East, Nordot, USATreading on difficult ground, Florida lawmakers want to define ‘anti-Semitism’
Published by Orlando Sentinel A bipartisan bill seeking to define what speech is considered anti-Semitic is moving through the Florida Senate after easily passing the House. Rep. Mike Gottlieb, D-Plantation, sponsor of the House bill, said the goal is to curb hate speech toward Jews and Israel that has been on the rise across the
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Antisemitism, Israel, Nordot, Travel and Food, USAJewish Trivia Quiz: Noah Kahan
Kahan has referred to himself as the Jewish Capaldi (a reference to Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi) and also as the Jewish Ed Sheeran. What has Kahan tweeted with a Jewish context? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAStephen Schwartz’s Midrash: ‘The Children of Eden’
Just as Stephen Schwartz has yet to be recognized widely as a great commentator on the Torah, so too has Children of Eden lacked its moment in the spotlight. Both Schwartz and this musical are well-kept secrets that beg to be brought
into conversation with the study of Bereshit. [Adira Rosen]
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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAToday’s Jewish Birthday: Red Buttons
He won an Academy Award as the Best Supporting Actor in Sayonara, a movie drama about the prejudice faced by an American airman who marries a Japanese woman, played by Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Academy Award as best supporting actress. More movies came later including Hatari!; Five Weeks in a Balloon; The Longest Day; The Poseidon Adventure; They Shoot Horses Don’t They; Pete’s Dragon; When Time Ran Out; and 18 Again! [SDJW staff report]
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Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, USAJewish Biography: Banker Ludwig Bamberger Almost Was Hanged as a Revolutionary
“The Red Jew” was probably the richest revolutionary in history. His range of occupations was immeasurably broad, and his activities were full of attempts to improve Germany and to forget the Jewish people. He became one of the first statesmen of a united Germany, but remained an outsider in the society of which he aspired to be a full member. [Alex Gordon, Ph.D]
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