Recent court decisions have fined Donald Trump nearly half a billion dollars. To raise this much cash, Trump is selling personal possessions and starting new businesses. Here’s some of them … (Laurie Baron, Ph.D)
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Published by Cambridge Independent Protesters disrupted the city council’s budget meeting to urge it to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Members of the public chanted “ceasefire now”, preventing the meeting last Thursday (February 15) from continuing. Representatives from the Cambridge Young Greens and two campaign groups had submitted questions to the council about
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Published by Euronews (English) Hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the RAI headquarters in Rome on Saturday, protesting against the state broadcaster’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza. The action followed protests in Milan, Turin, Florence, Naples and Bologna, where police clashed with demonstrators, injuring some with batons. The protesters have accused RAI management
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In 1975, Forman had his first big hit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, about life in a psychiatric ward, which won him an Oscar as best director. In 1979, he directed Hair, based on the Broadway musical but it did not do well financially. In 1981, he directed Ragtime, based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, and in 1985, he won another Academy Award for directing Amadeus, about the life of Mozart. [SDJW staff]
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Every synagogue has its own personality. Farber said that Temple Etz Rimon’s is that “it is very, very friendly. Warm. You come into the building and you are greeted. You are welcomed at the oneg. They grab you; they love you. People will say, ‘Oh my God, you are so friendly!’ We are. There is no snobbishness in the group. It’s really a nice congregation. Unfortunately, it is getting smaller and smaller.” [Donald H. Harrison]
Beth Sirull completes her tenure as CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego on March 15, when she will be succeeded by Jeremy Pearl, who currently is the foundation’s chief financial officer. [SDJW Staff]
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Written with humor as well as heart ache, Jane Muschenetz touches in All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents on her raw feelings of becoming a refugee during the Russian invasion of her home country, Ukraine, and being transplanted to San Diego. [Pennell Paugh, East County Magazine]
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Published by DPA International German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made an usually direct call for Israel to comply with international humanitarian law, in view of a planned ground offensive against the packed city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “Obeying international law and the rules is something which is not just something we do because
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Stern remarked, “The court’s ill-advised decision that perpetuates discrimination against Belgian Jews and Muslims is deplorable. This ruling is a backward step, not a matter of animal welfare, but a clear suppression of religious freedom and liberty. We cannot stand idly by as instances of religious persecution unfold.” [World Jewish Congress]
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In 1967 Potok published The Chosen, and in 1969 a sequel The Promise, which helped delineate differences between Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. The Chosen was made into a film in 1981. In the interim, the Potoks moved to Jerusalem in 1970, returning to the states in 1977. Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev was published in 1972. [SDJW staff]
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Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is endorsing the campaign urging Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the Feb. 27 presidential primary in protest of President Joe Biden’s policy in Gaza. In a video posted to social media Saturday, Tlaib said it’s important to not just march against the “genocide”
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Melanie Rubin has done it again. She found a Jewish interest license plate belonging to someone who worked, and perhaps grew up, on an Israeli kibbutz. We’re happy to add this to her collection of license plates … [SDJW staff]
U.S. President Joe Biden demanded a temporary ceasefire to secure the release of hostages in Gaza, claiming that the deal “has to” go through before Israel launches a military operation in the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. [JNS.org]
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Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], February 17 (ANI/TPS): A terrorist opened fire on innocent people at a bus stop at a major highway intersection in central Israel on Friday afternoon, wounding five people, including one soldier. The attack occurred at the Bne Re’em Intersection, also known to Israelis by its Arabic name “Masmiah.”
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