ATLANTA — Georgia’s manual recount began Friday morning as election workers reviewed the first of nearly 5 million ballots to confirm the outcome of the presidential race.The recount started at 9 a.m. and will last until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, resulting in a new, official count in the race where Joe Biden led Donald Trump
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Editor’s Note: Ron Klain is a member of the Jewish community. President-elect Joe Biden named longtime aide Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff, the first official announced by the transition team since the election.Klain began working for Biden in the late 1980s while he was in the Senate, and served as his
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The Australian coal mining city of Newcastle now has a rabbi for the first time in 60 years, with Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossi Rodal taking up the post, the Australian Jewish News reported.Established in 1905, Newcastle’s Jewish community is one of the oldest in Australia, and while the city is now one of the country’s largest
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International, Jewish Religion
A helicopter crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula involving a multi-national observer force killed seven people on Thursday — five Americans, a French national and a Czech citizen, the force said.”We are deeply saddened by the loss on November 12, 2020, of seven of our uniformed military colleagues from three countries who died in a helicopter crash during a routine mission. This included one Czech, one French, and five US MFO members,” the peacekeeping force said late Thursday. [Agence France Presse]
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Middle East, USA
ATLANTA — The campaign between Georgia U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler and the Rev. Raphael Warnock entered a new, more combative phase Thursday as Loeffler unleashed two new attack ads against Warnock and the Democrat hit back with sharp words of his own, calling Loeffler’s campaign to date, including her willingness to accept the endorsement of
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There are two possible ways of behaving when coming into a new environment if one stands out for some reason—like being the only woman, the only foreigner, or someone with different skills. One can try to blend in and fit oneself into the prevailing culture, which may be difficult or not even possible. The other way is to accept the differences instead of hiding them, flaunt them by being even more of an outlier. [Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D]
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International, Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
San Diego City Councilwoman Dr. Jen Campbell has taken exception to testimony by former mayoral candidate Tasha Williamson during a portion of the City Council meeting on Tuesday, Nov 10, when members of the public were invited to comment. Campbell said that Williamson interjected into her testimony on another matter the issue of the race for the presidency of the next City Council in which Campbell and Councilwoman Monica Montgomery Steppe are competitors. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
[Tune: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover]
The issue is simply that I don’t want to leave.
I’m not a loser so I don’t know how to grieve.
I’m sure I’ll find something up my sleeve.
There must be shifty ways to stay in power. …
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
SJP [Students for Justice for Palestine] has a long history since its founding in 1993 of bringing vitriolic anti-Israel speakers to their respective campuses (now numbering over 200 with chapters), and for sponsoring the pernicious annual Israeli Apartheid Weeks, building mock “apartheid walls,” extolling terrorism and the psychopaths who commit it, inviting outrageously biased and Jew-hating guest speakers, disrupting and shutting down pro-Israel events, sending fake eviction notices to Jewish students in their dorms, and jamming resolutions through student government to promote the toxic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign— all these tactics having as their core purpose the demonization of Israel, Zionism, Jewish self-determination, and Jews who support Israel. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Israel is described as a racist country by its detractors. A sizable sector of Israel’s population currently lives in small, crowded apartments in poor, segregated, urban neighborhoods, where their extended families, synagogues, and institutions are located. They constitute about 12% of Israel’s population and most are counted below the poverty line. About half of the men are unemployed. Most of the families are dependent on government aid to supplement their meager incomes. They are prone to riot when they feel threatened by laws promulgated to the general population, often causing police intervention. They are the ultra-Orthodox, known here as the Haredim. Mainstream media coverage of this sector generally depicts them in negative terms. [Steve Kramer]
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Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Middle East, Steve KramerFollowing are academic and popular programs of specific Jewish interest that may be accessed via the Internet. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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The second Coronavirus lockdown has just ended, and the third one can already be seen in the offing. So anyone with a yen for a change of atmosphere and landscape had better utilize the opportunity to take to the open road, and get out of the house. So hubby and I decided to make for the north of Israel, to the Hula wetlands or lake area, since at this time of the year it serves as a stop-over and resting place for many migratory birds making their way from Europe to Africa for the winter. Israel’s location, between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the arid Arabian desert to the east, has made it the preferred flight path for millions of birds migrating from their summer sojourn in Europe to Africa’s warm winter. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, The World We Share, Travel and Food
Outdoors, masked, and socially distanced, members of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club who served in the military raised the American flag, played recorded military music, and briefly recounted some of their experiences protecting America. [Sandi Masori]
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, USA
Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock must navigate an obstacle course to convert voting figures so they can join the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5 and Jewish Georgians wary of “apartheid” phrasing could help swing their elections.
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Bruce Ticker, USA