By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO — Armenia. Who cares? I do. When I read about the skirmishes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, I casually and typically said to myself, like most people, what a shame. But when I had a chance to speak about this with some American-born friends of mine, members of the Armenian Orthodox
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By Mimi Pollack L’Chaim San Diego Magazine SAN DIEGO — My late fiancé, an 8th generation New Mexican, used to tell me about the secret or crypto Jews of New Mexico. He was convinced that although he was raised Catholic, some of his ancestors were “Conversos” or secret Jews who came to New Mexico when
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Jewish History, Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
By Rabbi Benjamin Herman MIAMI, Florida — In seeing footage of members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn publicly burning masks has filled me with outrage and disgust. I recognize that this came in reaction to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s increasing restrictions largely affecting Orthodox Jewish communities where COVID is spreading like wildfire. Yet I
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
“They want me to sit down and shut my mouth. But I never did do that very well.” -quote attributed to Teddy Roosevelt By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When I interviewed Phil Johnson about his solo show in San Diego, A Jewish Joke, he mentioned that he had another project in
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Depending on how you look at it, it has been the good fortune or the misfortune of Jews to reach measurable levels of success in numbers that are disproportionate to our percentage within the overall population. A tiny fraction of the American population, our people have a strong
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League is relieved by Facebook’s announcement that it was updating its hate speech policy to prohibit any content “that denies or distorts the Holocaust.” This comes after nearly a decade of ADL advocating for such changes and just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, where users have been
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, USA
By Yossef Ben-Meir MARRAKECH, Morocco — October 17 marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The commemoration of this day suggests that the way to end poverty is not a matter shrouded in mystery. In fact, its celebration denotes that, at a minimum, the manner to end poverty is most likely established knowledge.
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Business & Finance, International, Lifestyles, Yossef Ben-Meir
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg EDISON, New Jersey — I begin with a question that Jews have been asking for millennia. Why do they hate us? This year we saw a surprising rise in anti-Semitic attacks in America—attacks that never happened before on American soil. Rav Moshe Feinstein—the prime decisor of Jewish Law of the
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Bernhard H. Rosenberg-Rabbi, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
By Janet S. Tiger SAN DIEGO — Written after the contentious election in 2016, my one-act play Mixed Marriage was a winner in the 4th Annual SDC JCC Five Minute Shorts and has even more relevance today. It all started when I heard of friends – Jewish – where the husband and wife had voted for
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — California Proposition 15 would increase taxes on commercial and industrial properties worth more than $3 million by changing the method by which their tax liabilities are calculated. Under current California law, property is assessed on the basis of what the owner paid for it, and that value is
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — I like to ask people, “What is the greatest or most exciting thing that happened in your life?” Some of the answers I received were startling and unexpected. I once asked a woman barber cutting my hair this question. In her reply she recalled a memorable event in her
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Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bond issues are the first measures on both the State of California ballot and on the City of San Diego ballot, asking respectively for the right to borrow $5.5 billion to finance stem cell research (Prop. 14) and up to $900 million to provide affordable housing (Prop. A). {See
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel –Online antisemitism is nothing new but now it seems to be widely targeting our vulnerable youth more than ever before. Hidden under false identities, haters freely reveal prejudice, bigotry, and antisemitic views across virtually all the unruled space of social media. Teenagers who identify as Jewish complain of
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Lifestyles, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2. The new study of Twitter conversations
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International, USA