By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Consider the following facts as you wend your way to the Guggenheim Museum and its uppermost gallery, where you will presently find “The Death of Michael Stewart” (1983), Basquiat’s gut-punching tribute to a slain artist, and the centerpiece for an exhibition that could hardly be more timely. Black people […]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
LOS ANGELES — StandWithUs, the pro-Israel group which offers intellectual debate to Israel’s campus detractors, has issued an “Action Alert” warning against a proposed school curriculum in California that supports the anti-Israel movement. The organization issued the following notice: The State of California is currently reviewing a model Ethnic Studies curriculum, which openly promotes hateful boycotts against Israel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Within 13 hours, two mass shooting took place—in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio—killing 31 innocent people and injuring twice as many. We normally hear about these horrifying incidents, express sorrow and bewilderment, talk about gun control, and move on. Politicians, including Trump, dispatch their old and tired expressions
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Alon Ben-Meir, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Ziv Ayalon, the new director-general of the Tisch Family Zoo in Jerusalem – known popularly as the Biblical Zoo and as the Jerusalem Zoo– said Tuesday he had a special reason for wanting to accompany six Israeli teens to San Diego
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — When I moved to a small city in the South, a place with a long-standing Jewish community, I was disappointed that there was no place to buy kosher meat. There were both Conservative and Reform congregations, yet there was not enough demand. At least the local supermarket carried Hebrew
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Middle East, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration’s presentation of an economic plan — rather than a political plan — for the Palestinians was generally mocked or dismissed. As it percolates, however, it appears the administration, as is its habit, was reading trends. The formulation takes an axe to the notion that all plans,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re past the due date for final party alignments and lists of candidates. It was a scramble the last few days, and the big view to September 17th election is that the results look like the last time, more or less. Beginning on the left, Meretz combined with Ehud Barak,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — There is concern today by many in Israel that some Israelis are unappreciative of their Jewish heritage. Author and journalist Shmuel Rosner has challenged this by suggesting a new paradigm for most of us, whom he calls, “Jewsraelis.” Since Israel’s independence in 1948, Israelis have changed radically. There
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Avigdor Lieberman has stated publicly that because of his endeavor to promote a national unity government (consisting – of course- of himself, Likud, and Blue and White), Likud may have to choose another leader. He mentioned Yuli Edelstein, the current Speaker of the Knesset. In response, the Likud party
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Middle East
The Template for Cable News Programs By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Once upon a time, television news covered a spectrum of international stories in a 30 minute time slot. Now there is a template for cable news programs aired 24 hours per day. Mass Shootings and natural catastrophes preempt whatever else was scheduled to be broadcast.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Jerry Klinger WARRENTON, VIRGINIA –Julius Rosenwald was the organizational genius and President of Sears and Roebuck. Rosenwald felt, as a Jewish American, a deep personal commitment to humanitarian issues. After Sears went public in 1906, Rosenwald, now an immensely wealthy man, faced a dilemma. Rosenwald said, “I can testify that it is nearly
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — In the early 1930 s, visionary Cantor Reuven Rinder of San Francisco ‘s Temple Emanuel raised $ 10,000 to commission the world acclaimed composer, Ernest Bloch to write a setting with the Reform Jewish Sabbath Morning Prayer book of the `1930s. Bloch was already an acclaimed composer
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The ongoing anti-Jewish/anti-Israel movement is finding enablers in credible people and institutions in America. Namely, civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; and The New York Times. The use of enablers is sure to inch our nation closer to the political debacle that has
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Middle East, USA