By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After five months of struggling her way out of Rodney-Dangerfield status, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren could lose much of the voters’ respect through a crisis of her own making – hiring a campaign staffer assailed for a long history of harsh, one-sided opposition to Israeli policies. It is […]
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –Although in my mind I’m still the eager, naïve 22 year old who came to Israel to work and study (and get away from the depressing climate and weedy men of the UK), I have to face the fact that time has not passed me by. I’m constantly getting messages
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Travel and Food
POWAY, California (Press Release) — Table tennis champion Estee Ackerman of West Hempstead, New York, visited the Poway Chabad Day Camp, north of San Diego on Tuesday July 9. She spoke to the campers about her ping pong career, her Shabbos challenges and her chance at the 2020 Olympics. After all the campers and most
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San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
Times of San Diego POWAY, California — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife met with leaders of Chabad of Poway Thursday during a day-long official visit to the San Diego area. “Karen and I were honored to stop by the Chabad of Poway, the site of a terrible shooting in April,” Pence tweeted after
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Isaac Herzog is a prince in Israel. His father was the country’s sixth president, his grandfather its first chief rabbi. He himself was a Member of Knesset for 15 years, some of it as a cabinet minister. As the head of Israel’s Labor Party he was also the Leader
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International, Middle East, USABy Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — A Cagle cartoon at The Moderate Voice used images of Nazi concentration camps to bring attention to the plight of detained illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and their children – many separated from their parents – languishing at barbed-wire-enclosed, cage like detention centers. The final image in the
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Eighty organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting, and to demand he take immediate action to address her “unlawful” conduct. The concerns are also being raised to CSU General Counsel Andrew
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Daniel Sokatch SAN FRANCISCO — “I lost a boy.” My heart breaks to read those words from Vorka Teka, the grieving father of Solomon Teka z”l. It has been just over a week since Vorka’s son Solomon was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in a public park in Kiryat Haim, a suburb
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International, Middle East, USABy Cynthia CitronLOS ANGELES — The play takes place on a nearly empty stage, unencumbered by scenery or props, except for a row of shiny black folding chairs and a toilet seat that the actor holds in front of his face as he enters, after emitting the sound of vomiting from backstage. And to illuminate
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) – In celebration of its 80th anniversary, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) on Wednesday announced the inaugural Israeli Culture & Arts Awards (ICA Awards) to honor the most exceptional Israeli artists in design, theater, music, art, dance, and television/film. The luminous awards ceremony will be held in concert with the foundation’s
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
JAFFA, Israel (Press Release) — On the 43rd anniversary of Operation Entebbe, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation was honoured to present to the public rare notes written by Defense Minister Shimon Peres during the preparation of the daring rescue mission, one of them addressed to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The ceremony was attended
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International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Judy Gruen Aish.com AUSTIN, Texas — The middle school students pass the small brown suitcase from one to another in the school auditorium. They each take a moment to touch its smooth, worn leather, and to look at the six-pointed yellow star that says “Jude” stamped on it. The metal closures are long broken,
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International, Travel and Food, USA
By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — My story “Hannover to Terezin, roundtrip please,” appeared on San Diego Jewish World on June 2, 2018. It has had remarkable unexpected consequences. My interest in Theresienstadt (the German name for the Czech Terezin) started in the 1980s when my mother gave me my grandfather’s papers. They
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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak
Story and photos by Steve Kramer EFRAT, Israel — Just minutes away from Jerusalem lies Gush Etzion (Etzion Bloc), nestled in the Hebron hills. It is certainly part of the Land of Israel, but it’s not run according to Israeli civil law. Instead, like the rest of Judea and Samaria, Israeli military law governs. Today
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer