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Wrong to use Holocaust analogies in immigration battle

By Jack Rosen NEW YORK –When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently used the term “concentration camps” and the expression “Never Again” to refer to the detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border, I found myself torn. The pain and urgency of America’s immigration and asylum crisis are immense. At the same time — and although my position […]

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International, Jewish History, USA

Protests, riots, believed fueled by non- Ethiopians

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Several days of demonstrations turned violent throughout the country. Roads were blocked for hours, property destroyed, and claims were made that Ethiopians had murdered police. It began in response to an occurrence in a public park, when an off-duty policeman approached a group of young men quarreling. Indications are that

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Trinidad, Colorado, celebrates Temple Aaron

By Jerry Klinger TRINIDAD, Colorado — Temple Aaron in this city celebrated its 130th birthday, Big Time on the weekend of June 21-23. The Temple is 200 miles from Denver, 200 miles from Albuquerque, 200 miles from nearly everything sustainably Jewish. Its last full-time rabbi died 103 years ago.  Yet, the town enduringly refuses to

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Holocaust, detention centers, and Ocasio- Cortez

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The dentist in the television series Seinfeld, Tim Whatley, D.D.S., converted to Judaism in order to tell Jewish jokes, so perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Jewish roots to exploit Jewish suffering – and in the process created a sideshow that diverted attention from the suffering of migrants held in

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Jewish History, USA

Douglass would have disagreed with Kaepernick

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past week, the American flag became a focal point as we celebrated the Fourth of July. The Wall Street Journal reported how NIKE was forced to recall a shoe that featured the “Betsy Ross” flag on the heel. Colin Kaepernick who signed a multi-million-dollar sponsorship

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Sports & Competitions, USA

Comparing Holocaust and slavery reparations

By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — During the Holocaust, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS (the Dutch national railway company), on behalf of the Nazi occupiers, operated the trains that transported more than 100,000 Dutch Jews, first to “transit camps” and then to the Dutch border. There, the Dutch Jews were transferred to

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA

30- year- old Holocaust research still relevant today

The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors by Anton Gill, Grafton Books, 1988. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Although published thirty years ago, this book is at least as relevant today as it was when it first appeared. As the survivors of concentration camps grow old and die it is

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Tracking down a memory in Victoria, B.C.

By Donald H. Harrison VICTORIA, British Columbia – Thanks to the U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886, M.V. Star Princess made a required stop in this Canadian provincial capital, providing a brief opportunity for my wife Nancy and me to hunt down a honeymoon memory. That 133-year-old protectionist piece of legislation banned foreign flagged

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food, USA

The 527 -year- old pact between Jews and Basques

.…and won’t you please release us from our commitment of 1492 to preserve the Jewish cemetery.  The city wishes to build on those grounds, which today is encircled by our growth…’ Restpectfully,  The Vitoria City Council (January 1952) (paraphrased) At Vitoria by Marcia Sue Riman Selz, Ph.D. Archway Publishing, 2016 Reviewed by Irvin H. Jacobs,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish History