By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO –Although Rep. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t understand it, most Jews do understand how inappropriate it is to compare our Southern border to a concentration camp. An editorial in Wednesday’s L.A.Times, however, supports Cortez’s allegation and does it in the name of the Jewish community. The writer identifies himself as a Jew to
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Donald H. Harrison’s book Schlepping and Schmoozing through San Diego County, Vol. 1 is enjoyable, really fun to read, as one can tell by the book’s title. He has been a journalist since 1962 and is an excellent writer. His articles are not only enjoyable, sometimes witty,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — In Pine Bush, New York, a school district just 90 miles from New York City, students were subjected to Hitler salutes, Holocaust jokes, and swastikas for many years. In one horrific incident, a girl was shoved to the ground and money was stuffed in her mouth. Complaints to the
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The recent Arrow 3 missile test in Alaska, announced on Sunday, was nearly taken out by a rogue. Not a rogue missile, mind you, but a rogue amendment to the to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Earlier this month, Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-FL) proposed the following language: “None of
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Most of the twenty-or-so political parties in Israel wouldn’t pass the post in elections. To have a chance of at least their leaders to get elected, they come together in joint lists. The reason why they’re separate to start with seems to have more to do with ego than with
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A friend gave me James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, and it strikes me as worthy of a review. Comey was a bureaucrat. A professional in the field of law, who worked his way from Assistant US Attorney, through positions as lawyer in the private sector,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Ira Sharkansky, USA(c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. —Jerusalem Post editor Yaakov Katz probably had no way of knowing that this would be a perfect time to release his briskly-selling Shadow Strike—Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power (St. Martin’s Press). Or did he? The world’s attention is once again and inevitably riveted to the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USABy Oliver B. Pollak ALBANY, California — Several years ago I attended the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Two years ago I attended the Berlin and Beyond German Film Festival in San Francisco. This year we attended the 39th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. The crowd was lined up around the block to
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Middle East, Oliver Pollak, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Dow Mamur JERUSALEM — Israel is “blessed” with some twenty political parties each aspiring to be represented in the Knesset. But the law that requires a party to have a minimum number of votes in elections in order to qualify would exclude many of them. That’s why before each election the small parties,
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Middle EastBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Their messages were aimed at different people, but both screeds were just as historically shameful. In a 10-day period, our president and a congresswoman from Detroit uttered some of the most disgraceful words ever to emanate from Washington. Even Republican leaders pounced on President Trump for proclaiming in
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By Sofia Gardenswartz Times of San Diego LA MESA, California –I walked into an office that looked just like the three others I had visited that morning in May: American flag, stock-photo landscapes hanging on the walls, inbox overflowing with papers, and busy staffers. I was at the Capitol in Sacramento for the National Council
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International, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I was ready to leave my parent’s home in Beverly Hills to test myself as an independent, 22-year-old woman. My friend Myra Cohn told me about a college friend of hers in New York looking for a roommate; this provided an opportunity to lessen my parents’ worries
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Natasha Josefowitz, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Just a week after writing critically about an article by a well-known journalist in an influential publication, I again feel the necessity to respond to the utter nonsense that these prominent “experts” espouse to their large readerships. Both Dana Milbank and Peter Beinart are Jewish. What “liberal” attitudes
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — Travel broadens the mind, they say. However, one of the less delightful aspects of travel is making sure you haven’t forgotten anything. I’m not talking only about essentials such as passport, documents, etc., but rather about the myriad other objects you have to have about your person to cover
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Travel and Food