Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be appointed a U.S. Secretary of State, warned graduating UC San Diego students Saturday to beware when “pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them’” in multi-cultural America. “When pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them,’ the American tapestry unravels […]
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San Diego County, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — It was June, 27, 1976, forty three years ago. The Palestine Liberation Organization and radical left-wing Germans hijacked an Air France flight in Athens, refueled in Libya, and landed at Entebbe airport in Uganda. There, the syphilitic president, Idi Amin,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — One of the Facebook groups I belong to is called ‘Brits Whingeing in Israel’ (motto: ‘Lose some, whinge some’), having split off from ‘Brits Laughing in Israel,’ which in turn split off from ‘Brits Living in Israel.’ The politics behind the various groups and sub-groups is not clear
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) surprised and mollified a restive crowd of environmentalists Saturday when she announced that when she returns to Washington for Tuesday’s congressional session she will “be signing onto the Green New Deal.” Her announcement was greeted with 16 seconds of applause, which might
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USABy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — For years family and friends have been urging me to write my autobiography. It always felt like such a daunting task, so I kept postponing even the idea of it. After a few columns about my early years in Paris and Beverly Hills were published, I was encouraged
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Travel and Food, USABy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK –In Burbank, California, amidst the famed New York Street sets at Warner Bros, filmmakers are shooting a new film entitled “The Latin from Manhattan,” about the wildly vivacious and roller-coaster life of Vanessa Del Rio – the world’s first Latina adult star. The film is set in the late 1970s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –– StandWithUs commends the US Senate for passing unanimously a Resolution Condemning all forms of antisemitism on June 13, 2019. The resolution was announced five days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., during services marking the end of Passover, murdering a 60-year-old woman, maiming the rabbi and
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Jewish History, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San
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San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard ALISO VIEJO, California — The manuscript of Journey to Freedom languished for decades at the bottom of a pile of Dr. Bernard “Barney” Gilmore’s scores. It was not until after UC Irvine Music Faculty Professor Gilmore’s death, that his wife, while organizing his music for the archives at the UC Irvine Library,
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find it in your humanity to support Israel when it is actively committing human rights
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — This is an early and partial (i.e. neither complete nor impartial) attempt to comment on the second election in Israel this year, due next September. The immediate inspiration comes from a cartoon in Ha’aretz that shows the quartet that leads the main opposition Blue and White Party. Three of
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old Roma woman was physically attacked in the middle of the day in Kosovo, after a false accusation spread that the victim had been kidnaping children. Social media provided a platform for hate speeches and misleading information, which often precipitates violence against
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Alon Ben-Meir, InternationalBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While there is little to laugh about when it comes to the subject of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal (Tom Dugan), began the one-man show with a joke. The longer the show went on, the more the actor revealed the character, and perhaps a trace of hubris, of Simon
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Eva Trieger, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast