By Ken Stone and Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Allen Bellman worked for the late, great Stan Lee in the Golden Age of comic books — the 1940s and 1950s. He helped draw Captain America. Bellman created a strip of his own — “Let’s Play Detective.” He worked for Marvel Comics […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Ken Stone, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, seems to equate homophobia with the plight of the Palestinians. His experiences as a homosexual, he suggested, helped him empathize with the “human rights” violations suffered by the Palestinians. Pocan joined Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on Feb. 27 during the Washington, D.C.,
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — The political tension between Kosovo and Serbia is creating a perfect environment wherein Turkey and Russia can lure the two countries into their respective spheres of influence. High-ranking US and EU envoys are trying to resolve the long-standing dispute, urging Serbia and Kosovo to normalize relations
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Alon Ben-Meir, International
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Eva Schloss, 89, who has a powerful Holocaust survival story to tell about herself, knows that the world also hungers for details about her posthumous step-sister Anne Frank, the famous young girl diarist, whom she had known in Amsterdam before their respective families had gone into hiding from
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
Berrie and Seidle named to Leichtag Foundation board of directors Philanthropist Angelica Berrie, president of the Russell Berrie Foundation and a co-chair of the Jewish Funders Network, and Charlene Seidle, executive vice president of the Leichtag Foundation, have both been named to the board of directors of the Leichtag Foundation, it was announced by Jim
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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –An acquaintance connected with the UK’s UIJA (United Israel Jewish Appeal) suggested that I write an article about the Western Galilee College for the AJR Journal (Association of Jewish Refugees), for which I write a monthly column entitled ‘Letter from Israel.’ The college, situated just outside the ancient city
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — While the political situation for asylum seekers who come to the United States’ southern border seemingly changes day by day, Mimi Pollack, 65, and Paula Sassi, 71, are among the few constants. Twice a week since last July, the two women have driven
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Samuel J. Levine compares many Jewish laws with American laws that address the same issues in two 2018 volumes of Jewish Law and American Law.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, USA
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel –There is an expression that people can be identified by the company they keep. Rashida Tlaib was elected to the House of Representatives in a district with a constituency whose culture and issues she shares and now projects within the United States Congress. She celebrated her arrival into the American
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA
By Beth Kieffer Leonard Jewish Democratic Council of America MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans are no strangers to political trailblazing; however, we are also known for honesty and kindness. Representative Ilhan Omar is certainly a trailblazer, yet her recent anti-Semitic tweets and statements are deeply offensive. They have caused consternation among Minnesota voters, including myself, not
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Middle East, USABy Bernie Sanders WASHINGTON, D.C. — As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from – because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in a three-and-a-half room rent-controlled apartment. My father was a paint salesman
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, Australia, from a nautical standpoint, was approximately 3,500 miles closer to California than New York was. Goods brought by ship from the American East Coast had to travel a longer route, all the way down the eastern coast of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced its first-ever mission to Mexico, May 22-27, in order to gain a more thorough perspective about Jewish life in the United States’ neighboring country. As the American Jewish community continues to grapple with several challenges related to Jewish identity, the inaugural mission to Mexico
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We now have the indictments, subject to hearings, on three cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On one, involving gifts amounting to nearly a half million shekels, the indictment will be for breach of trust. On another, involving discussions with the publisher of Yedioth Aharonoth, the indictment is fraud and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East