By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Obviously, Israelis will have a special interest in the outcome of the upcoming elections, and I’m sure they know more about the issues than I do. For people outside Israel, the election campaign seems complex and confusing. Yet I’m certain that the outcome is extremely relevant also for Jews […]
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One hundred seven years ago today, on February 14, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation making Arizona the 48th State of the Union. The Republican president may have thought that his signature culminated a long fight with Progressive Democrats in Arizona over the question of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families. According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Politically speaking, do you consider yourself a liberal, a progressive, a conservative, a libertarian, left wing, right wing, none of the above? Regardless, are you a supporter of Israel? If so, do you support or “follow” one organization or another that is involved with Israel, whether it be
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Nita Lowey and Richard Shelby, chairs respectively of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, along with members of their committees, hammered out a tentative deal to avoid a second government shut down in the face of President Trump’s demand for a wall at the Mexican border. According to a
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By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The New York Times reported on February 7, 2019 about a court decision in which the Austrian government has to pay a property owner in Braunau, a town of about 16,000 people in upper Austria, $1.7 million dollars for undervaluing the apartment building in which Hitler was born
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalBy Donald H. Harrison THE OMAR AFFAIR– Responding to a comment by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that Members of Congress support Israel because “It’s all about the Benjamins,” that is $100 bills, and that AIPAC pays the members to vote for Israel, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called for
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Despite a fierce attack from Bibi, Gideon Sa’ar succeeded in getting to #5 on the Knesset list of Likud. Above him are Netanyahu, Yuli Edelstein, Yitzhak Katz, and Gilad Erdan. Bibi responded with a comment that Sa’ar couldn’t expect to be a senior minister in his next government. Beneath Bibi’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently beaten back cancer, but at age 85, she’s the oldest Justice on the Supreme Court. Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru reports that just in case she leaves the court, President Trump has a short list of seven candidates from which to pick her replacement.
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The week opened with a loose alliance formed between AOC, as the Bronx/Queens congresswoman is known, and Britain’s Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. By Friday, a predictable rumor emerged that a Jewish Labour member of Parliament might form a breakaway party. Could it happen here? I have long
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), says many Americans mistakenly believe that Polish people are anti-Semitic. In fact, she says, Polish people have an obsession with Judaism that leads some to be anti-Semitic and others to be just the
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By Oliver B. Pollak OAKLAND, California – The 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair met at the Marriott City Center in Oakland. About 160 booksellers from around the world had brought their high priced prizes; a 1632 Shakespeare volume for $450,000, a Gutenberg Bible leaf (ca 1455), $98,000, Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks $120,000, and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – When people ask me what I do in retirement I like to say I’m a “Jewish climate activist of the literary kind.” Here’s why: I’m Jewish. I’m 70. I’m not a novelist, and I’m not writing any books about climate change. But since 2006, I’ve been working 24/7,
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International, The World We ShareBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – As chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York has much to say about what new projects the government will be granted permission to finance. As for President Trump’s demand for over $5 billion for a border wall, or a compromise proposal for
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