By 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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International, Middle East, USA
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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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Singer, president and executive vice president respectively of the World Jewish Congress, told a European Parliament committee on Thursday “to pick after Jews or go after Jews is not just wrong — it is dangerous for all Europeans. … Anti-Semitism eventually consumes everyone
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Growing up in postwar London I never heard the term ‘Second Generation,’ nor was I aware of it until many years later. In Israel at some point in the 1960s or 1970s there was a discussion, possibly even an argument, as to whether people who had fled Europe before,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History
Story by Beth Sarafraz; Photos courtesy of the Lieber family BROOKLYN, New York — When Lola Lieber’s husband, Mechel, was arrested by the Nazis during the Holocaust, she did the unthinkable. Posing as a Gentile, she walked into the Gestapo headquarters and asked to speak to whoever was in charge. She told the receptionist that
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International, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.” President Trump responded that Schiff
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By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — CODEX, the Latin word associated with books and paper, meets every two years in Craneway Pavilion, which was the old 1931 Ford Plant in Richmond and the center of war production for the Kaiser Shipyards. It is next to the National Park Service Rosie the Riveter WWII Homefront
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This following column, with a format that is easier to read in a hurry, replaces the Editor’s E-Mail Box. It allows for recognition of members of our community in the diverse roles they play. If you, or a member of the Jewish community whom you know recently did
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USAThe Uncensored State of the Union Address By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−For the most part, President Trump read off the teleprompter yesterday, but there were zingers he wanted to add to parts of the State of the Union Speech that his advisors told him to omit. Here they are. * “If there is going to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully. Does it have fins? Does it have scales? If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
U.S. Senate adopts pro-Israel, anti-BDS bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said Tuesday that it “applauds the U.S. Senate for adopting the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act (S.1), which contains critical pro-Israel provisions. These provisions—contained in one of the first major bipartisan bills adopted by the Senate this year—pledge security assistance
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Middle East, USA