Students injected Holocaust imagery into drinking contest A student pours beer into a cup before a game of “Holocaust Pong.” Photo courtesy Jamaica Ponder The Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks and the Board of Rabbis of Princeton Mercer Bucks issued a joint statement condemning an underage drinking game of beer pong that took an […]
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USAMIAMI — A Hollywood, Fla., man accused of trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue stood in Miami federal court on Monday and gave the judge two names — one real, the other an alias. “My name is James Medina, also known as ‘James Muhammad,’” Medina told Magistrate Judge William Turnoff. James G. Medina,
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In response to numerous anti-LGBT laws being introduced, and in many cases passed, at the state-level, the leadership of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the North American Federation of Temple Youth issued the following statement: “As leaders
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori SAN DIEGO – Israel’s consul general for New York, Ido Aharoni, told a San Diego gathering of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on Sunday, May 1, that arguing with the supporters of BDS is a sterile exercise, not likely to influence the 95 percent of the
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Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Campaigning does not bring out the best. There is much said and written by candidates, their supporters, opponents, and commentators. Who knows what is important, crucial, and trivial, when all fabricate, dissemble, obfuscate, temporize, and lie, and much of what the victors actually do will depend on details that develop
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“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” This iconic Cool Hand Luke quote seems to be the rallying cry of the Republican National Committee as it attempts to whip the disparate caucuses of the Republican party into accepting the inevitability of Donald Trump’s nomination as the party’s presidential candidate. Some of the most powerful
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“They said I’d make a good lampshade,” says Julia Ioffe. Ioffe is a journalist, who happens to be Jewish, and who happened to write a profile of Donald Trump’s wide, Melania, for GQ. She has since been barraged with insults and threats, many of them violent, and many of them anti-Semitic. “Basically,” says Ioffe, “I
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International, USAHome to the country’s biggest economy and largest population, California in most years is more or less irrelevant in one arena: presidential elections. But not this year—in 2016, normally apathetic Californians are waking up to the fact that despite the state’s late primary in early June, they actually matter in this presidential contest, which is
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USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When SDSU President Elliot Hirshman was held captive Wednesday in a car for approximately two hours by angry students, that potentially was a matter of false imprisonment and violation of his civil rights that demand investigation by state and federal prosecutors. At the same time, flyers naming individual
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Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s looking more and more like Hillary vs Donald. Neither of them has the nomination sewed up. Guesses are the Donald won’t have the required majority when he gets to the convention. The announcement by Cruz and Kasich that they would work together to frustrate Trump began to unravel after
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement abut the confirmation of Roberta S. Jacobson, who is Jewish, to be U.S. Ambassador to Mexico: I am pleased the U.S. Senate has finally confirmed Roberta S. Jacobson, our Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, to be the next
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International, USADespite his abysmal showing on the latest Super Tuesday — he won only in Rhode Island — Bernie Sanders insists that he will keep campaigning through the last contest. But political analysts already are discerning a change in Sanders’ rhetoric consistent with reality. One sign of that recalibration is Sanders’ focus on leveraging his support
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on Thursday, April 28: On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I offer my warmest congratulations to the citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on the 37th anniversary of your nation’s independence this May 1. Brought
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International, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –As I weigh the rhetoric of the U.S. presidential election, I find that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left understand that Americans who grew up on the notion that “the United States is the greatest country in the world” have become
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