Published by ANI News Washington DC [US], February 20 (ANI): The United States has proposed a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas and warning against an Israeli ground incursion into Rafah, CNN reported. Notably, Israel is planning to carry out a ground operation in Rafah, where […]
Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch There was a moment during a recent meeting between the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board and a high-ranking Israeli diplomat that provided some jolting clarity to the global debate over the war in Gaza. We noted during the discussion that, as a board, we have consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself.
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Published by Mirror By Mataeo Smith The grandmother of the boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch earlier this month has lost a portion of his frontal lobe while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Walli Carranza made a Facebook post three days after the shooting, saying her seven-year-old grandson
The San Diego County Bar Foundation has notified Mary Lundberg that her late husband, former California Assemblyman Howard Wayne (D-San Diego) will be memorialized with a permanent plaque bearing his likeness in the Hall of Justice of the San Diego Superior Court. [SDJW staff]
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I will be hosting the program, and my special guest will be Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, who was Theodore Bikel’s wife during the last years of his life and founder and director of the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project. The songs were selected to illustrate Bikel’s vast range and the large number of his recordings in our Astor Judaica Library. [Eileen Wingard]
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He learned from the FBI that those threats against him were because he was “too close to the Jews.” What was Governor Barnes’s connection to Jews that incurred the wrath of some Georgia racists? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Meyer helped to found Barnard College for women in 1889 across the street from Columbia. Barnard became one of the Seven Sisters of women’s colleges in America. Meyer became an associate editor of Broadway Magazine and also edited Women’s Work in America. She also authored such works as Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901); The Dominant Sex (1911); The Dreamer: A Play in Three Acts (1912); Black Souls (1932) which dealt with lynchings in the South; Barnard Beginnings (1935) and It’s Been Fun: An Autobiography. (1951) –SDJW staff
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Published by Mirror By Imy Brighty-Potts Masked neo-Nazis have been captured in shocking footage marching through traditionally black neighbourhoods yesterday before raising their swastika flags at the State capitol building. Shock spread across the city of Nashville, Tennessee, as dozens of uniformed extremists descended, performing Hitler salutes as they marched down Nashville’s ‘Honky Tonk Highway’.
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Published by ANI News Washington, DC [US], February 18 (ANI): The United States on Saturday warned of exercising its veto power at the UN Security Council against a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, CNN reported. According to the report, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the
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Published by DPA International Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the Israeli authorities to allow the population crammed into the south of the Gaza Strip to return to their homes further north, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. At the annual gathering of top political and defence officials in southern
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Recent court decisions have fined Donald Trump nearly half a billion dollars. To raise this much cash, Trump is selling personal possessions and starting new businesses. Here’s some of them … (Laurie Baron, Ph.D)
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In 1975, Forman had his first big hit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, about life in a psychiatric ward, which won him an Oscar as best director. In 1979, he directed Hair, based on the Broadway musical but it did not do well financially. In 1981, he directed Ragtime, based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, and in 1985, he won another Academy Award for directing Amadeus, about the life of Mozart. [SDJW staff]
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Every synagogue has its own personality. Farber said that Temple Etz Rimon’s is that “it is very, very friendly. Warm. You come into the building and you are greeted. You are welcomed at the oneg. They grab you; they love you. People will say, ‘Oh my God, you are so friendly!’ We are. There is no snobbishness in the group. It’s really a nice congregation. Unfortunately, it is getting smaller and smaller.” [Donald H. Harrison]
Beth Sirull completes her tenure as CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego on March 15, when she will be succeeded by Jeremy Pearl, who currently is the foundation’s chief financial officer. [SDJW Staff]
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