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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Chaim Potok

In 1967 Potok published The Chosen, and in 1969 a sequel The Promise, which helped delineate differences between Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.  The Chosen was made into a film in 1981.  In the interim,  the Potoks moved to Jerusalem in 1970, returning to the states in 1977.  Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev was published in 1972. [SDJW staff]

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Tlaib endorses protest vote against Biden in Michigan

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is endorsing the campaign urging Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the Feb. 27 presidential primary in protest of President Joe Biden’s policy in Gaza. In a video posted to social media Saturday, Tlaib said it’s important to not just march against the “genocide”

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StandWithUs Takes Middlebury College to Court Alleging a Pattern of Antisemitism

“Middlebury College has failed egregiously to provide adequate protection for Jewish students seeking to remedy persistent antisemitic bigotry on campus,” said Yael Lerman, Director of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice. “Middlebury administrators disregarded student allegations, attempted to silence them, neglected to enforce its own rules, and at times were complicit in discriminating against Jewish students. In doing so, the College has violated its obligations under Title VI and must be held accountable.” [Press Release]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Barbara Myerhoff

Following advice to “study your own,” Myerhoff began fieldwork on the elderly Jews at the Israel Levin Center in Venice, California, resulting in a 1977 Oscar-winning short documentary film, Number Our Days, and in 1979 a book of the same title. [SDJW staff]

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Jackie Gmach Utilizes the Arts to Teach Lessons of the Holocaust and the Tree of Life Synagogue

That drawing inspired Gmach to develop “We Are The Tree of Life,” a project focusing on Holocaust education utilizing the arts to promote a message of hope and survival. Literature, music, dance, poetry and drawings created by prisoners in the concentration camps and ghettos during World War II show that beauty can survive, even when experiencing unspeakable horrors. [Eileen Wingard]

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World leaders descend on Munich for annual security conference

Published by DPA International UN Secretary General António Guterres is to formally open the 60th Munich Security Conference on Friday as some 50 world leaders are expected to attend this year’s event. The main topics on the security conference’s agenda are the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. US Vice President Kamala Harris

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Supervisor Lawson-Remer Calls for the Suspension of the County Human Relations Commission

County of San Diego Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer said Thursday the Human Relations Commission should suspend its meetings and activities until the systemic issues that have plagued the volunteer commission since its reinstatement in 2020 are thoroughly addressed.  {Press Release]

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Murphy speaks out about protest at N.J. governor’s mansion that made him ‘white hot mad’

Published by NJ.com After becoming angered when protesters opposed to Israel’s offensive in Gaza confronted him Monday night during an event at the governor’s mansion, Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday in his first public comments on the incident that people have “a right to protest,” but this wasn’t the time or place for it. Murphy

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Detroit-area terror suspect Yousef Ramadan jailed amid bomb, Islamic State concerns

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — An ex-con from Ypsilanti at the center of an FBI counterterrorism investigation in 2017 risks being sent back to federal prison after prosecutors accused him of buying dangerous weapons while under court supervision and downloading Islamic State manuals for making bombs, explosives and poisons. Prosecutors and court records

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Speaker Mike Johnson slammed for inviting pastor who trashed Jews to give prayer in House

Published by Raw Story A letter sent to Speaker Mike Johnson and House Chaplain Margaret Kibben blasted them for welcoming a pastor to the chamber who has a documented history of hate and antisemitism, posted Daily Beast reporter Roger Sollenberger. According to the letter, signed by more than two dozen Democrats, Pastor Jack Hibbs promoted

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Harvey Weinstein asks top NY appeals court to overturn rape conviction, grant new trial in another

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein asked New York’s highest state court on Wednesday to overturn one of the disgraced film producer’s rape convictions, and give him a new trial in another. “Our client did not get a fair trial,” defense lawyer Arthur Aidala told the Court of

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