Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will meet with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month, abandoning efforts to ostracize the kingdom’s de facto leader over the horrific murder of a dissident. The White House ended weeks of speculation Tuesday, announcing that Biden will travel to Israel, the Palestinian […]
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Middle East, USA
No sooner than Cleator took over the office as acting mayor, he broke the news to me that Queen Elizabeth II of England would be visiting San Diego, and that I, as communications director, would be in charge of the city’s press arrangements for the traveling and local media. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
We marched to mount an insurrection.
Well, you know,
We just couldn’t let Trump lose.
We tried to stop a rigged election.
Well, you know,
That’s what we heard on Fox News. … (Laurie Baron)
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The U.S. diplomatic mission to the Palestinians in Jerusalem said on Thursday that it had been redesignated and will report directly to Washington “on substantive matters”, signalling an upgrade in ties ahead of a planned visit by President Joe Biden. The former “Palestinian Affairs Unit” (PAU) was
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Middle East, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Michelle Zangari opened a can devoid of any live worms when she warned that Orthodox Jews could be poised to seize control of Rockville Centre on Long Island, which was part of an eight-minute rant that drew condemnations against antisemitism from New York’s governor, senior senator and scores of
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Jerry Klinger It is called by some the “legend of the Little Dunkirk.” It was no legend. There are legends about the Jews in Denmark after the Nazi occupation of the country in April 1940. One popular legend was when the Nazis ordered all Danish Jews to wear the Yellow Star of David Armband,
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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English Romantic artist who lifted landscape and seascape painting to new and enthralling heights will never cease to amaze, inspire and make us question what we thought we knew about painting, about what colored pigment on canvas can do. “Turner’s Modern World” at
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When Robin Williams was in Germany, he was asked by an interviewer, “Why do you think we have not so much comedy in Germany?” Williams pithily replied, “Maybe because you killed the funny people.” The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in cooperation
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Eric George Tauber, Holocaust, International, Opinion, USA
Violinist Eileen Wingard was never the star of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Such billings belong to conductors like Zoltan Rozsnyai, Peter Eros, David Atherton, Yoav Talmi, and Jung-Ho Pak, all of whom she played under during a career stretching from 1967 through 2004. Or perhaps the stars are donors like Irwin and Joan Jacobs, who in 2002 gave the San Diego Symphony an amazing gift of $120 million, the largest ever given to an orchestra in America. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
(JNS) Representatives from the Weizmann Institute’s Physics Faculty in Rehovot joined more than 100 astronomers worldwide in a recent NASA planetary defense exercise. As part of the exercise, David Polishook, a member of the faculty and also director of Weizmann’s observatory, deleted a previously detected “near-Earth object” asteroid from the asteroid database, to see if
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — How does a Jewish British immigrant to Israel come to be the composer of music being played in honor of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II? Loretta Kay Feld was born in London and trained in music composition and drama at The Royal College and Guildhall School
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Toby Klein Greenwald, USA
By Doron Krakow Spring is a time of renewal. Longer, warmer days. Blooming trees and gardens. It is a season of beginnings—of new life. A season of weddings and graduations, major milestones in the lives of individuals and families. A season in which we come together, in settings both large and small, to mark these
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Doron Krakow, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Opinion, San Diego County, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — After Adam Lanza murdered 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., Democrats in 2013 represented 184 million Americans in the Senate and Republicans represented 118 million, according to a guest on a news program this past week. Yet the Republicans stopped dead legislation to
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Sam Ben-Meir Charles Ray (b. 1953) — undoubtedly one of the most conceptually and visually breathtaking sculptors alive today — is enjoying something of cultural moment at present, with four exhibitions on two continents, including “Charles Ray: Figure Ground” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Throughout his career, Ray has been engaged in
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA