By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps the Taliban decided it would be timely to out-do our Supreme Court. It decreed on Saturday that the women of Afghanistan must cover their entire bodies, at least with a garment known as a hijab. A burqa would be better, but it is not required. The Taliban government’s […]
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is the subject of several murals at Chicano Park. Modern genealogists say that she was the daughter of a mother of mixed indigenous and Spanish descent, Mathilde Calderon y Gonzalez, and a German Lutheran father, Guillermo Kahlo. However, Frida herself always insisted that her father, who was an important influence on both her life and her art, was actually Jewish. [Donald H. Harrison]
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The land of Israel is “the most misunderstood country on earth,” according to Israeli actress, producer, author, and activist, Noa Tishby, who was recently named the Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism & the Delegitimization of Israel by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Sunday, August 28, 2022, Tishby will
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The David Labkovski Project (DLP) creates a living bridge from the lessons of the Holocaust to the realities of today’s world. The DLP introduces and preserves the legacy of the Holocaust experience through the artwork of world-renowned artist David Labkovski (1906-1991). His work empowers participants to engage in curated multi-disciplinary
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — For decades, we have heard the Republican battle cry: STOP KILLING INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES! If you kill them before their born, we can’t bury their mothers in medical debt from their stay in the maternity ward. CHA-CHING! $$$$ STOP KILLING INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES! We know it’s expensive to
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Eric George Tauber, Opinion, USA
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) It was in 1896 that Theodor Herzl published his groundbreaking book, The Jewish State, which launched the modern Zionist movement. Though his project was, as he noted in his book, “very old” and indeed rooted in the prayers of Jews for nearly 2,000 years, it would only be 52 years
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By Ron Dermer (JNS) Israel was not established because of the Holocaust. In contrast, it is because of the modern State of Israel that there has not been another mass Jewish genocide, according to former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Speaking on this week’s “Diplomatically Incorrect” podcast with JINSA’s David Makovsky, Dermer
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Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) The unprecedented leak of an initial draft majority opinion by the Supreme Court in the challenge of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy—has caused a firestorm of opinions on both sides of the abortion debate, no less so among Jewish organizations that for
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(JNS) As Israel celebrates 74 years since its independence, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations in a statement on Wednesday. Blinken said the relationship between the United States and Israel is unshakeable, based on shared democratic ideals. “The United States remains steadfast in its commitment to Israel’s security and deeply values our
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Middle East, USA
(JNS) A historic partnership between the University of Arizona, Jewish National Fund-USA and farmers in the Arava Valley, has been renamed as the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, in honor of a $1 million commitment made to the Institute by philanthropists Beth and Mike Kasser. “If you have enough water, then
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he
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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
The “christening” ceremony featured a principal ceremonial address by Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, as well as remarks by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro; Vice Admiral Jeffrey Hughes, deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development; and Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer, commander of the Military Sealift Command. Sponsors of the ship were U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with Milk, and Paula Neira, clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health. Neira shattered a bottle of sparkling wine across the ship’s bow in a time-honored Navy tradition. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Today, April 29, 2022, was a bellringing day for me at the Jacobs Medical Center at UCSD Health Sciences. I completed a 33-day course of radiation in the hope of arresting a meningioma that was growing on top of my brain. On July 1, I will have an MRI to learn how well the treatment worked. [Donald H. Harrison]
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