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Police increase patrols following attack on rabbi

October 13, 2020

Other items in this column include: *Seacrest Village has newly reconfigured kosher kitchen *Jewish organizational news *In memoriam By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Police Department considers last Saturday’s attack on Rabbi Yonatan Halevy to be a “high priority incident” and as a result will increase patrols in the University City […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

SDJW urges ‘Yes’ votes on Props 17, 18

October 13, 2020

Expanding the voter rolls By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Voter rolls would be expanded if the electorate approves Proposition 17 to reinstate prisoners who have completed their prison terms, and Proposition 18 to permit primary election voting by 17-year-olds who will turn 18 before the November general election. Opponents of Proposition 17 say

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Crypto Jews: Finding and Embracing their Roots

October 12, 2020

By Mimi Pollack L’Chaim San Diego Magazine SAN DIEGO — My late fiancé, an 8th generation New Mexican, used to tell me about the secret or crypto Jews of New Mexico. He was convinced that although he was raised Catholic, some of his ancestors were “Conversos” or secret Jews who came to New Mexico when

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Jewish History, Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

Stop Burning Masks: Choose Life Over Death

October 12, 2020

By Rabbi Benjamin Herman MIAMI, Florida — In seeing footage of members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn publicly burning masks has filled me with outrage and disgust. I recognize that this came in reaction to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s increasing restrictions largely affecting Orthodox Jewish communities where COVID is spreading like wildfire. Yet I

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA

Phil Johnson Humanizes Teddy Roosevelt

October 12, 2020

“They want me to sit down and shut my mouth. But I never did do that very well.” -quote attributed to Teddy Roosevelt By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When I interviewed Phil Johnson about his solo show in San Diego, A Jewish Joke, he mentioned that he had another project in

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editorial: Reject Discriminatory Prop. 16

October 12, 2020

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Depending on how you look at it, it has been the good fortune or the misfortune of Jews to reach measurable levels of success in numbers that are disproportionate to our percentage within the overall population. A tiny fraction of the American population, our people have a strong

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Facebook to ban Holocaust denial

October 12, 2020

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League is relieved by Facebook’s announcement that it was updating its hate speech policy to prohibit any content “that denies or distorts the Holocaust.” This comes after nearly a decade of ADL advocating for such changes and just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, where users have been

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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, USA

Why Do They Hate Us?

October 12, 2020

By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg EDISON, New Jersey — I begin with a question that Jews have been asking for millennia. Why do they hate us? This year we saw a surprising rise in anti-Semitic attacks in America—attacks that never happened before on American soil. Rav Moshe Feinstein—the prime decisor of Jewish Law of the

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Bernhard H. Rosenberg-Rabbi, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA

‘Mixed Marriage,’ a one-act play

October 11, 2020

By Janet S. Tiger SAN DIEGO — Written after the contentious election in 2016, my one-act play Mixed Marriage was a winner in the 4th Annual SDC JCC Five Minute Shorts and has even more relevance today. It all started when I heard of friends – Jewish – where the husband and wife had voted for

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

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SDJW Urges a Yes Vote on Prop. 15

October 11, 2020

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — California Proposition 15 would increase taxes on commercial and industrial properties worth more than $3 million by changing the method by which their tax liabilities are calculated. Under current California law, property is assessed on the basis of what the owner paid for it, and that value is

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Reliving Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg

October 10, 2020

By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — I like to ask people, “What is the greatest or most exciting thing that happened in your life?” Some of the answers I received were startling and unexpected. I once asked a woman barber cutting my hair this question. In her reply she recalled a memorable event in her

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Travel and Food, USA

Bonds: Yes on Calif. Prop 14, S.D. Prop. A

October 10, 2020

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bond issues are the first measures on both the State of California ballot and on the City of San Diego ballot, asking respectively for the right to borrow $5.5 billion to finance stem cell research (Prop. 14) and up to $900 million to provide affordable housing (Prop. A). {See

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA

Tik Tok and the spread of antisemitism

October 9, 2020

By Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel –Online antisemitism is nothing new but now it seems to be widely targeting our vulnerable youth more than ever before. Hidden under false identities, haters freely reveal prejudice, bigotry, and antisemitic views across virtually all the unruled space of social media. Teenagers who identify as Jewish complain of

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Lifestyles, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Anti-Asian hate rhetoric spikes on Internet

October 9, 2020

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2. The new study of Twitter conversations

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International, USA

Police increase patrols following attack on rabbi

SDJW urges ‘Yes’ votes on Props 17, 18

Crypto Jews: Finding and Embracing their Roots

Stop Burning Masks: Choose Life Over Death

Phil Johnson Humanizes Teddy Roosevelt

Editorial: Reject Discriminatory Prop. 16

Facebook to ban Holocaust denial

Why Do They Hate Us?

‘Mixed Marriage,’ a one-act play

SDJW Urges a Yes Vote on Prop. 15

Reliving Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg

Bonds: Yes on Calif. Prop 14, S.D. Prop. A

Tik Tok and the spread of antisemitism

Anti-Asian hate rhetoric spikes on Internet

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