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Israeli diplomat: Truth, peace under Palestinian attack

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Eitan Weiss, deputy chief of mission for the Israel Consulate General in Los Angeles, said during a lunch-time interview here on Thursday  that Israel’s Palestinian opponents neither want peace nor have any regard for the truth. Those pushing BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) against Israel “have no problems […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

‘Intelligent Lives’ tracks 3 adults with mental disabilities

Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib, scheduled for release September 21. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib about the high potential of people with mental disabilities, is scheduled for New York City release Sept. 21 and around the country thereafter.  Narrated by Chris Cooper, whose son

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

High marks for Spike Lee film probing Klan

By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee ‘s recently released film, covers  the early years  of the Black Power Movement in the 1970s , and  most importantly exposes  the Klu KLux Klan’s  insidious  agenda  of racism,  and Anti-Semitism in America. BlacKkKlansman is  based  on the life of  Ron Stallworth who served as 

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 17, 2018 (4 items)

Terrorist victim Ari Fuld mourned The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America had expressed its great sadness over the death of Ari Fuld zk”l, a U.S.-Israeli citizen who was killed over the weekend in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist. Fuld, 45, was attacked Sunday morning by a terrorist wielding a knife outside a shopping

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 14, 2018 (3 items)

World Jewish Congress condemns Neo-Nazi attack on Jewish restaurant The World Jewish Congress vehemently condemns the reprehensible antisemitic attack that took place recently on the sidelines of a neo-Nazi protest in the east German city of Chemnitz, in which masked assailants hurled rocks and bottles at a Jewish restaurant, injuring one person. “It is inconceivable

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Netanyahu alienates Jews around the world

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “The State of Israel against the Jews” is the provocative title of an article in Friday’s Ha’aretz Magazine by Eva Illuz, professor of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and author of many important books and articles on current affairs. She bases her contention on the highly publicized encounters

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 12, 2018 (4 items)

Anne Frank Center releases open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg “We understand it’s not easy keeping 2 billion members happy, much less shouldering the weight for all the nasty things they might say to one another. We genuinely appreciate all the good social media can accomplish: the personal connections, the charity drives, the human compassion,

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

AJWS endorses global campaign to save the forests

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Nine of the world’s leading philanthropic foundations announced their intent to commit at least $459 million through 2022 to the protection, restoration and expansion of forests and lands worldwide and the recognition of indigenous peoples’ and traditional communities’ collective land rights and resource management. These are powerful and under-appreciated climate solutions and

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International, Middle East, The World We Share, USA

Humoring the headlines: September 11, 2018

Enhanced Interrogations to Identify Anonymous By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — President Trump has decided that polygraphing all the associates he suspects of writing the anonymous OpEd in the failing New York Times will not not yield the identity of the treasonous culprit.  He has appointed Dick Cheney to serve as the Presidential Grand Inquisitor

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA