By Melanie Ruth Gorelick and Tammy Gilden NEW YORK — Last week, we traveled to both San Diego and Tijuana to learn firsthand about our nation’s immigration crisis as part of a Jewish Leadership Border Mission, led by HIAS and ADL. Participants on the mission met with the Mexican Consul General, immigration lawyers and advocates, […]
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International, Travel and Food, USAAdages for the Trump Era By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything for two days until you are pressured to say something positive you don’t really mean. * A snitch in time almost ought to be outlawed. * Late to bed, early to rise makes
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — This has not been a good year for the Cohen name, or for those who bear it. I’ve tried not to dwell on that reality, but there are constant, stark reminders — in newspapers and on TV. And, just the other day, a longtime dear friend named Jerry brought
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
“One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” Jin Kwon By Eva Trieger MAMARONECK, New York — Mamaroneck Library is
Humor, or should we say levi-tea, in pottery Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
Congressional Gold Medal honors memory of Anwar Sadat’s peace-making with Israel History was made in the US Senate when it unanimously passed a bill to honor former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the Congressional Gold Medal. S.266 is a bill, co-sponsored by 71 Senators, is a bipartisan legislation that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of our big mysteries is Donald Trump. Latest news is a report by his former lawyer that Trump ordered payment of silence money to two babes during the 2016 campaign. And assertions that he fathered a child with a cleaning women at his New York residence. For us, hints
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAUpdated August 27, 2018 A variety of Jewish groups issued statements mourning the death of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), who was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 2008 against then Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Texts of their statements follow. American Jewish Committee: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Senator John McCain.
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International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — American Jews are wondering what’s happened to Israel and why is it straying so far from its original principles, especially as evinced by the recently-passed Nation-State Law of the Jewish People. I wondered whether to write about this law and whether Jews in America even knew about it.
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Bruce F. Lowitt ZOLFO SPRINGS, Florida – There’s a bit of the Middle East in the middle of Florida, where pomegranates – one of the seven fruits named in Deuteronomy as representing the bounty of Israel – grow in abundance. It’s called Green Sea Farms, 31 acres, six devoted to 130 varieties of pomegranates,
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Bruce F. Lowitt, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA
A Politically Incorrect Feminist by Phyllis Chesler; St. Martin’s Press; © 2018; ISBN 9781250-094421; 304 pages including acknowledgments. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Possibly before, but especially after publication of Women and Madness, which exposed the practice of falsely committing women to insane asylums and the abuse of women within those institutions, author
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
Jewish couples urged to get tested for Tay-Sachs JScreen (jscreen.org), a not-for-profit at home education and genetic carrier screening program, today highlighted September’s Tay-Sachs Awareness Month, encouraging people to get tested for genetic diseases so they can make informed decisions about family planning. JScreen’s expanded screening panel tests for more than 200 diseases, a significant development
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Two members of San Diego’s congressional delegation had very different kinds of experiences on Tuesday, August 21, with America’s justice system. Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) was vindicated by a federal appeals court which dismissed a suit that had been brought against her by Chris Sevier who claimed
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Imagine for a moment that, reluctantly, President Trump has listened to the advice of daughter Ivanka and agreed to meet with an anger management specialist. He enters the office of the specialist, Dr. Mensch, who invites him to take a seat, and starts right in: “People say you’re
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Alleged Iranian spies were photographing Chabad and Hillel in Chicago U.S. Representative Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the following statement on Tuesday regarding the arrest of Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani: “Only days ago, two men were arrested in the United States on charges of acting on behalf of the Iranian regime to conduct surveillance and
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA