Nelsan Ellis, the actor best known for his portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s “True Blood,” has died. He was 39. The reported cause was from complications due to heart failure. Ellis burst into popular consciousness in 2008 when he was cast in “True Blood” as Reynolds, a flamboyant and outspoken gay short order cook […]
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastA growing movement is pressing to restore the right of Jews to pray at the sight of the biblical Jewish temples, currently barred by Israel By Andrew Tobin Liberal American Jews are feeling thwarted in their years-long campaign for the right to pray as they wish at the Western Wall. Long frustrated that the plaza
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastArtwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar By Amanda Borschel-Dan Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth
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Jewish History, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump gave a brief history lesson on Poland’s recent invasions during a Warsaw speech Thursday. In a few brief lines, he discussed Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Soviet invasion of Poland. Ultimately, Trump deemed the attack was “tough.” Trump on Hitler and Stalin invading Poland: “That’s trouble. That’s tough.” pic.twitter.com/prE4uOhVnV — Bradd
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By Darren Schwartz SAN DIEGO — Summer camp is perhaps the richest experience for teens to explore his or her sense of Jewish identity. Camp provides an experiential space for youth to experiment with who they are and the type of person they want to become. As a product of both Jewish day camp
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyOfficials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland have criticized a Louisiana congressman who narrated a section of a video from inside one of the concentration camp’s gas chambers. Representative Clay Higgins posted the video Saturday. In it he pays tribute to those murdered in the camp, and says “Man’s inhumanity to man can
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International, Jewish History, USAJewish novelist says his ‘main task’ has been depicting ‘what happened in World War II and the Holocaust’ By Benjamin Kerstein The Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author Herman Wouk has published his latest and what he indicated was likely his last book at the age of 102. Interviewed by “ CBS Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Wouk
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish HistoryInterior minister says conversion bill was designed to prevent efforts to fast-track citizenship, which he claims Israel’s Reform leader supports; Gilad Kariv slams ‘shameful lies’ By Marissa Newman Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leads a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset on July 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Monday attacked Israeli
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe Supreme Court has ruled that making a woman immerse under supervision is an invasion of privacy, so why must they fill out ‘permission slips’ to dip? By Yaakov Schwartz Lea was standing in only a towel when the ritual bath attendant barred the 32-year-old’s way, saying she must fill out a waiver before entering
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastCompiled by Samuel Chessler Fund, Federation Merger OKd By Lou Lieblich, executive director Southwestern Jewish Press, September 11, 1958, Page 2 At consecutive meetings of the Boards of Directors of the Federation of Jewish Agencies and the United Jewish Fund, these two former arms of the San Diego Jewish community were merged into one on Sept.
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Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Sam Ben-Meir ROME, Italy – For international collage artist, Michael Anderson, Jean-Michel Basquiat is the single most significant artist of the last fifty years: “Picasso, Pollack, Basquiat,” he tells me. There is no denying the immense influence of this extraordinary painter, who in a short but meteoric career of seven years produced an astonishing
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-MeirRabbi Rick Jacobs welcomes conversion bill delay, hails ‘unprecedented’ US Jewish opposition to Israeli government decisions on conversion, Western Wall prayer By Amanda Borschel-Dan Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs on Friday welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the controversial conversion bill at the heart of two-pronged flare-up in Israel-Diaspora tensions would be frozen for
A brief history of Jewish worship at Judaism’s holiest place of prayer, where, until it came under Israeli jurisdiction, a mixing of genders was the norm By Amanda Borschel-Dan From the mid-1800s, photographs of Jews praying together at the Western Wall became common on the walls of houses across the Western world. Today, a rich
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastDemocrats Jerrold Nadler and Ted Deutch say they have been swamped with complaints from American Jews By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York. (Courtesy) Two Jewish American congressman said they are being flooded with complaints about an Israeli government decision to back out of an agreement over a new
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