The file photo from NASA shows US Astronaut Eugene Cernan walks on the surface of Moon during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. [Photo/Xinhua] HOUSTON – Former astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the last person to walk on the moon returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind,” died […]
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Obituaries & memorials, The World We ShareSusannah Heschel was just a child in the spring of 1965, when her father left for Selma, Alabama, to march with those demanding that everyone be allowed to vote regardless of their skin color. “He kissed me goodbye,” says Heschel. “And I remember thinking ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever see him again.’” Just a
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USAFLUSHING, New York (Press Release) — Citifield was at full capacity on Sunday — not for a baseball game, but for a day of Torah learning, presented by the Orthodox Union. Torah in the City, an event created and presented by the OU, drew close to 1,500 men and women from the tri-state area and beyond
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Jewish Religion, USALondon (dpa) – Lord Snowdon, a royal portrait photographer and former husband of Queen Elizabeth II’s sister, died on Friday aged 86, his family and colleagues said. “Camera Press is very sad to announce the death of royal photographer Lord Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones,” Snowdon’s photographic agency said on Twitter. Born Antony Armstrong-Jones, Snowdon was best
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International, Obituaries & memorialsJimmy “Superfly” Snuka has passed away at age 73, according to the Snuka family: Our family @TaminaSnuka asked me to share the sad news that her dad Jimmy Snuka has just passed away. Alofa atu i le aiga atoa. #RIPSuperfly — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) January 15, 2017 The news comes following reports that Snuka had
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Obituaries & memorials, Sports & CompetitionsIsrael’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday held a ceremony welcoming a Torah scroll to its synagogue in Jerusalem’s government complex. Attending the ceremony were Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau, senior officials in both the Religious Services and Foreign Ministries, and representatives from Romania’s Jewish community. The “new” Torah scroll
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastTo some, he was the voice of Rodimus Prime on the mid-1980s animated TV show “The Transformers,” or Serpentor on the animated “G.I. Joe.” But for baby boomers, Dick Gautier was best known for his deadpan performance as Hymie the robot in the ’60s spy spoof “Get Smart.” Gautier’s daughter Denise told the Hollywood Reporter
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, January 14, 2017 – Screenwriter and novelist William Peter Blatty, who won widespread fame as the author of “The Exorcist” (1971), died Thursday morning, January 12 at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, the Washington, D.C. suburb where he lived. He was 89. William Friedkin, a longtime friend and colleague who directed iconic 1973 film
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The artwork, lives, and Jewish heritage of three San Diego artists are explored in a new fine art exhibition Art & Heritage opening January 28 at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. The works of featured artists Belle Baranceanu, Maurice Braun, and Harry Sternberg will complement a
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarWhat is a Blessing? By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — After a deeply spiritual life, Yaakov is now ready to charge and bless the next generation as they prepare to carry on the mission of teaching the world the greatness of G-d. The angelic glory which emanated from Yaakov must have surely generated an
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Jewish ReligionBy Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — In a breakthrough cuisine at UC San Diego and a plus for the community, a renovated campus restaurant offering hot kosher meals and Halal-friendly ingredients hosted its grand opening Wednesday. And UCSD freshman Nora Yagolnitser’s Jewish grandmother approves. Yagolnitser went to the “soft opening” of
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationWashington (dpa) – A Jewish anti-hate group criticized US president-elect Donald Trump Wednesday for remarks conflating the leaking of scandalous allegations against him with “Nazi Germany.” The analogy “is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust,” Anti-Defamation League chief executive Jonathan
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JERUSALEM (Press Release)- Jeff Aeder, owner of Chicago’s restaurant Milt’s BBQ for the Perplexed, and founder of the Jewish Baseball Museum, donated an ambucycle to United Hatzalah in honor of his late father Arthur Aeder. Jeff said that his father was a true Zionist, a lover of the Jewish people. The date of the ambucycle
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & CompetitionsHong Kong (dpa) – British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth is dead, aged 105, it was announced on her Facebook page Tuesday night. Hollingworth made history for her discovery that Germany was about to invade Poland and start World War II. She got the scoop just a week into her first job as a journalist at
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