By Gedaliah Borvick On the way to a meeting on Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem, I struck up an interesting conversation with the cab driver about Israel’s fourth prime minister. Golda Meir is memorialized with streets across the country named in her honor and yet many people in Israel lack the adoration that she has
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Gedaliah Borvick, Jewish History
Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish resistance, learned of a new camp established by the German Nazis in the Polish city of Oswiecim, toward what end no one knew yet. He volunteered to do the unthinkable: to purposely be captured by the Nazis and to be sent to the camp, which came to be known as Auschwitz. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
Using many sources, including hundreds of anecdotes, former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1985-1987) and Under Secretary of Defense (2001-2004) Rabbi Dr. Dov S. Zakheim, author of Nehemiah: Statesman and Sage (Maggid Books, 2016), gives us a very informative and riveting, easy to read biography of one of the most important figures of ancient Jewry, Rabbi Judah the Prince (135-217), also called Rebbe, “Teacher.” He was the man who had Judaism’s Oral Law put into writing, called the Mishna, which became the basis of the Talmud. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion
There has long been a history of politicians, school administrators, and others attempting to further their personal, political or religious perspectives by controlling the books used for instruction in schools or offered in libraries. Which of the following books was banned, or proposed for banning, and why? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
In the Oct. 17, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
–An Israeli startup can test whether a recovering cancer patient needs chemotherapy.
–Israelis are aiding and rescuing trapped Afghans.
–An Israeli has been elected President of Europe’s top nuclear research organization.
–The brother of Israel’s PM has launched an electro-hydrogen truck in the UK.
–BMW, LG, and other multinationals are using Israeli smart glass in their products.
–An Israeli hosted chess tournament attracted participants from Iran and Saudi Arabia.
–Over a million people visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall during the recent festivals. {Michael Ordman]
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
“Teachers in a Texas school district were told last week that a new state law requiring them to present multiple perspectives about “widely debated and currently controversial” issues meant they needed to make “opposing” views on the Holocaust available to students.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 10/14/2021 [Laurie Baron, Ph.D}
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International, Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker canceled a campaign fundraiser that would be hosted by a filmmaker whose Twitter profile picture was a swastika shape made up of syringes in protest of vaccine mandates, reported New York Post. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History, USA
Sunbelt Publications Inc. published the first of the six books I have written so far. It was the biography, Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur. In the event that you haven’t heard of him, he was the man for whom Rose Canyon, Rose Creek, and the Roseville section of the Point Loma neighborhood were named. The Robinson-Rose Building in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is another reminder of his legacy. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
I saw the film Hannah’s War about the heroine and martyr Hannah Senesh on TV. I feel that it is a film everyone should see. It is very moving. Hannah Senesh is one of Israel’s most important heroines. She was born on July 17, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, and died on November 7, 1944 in Budapest, murdered by a firing squad at age 23, after refusing a blindfold, but looking straight at the pro-Nazi Hungarian firing squad that killed her. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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International, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Middle East
One of the mystical traditions of Judaism is that a person’s soul remains close to the body until the 30th day after death, when it departs for the next world. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
For the first time in nearly two years Friends of Sutro Tunnel (Friends) will be opening the 28-acre Sutro Tunnel site to members of the public wishing to tour and get an up-close and personal look into one of Nevada’s most unique and historic mining sites. Tours will be offered throughout Sunday, Oct. 17, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. by ticketed admission. All proceeds raised through the event will go directly toward work the Friends of Sutro Tunnel are doing to restore the Sutro Tunnel site. [Friends of Sutro Tunnel]
Sutro Tunnel Tour Celebrates Jewish Entrepreneur’s Vision Read More »
Jewish History, USA
Published by Reuters By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood on Sunday in Jerusalem with her head bowed over the buried ashes of Jews killed in Nazi death camps, and pledged Germany would preserve a post-Holocaust commitment to Israel’s security. Merkel, on her eighth and final visit to Israel as she
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International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Alaska is the land of the very long day and the land of the very long, longer, night. During the very long day temperatures can soar to 100 degrees. During the very long nights, temperatures can drop to 50 degrees below zero plus. Alaskan Jews wittily refer to
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History
Israel’s political leadership assembled at Mt. Herzl on Monday to observe the fifth anniversary of the death of Shimon Peres, who served twice as a prime minister and once as Israel’s president. They were joined by members of Peres’ family, who also delivered tributes. [Peres Peace Center}
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Jewish History, Middle East