Jewish History

Comic-Con has its own kind of sequels

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Comic books often have their sequels.  So too do appearances at Comic-Con. At the current Comic-Con, a panel on art in the Holocaust was largely a repeat of last year’s panel – with some new information.  Meanwhile, an independent exhibitor, Miriam Libicki, about whom two stories have appeared […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Keep your eye on the ball’ advises pinball magnate

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “Keep your eye on the ball,” advises Gary Stern, who ought to know. No, he’s not a Little League coach.  His company is a large manufacturer of pinball machines, and the sponsor of international pinball tournaments which attract 70,000 ranked players in 30 countries. Stern has other tips

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Jewish group helps dedicate Ida Wells- Barnett marker

By Jerry Klinger HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi — I have dedicated scores of historical markers and memorials across America as President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP).  Almost all the projects have a Jewish theme or background story. Next month in Marietta, Georgia, JASHP will dedicate the first ever anti-lynching memorial to all

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA

Book Review: ‘Jews in Medicine’

Jews in Medicine, Contributions to Health and Healing through the Age by Ronald L. Eisenberg Jerusalem and New York: Urim Publications, 2019, 464 pages, $34.95 By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — This 464-page encyclopedic reference book starts with the Talmud and comes into the present including still living practitioners. The author identifies Jewish

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust analogies? Helpful or harmful?

By Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — A Cagle cartoon at The Moderate Voice used images of Nazi concentration camps to bring attention to the plight of detained illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and their children – many separated from their parents – languishing at barbed-wire-enclosed, cage like detention centers. The final image in the

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA

How later rabbis distorted the Rambam’s teachings

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The “Yeshiva world,” is comprised for the most part of schools where far-right rabbis teach Jewish students their view of Judaism, a religion that rejects secular studies as harmful and heretical. Many far-right rabbis respect Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish laws, but not his

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Entebbe rescued, rescuers celebrate 43rd anniversary

JAFFA, Israel (Press Release) — On the 43rd anniversary of Operation Entebbe, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation was honoured to present to the public rare notes written by Defense Minister Shimon Peres during the preparation of the daring rescue mission, one of them addressed to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The ceremony was attended

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Feature story leads to an honor for his Opa’s patient

By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — My story “Hannover to Terezin, roundtrip please,” appeared on San Diego Jewish World on June 2, 2018. It has had remarkable unexpected consequences. My interest in Theresienstadt (the German name for the Czech Terezin) started in the 1980s when my mother gave me my grandfather’s papers.  They

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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak

Wrong to use Holocaust analogies in immigration battle

By Jack Rosen NEW YORK –When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently used the term “concentration camps” and the expression “Never Again” to refer to the detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border, I found myself torn. The pain and urgency of America’s immigration and asylum crisis are immense. At the same time — and although my position

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International, Jewish History, USA

Trinidad, Colorado, celebrates Temple Aaron

By Jerry Klinger TRINIDAD, Colorado — Temple Aaron in this city celebrated its 130th birthday, Big Time on the weekend of June 21-23. The Temple is 200 miles from Denver, 200 miles from Albuquerque, 200 miles from nearly everything sustainably Jewish. Its last full-time rabbi died 103 years ago.  Yet, the town enduringly refuses to

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Holocaust, detention centers, and Ocasio- Cortez

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The dentist in the television series Seinfeld, Tim Whatley, D.D.S., converted to Judaism in order to tell Jewish jokes, so perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Jewish roots to exploit Jewish suffering – and in the process created a sideshow that diverted attention from the suffering of migrants held in

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Jewish History, USA