By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Some of us get a big kick when Yiddish makes it to a non-Jewish part of our culture, and it just recently happened again — this time in what, at least to me, was an unlikely and unexpected venue. The event was the latest Scripps National Spelling
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International, Jewish History, Joel H. Cohen, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – “From generation to generation” is a popular saying among Jews to indicate how Torah learning has been passed down from parent to child through the millennia. At Congregation Adat Yeshurun on Sunday night, the saying was happily augmented with another:
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Donald H. Harrison, Jacob Kamaras, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In an effort to goad Mexico into taking more action against Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States southern border, President Trump has announced that he will begin implementing tariffs on Mexican goods in the coming weeks and months. There is a long history
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International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – At the San Diego County Fair on Sunday, June 2, I was reminded of three Jewish entertainment figures who were instrumental to the making of the celebrated movie, The Wizard of Oz, which because of its San Diego connections provides the theme for this year’s fair.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Whether one agrees with Michael Shapiro’s listings in his 1995 book The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of all Time or not, the book should make us think not only whether we would agree with his selections, whether we would delete
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionNEW YORK (SDJW) — The American Jewish Congress has compiled a Jewish voter’s guide to the 2020 elections, looking at the stances President Donald Trump and the 24 Democratic presidential contenders, to date, have taken on Israeli and domestic Jewish concerns. The guide also provides information on the stances of members of the United States
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
KRAKOW, Poland (Press Release) — Kraków City Council has decided that one of the city streets will be named after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, the well-known caretaker of the Kraków ghetto orphanage. During the liquidation of the orphanage by the Nazis, Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live, or join them in their
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International, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School honored two Holocaust survivors at a Memorial Day gala on Monday, May 27, with keynote speaker Elizabeth Robbins, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, spelling out the connection. “I think Rabbi [and Headmaster Simcha] Weiser picked the best possible day to honor Fanny
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Longtime San Diego residents Robert and Helaine Baum were doing some Spring cleaning and found hundreds of pins and patches that they had collected over the years, then put away, and forgot. Their wide-ranging collection included memorabilia from the worlds of politics, sports, broadcasting, the labor movement, local
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Latin is a dead language. This is defined as “one that has no native speakers.” Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh is on a mission to make sure that Yiddish never goes the way of Latin. And she’s succeeding. Two years ago, the doctoral candidate from the Slavic Languages Department at the
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Eva Trieger, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — For most, Memorial Day is another day off. Another excuse not to go to work and grill hamburgers, or go to the beach and kvetch about politics and the decline of American society. However, Memorial Day is really a day to stop and assess the meaning of
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
By Navras J. Aafreedi From indiatimes.com KOLKATA, India — Estimated to be around five to ten thousand, Jews are the smallest religious minority in India classified under the category ‘Others’, representative of 0.7 per cent of the Indian population, in the census. They are so small in numbers that they do not even qualify to
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Moshe Phillips PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny died last week nearly 70 years after achieving fame. Besides his long career as a writer he was also a lifelong Zionist. This fact of Wouk’s love affair with the State of Israel has been completely absent from the many articles celebrating his literary
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Dorian DeWind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — It has been nearly 75 years since the last train crammed with Dutch Jews destined for the Auschwitz death camp left Westerbork, a camp situated in the northeastern part of the Netherlands that served as a transit camp for Dutch Jews before they were deported to
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History