By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Today (Sept 1) is the 80th anniversary of my becoming a displaced person. That’s how I described the day in my memoir Six Lives: On September 1, 1939, my world collapsed. I mark the date every year as the anniversary of my anxiety neurosis. It was the day Nazi
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International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison Helping Holocaust Survivors SAN DIEGO — Meeting the needs of impoverished Holocaust survivors is a new joint initiative of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County and Jewish Family Service in association with the Seed the Dream Foundation and KAVOD Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund (SHEF). In a statement in
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Chaim Waxman, a prominent and highly respected sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, has made a superb assessment of the history, development, and current and future situation of Orthodoxy in his relatively short but comprehensive 178-page book, Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy, with 48
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Seed of Israel: DNA Guide To Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry by Joshua Robbin Marks, 48 pages including endnotes; available on Amazon.com for $14.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Perhaps your friends or relatives have told you that they did a DNA test and found out about their ancestry, and now you’re wondering whether
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education
This story was updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A week before the November 2018 election, 17 San Diego-area rabbis signed a letter denouncing Rep. Duncan Hunter‘s “fear mongering” attacks on the Palestinian ancestry of Christian opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar. They said the Republican congressman’s attacks on the
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born this day (August 22) in 1891.
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rashida Tlaib was in tears over the conditions in which her grandmother lives in the West Bank, and furious that her mother, an American citizen, was forced to go through a “checkpoint” from Israel once in order to visit her. “As a young girl, visiting Palestine to see my
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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
-Last in a series- By Nicole Nocon COTTBUS, Germany — When my friend Steven Schindler of San Diego first asked me if we should bring The Butterfly Project to my daughter’s school in Cottbus, Germany, I would never have dreamt of what this initiative would set in motion. Steven is the son of the Holocaust
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USANobel Prize winning economist Leonid Hurwicz was born this day (August 21) in 1917.
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & EducationScreenwriter Walter Bernstein was born this day (August 20) in 1919.
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
How do we make the Holocaust accessible to students? What’s at stake, for them, for us, for the world? But equally important, what can we learn from working with one another? – Sondra Perl -Second in a series- By Maren Oom Galarpe SAN DIEGO — As an arts educator and perpetual student of life, I
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
Miep and the Most Famous Diary by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by Jordi Solano, Sleeping Bear Press (c) 2019, ISBN 9791534-11-0250, 40 pages, for children 6-10; $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The story of the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family focuses on the time immediately after the Franks were dragged
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By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Donald Trump has recently expressed interest in the possibility of the United States purchasing Greenland from Denmark (Note: It is NOT for sale). While it is not exactly clear why Trump is interested, it may be related to the natural resources on the island (iron, oil, gold, uranium
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International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireFormer U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn., was born this day (August 17) in 1949.
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA