In alphabetical order are comments issued by Jewish and pro-Israel organizations and members of Congress about the Israel-Hamas peace deal. [SDJW staff]
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Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a comprehensive end-of-war and hostage release deal, brokered by President Donald Trump, which is set to be signed in Egypt on Thursday afternoon. {Heidi Gantwerk]
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Heidi Gantwerk, International, Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
“I learned a lot today that I never knew about the Holocaust. I thought it only affected people who were Jewish,” said my son, 13-year-old, 8th grader Alex Acosta. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, Oct. 7, signed Assembly Bill 715 into law, groundbreaking legislation to counter antisemitism in California’s K-12 public schools. Authored by Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur and Dawn Addis, sponsored by the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC), backed by 72 Jewish organizations statewide, and principally co-authored by the Chairs of the Jewish, Black, Latino, and AAPI Legislative Caucuses, AB 715 received broad bipartisan support in the Legislature, passing the Assembly 71-0 and the Senate 35-0. [Press Release]
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Antisemitism, California, International, Israel, Jewish History, Press Release, USATwo years of grief.
Two years of fear.
Two years of searching
For language that does not exist. … [Recustom]
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We can hope that President Trump’s Gaza plan will end the war between Israel and Hamas, but who will end the war against the Jews in the rest of the world? [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Antisemitism, Bruce Ticker, Israel, Jewish History, News Media, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
As this historic week begins, I pray that the emerging peace initiative will soon bring about the prompt release of the remaining 48 hostages. [Ted Deutch]
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Israel, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
In 1895, Durkheim published The Rules of Sociological Method. In the same year, he founded the first European sociology department in Bordeaux. Three years later, he founded the country’s first social sciences journal, L’Année Sociologique (The Sociological Yearbook). [Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Noam Tibon, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Force, dramatically rescued his son Amir, daughter-in-law Miri, and their two daughters Galia, 3, and Carmel, 1, after Hamas terrorists from Gaza stormed Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7, 2023. [Donald H. Harrison]
Subsequently, I learned that a group of anti-Israel activists held a demonstration in front of the Miami Beach Holocaust memorial. What does the Holocaust Memorial have to do with Israel’s conflict with the so-called Palestinians? [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Antisemitism, Bruce Ticker, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Cohn spent nearly four decades covering sports for the San Francisco Chronicle and Santa Rosa Press Democrat and his columns were notable for his fearlessness in going after anyone – team owners, coaches and players. In 2022 he was inducted into the Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [Bruce Lowitt]
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Bruce F. Lowitt, California, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Sports & Competitions, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
The famous Russian Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam was baptized into Lutheranism in 1911, at the age of twenty. He renounced his Jewishness in one of his most famous poems, “For the Rattling Valor of the Future Centuries” (1931). (Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Baba Sali (September 26, 1889 – January 8, 1984), was a leading Moroccan Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist who was renowned for his ability to work miracles through his prayers. His burial place in Netivot, Israel has become a shrine for prayers and petitioners. [Wikipedia]
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On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly session opening in New York, B’nai B’rith International today bestowed its Presidential Gold Medal—the organization’s highest honor—upon President Javier Milei of Argentina in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Press Release]
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