“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
A century ago, on 16 December 1920 a detailed report on the Pogroms in the Ukraine, a Memorandum on the Massacres of Jews in the Ukraine, was submitted to the League of Nations (now The United Nations) detailing the massacre of Jews in more than 400 pogroms. The memorandum was submitted by The Committee of Jewish Delegations, representing the Jewish populations of 22 countries, appealing to the League of Nations to obtain justice for the most terrible crimes that history had, until that time, ever witnessed,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
Before the expected sentence was handed down, family members of the murdered victim looked directly at the confessed shooter on Thursday, Sept. 30, and poured out their hearts. “What has your racist, entitled rage offered you in the end?” demanded Hannah Kaye of the defendant who had acknowledged murdering her mother, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, in the lobby of Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover. [Donald H. Harrison]
Family of Slain Lori Gilbert Kaye Speaks Out As Chabad of Poway Shooter is Sentenced Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
This memoir combines journal entries of Zionist fundraiser Irma Ehrlich with the research and narrative of her granddaughter, Catherine Ehrlich, to tell the story of a strong-willed woman who migrated to England, and later the United States, with her son, Paul, from Vienna, following the Anschluss that merged Nazi Germany and Austria. [Donald H. Harrison]
Refugee from Hitler Promoted Zionism in Britain and U.S. Read More »
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By Rafael Medoff Republished from the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a secret plea to Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1936, according to newly-uncovered documents. It wasn’t a plea to curtail Germany’s military buildup. It wasn’t a plea to Hitler to stop intervening on behalf of
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International, Jewish History, USA
Intrigue, maneuvering, scheming, plotting, and murder highlight the years from Herod’s reign to the Jewish rebellion against Rome, beginning in 66. Herod, the Great, acting more like the King of the Jews than a Jewish king, ascended to the throne in 37 BCE. His rule lasted forty-one years. [Fred Reiss, Ed.D]
Jewish Infighting Contributed to Fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History, Middle East