Mike Nichols (November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. [Wikipedia]
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Perry Arenson spotted this license plate near a local golf course. Tzisit, an alternate spelling for tzitzit, are the strings hanging from a tallit (prayer shawl) worn during Jewish morning services mostly by men, but increasingly by women. [SDJW staff]
“Polis” means city in ancient Greek. Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Annapolis, Maryland, held elections for mayor on Tuesday. [Donald H. Harrison]
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) clashed Wednesday in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election on Tuesday as the next mayor of New York City. [SDJW staff]
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Leventhal, a third generation San Diego native, says that doing volunteer work is something she comes by naturally as it was a value that she learned from her family growing up. [Mimi Pollack]
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Ulla Hadar has researched, among other things, the biographies of the child victims from the Vilnius Ghetto. Ulla and Nicole, too, have developed a close partnership. In June 2025, the pair were invited to Vilnius, Lithuania, to present The Butterfly Project to Lithuanian teachers at a seminar hosted by The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOli). [Press Release]
With a name like Kavod, which translates to “honor” or “respect” I expected that it would be a Jewish day school. It is not. According to Jordyn Theroux, Community Engagement Coordinator, it is a tuition-free public school intent on “developing socially responsible, respectful global citizens.” [Eva Trieger]
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“Never Again” is vital- we can all agree on that. However, if we stop there, we risk defining our Jewish identity only through tragedy and always needing to be on the defensive. Where is the message that moves us forward? [Ilanit Zakowski]
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Ackerman then performed her one-woman show Flowers Aren’t Enough, portraying Michal, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship. The 50-minute performance, followed by a 30-minute discussion, is based on real stories and has been staged more than 2,500 times across seven continents. [Cailin Acosta]
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His 326-page book has 14 chapters that discuss a wide range of essential subjects, including creation, the dignity of life, humanity imitating God, tikkun olam (repairing and perfecting the world), the struggle of life against death, the lesson of the Holocaust, and much more. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Bernard-Henri Lévy (November 5, 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the “Nouveaux Philosophes” (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. [Wikipedia]
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Tuesday’s election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s next mayor prompted immediate sharp reactions from the Anti-Defamation League and from the Republican Jewish Coalition. [Donald H. Harrison]
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The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has issued a statement mourning the Nov. 3 death of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and the San Diego Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) marked the 60th anniversary of the Vatican’s issuance of the groundbreaking Nostre Aetate report at a joint observance at a Catholic Church in Poway. [SDJW staff]
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In statements to Politico and to its own members, it expressed regret for “hurt feelings” and for not researching JPAC’s activities, but failed to confront the deeper issue: the suggestion that Jewish organizations are somehow harmful or suspect, and the dangerous message that Jewish participation in civic life can be treated as conditional. [David Bocarsly]
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