Oscar Predictions
Every year I predict the Oscar winners in major categories based on surveys of what the Hollywood trade publications are predicting. I name a likely winner if my prediction is wrong. [Laurie Baron]
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More ‘Red Alerts’ in Kfar Saba than ever before
However, our strategies are not exactly aligned. The U.S. president wants a quick “victory” and Israel wants to destroy its two jihadi opponents, the Iranian government and Hezbollah. “Quickly” won’t accomplish it. [Steve Kramer]
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International, Israel, Middle East, News Media, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Steve Kramer, USAParshiot: Vayakhel-Pekudei: Gather and rise
There are portions of Torah that move quickly. And then there are those that linger. Vayakhel and Pekudei linger. They return repeatedly to the details of constructing the Mishkan, to names, to measurements, to repetition. It’s fair to ask: Why spend so much time on this? [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Staff and Bylined ContributorsParsha Vayakhel: Shabbat brings with it an extra soul
On Shabbat, we receive an expanded vitality: heightened joy, deeper peace, expanded capacity for gratitude, and a profound sense of wholeness. It is as if God breathes fresh life into us anew, allowing our souls to “catch up” and even surpass the pace of the week. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Staff and Bylined ContributorsTransgender people ordered to surrender their Kansas drivers’ licenses
Effective Thursday, February 26, the Kansas state government passed a law that invalidated the drivers licenses of transgender people in the state overnight and ordered them to surrender their IDs. This law is harmful and unconstitutional; the ACLU filed a lawsuit in Kansas state court, working to overturn it, or at least buy time for transgender residents. [Press Release}
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Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USAS.D. City Council to debate IHRA definition of antisemitism
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism will be debated as a city policy by the San Diego City Council at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17. The event includes a security screening in the lobby. [Cailin Acosta]
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Antisemitism, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USASatire: Inside Iran choosing a new Supreme Leader
The recording was made using a device hidden in the robe of a mole within the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The device, smuggled into Iran by an Israeli spy, was radio-activated when an order of bagels and lox was delivered to a meeting of the IRGC’s executive board. [Bruce Lowitt]
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International, Israel, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USAICE continues to arrest legal asylum seekers
The Gámez-Cuéllar family followed the rules. They came into the country at a border crossing in Brownsville and claimed asylum. They attended court dates and check-ins. [Sara Jacobs]
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAPlaying Shylock, playing Saul Rubinek: It’s all in the telling
Rubinek’s scheduled performance on March 25 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan should prove memorable. He will read from All in the Telling; show clips from his documentary film, So Many Miracles, about his 1986 trip with his parents to Poland to reunite with the farmers who hid them for two and a half years during the Holocaust; and hold a discussion with Professor Annette Insdorf, who teaches film at Columbia. [Susie Rosenbluth)
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Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, News Media, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhy are the media and mob so anti-Israel?
That there is a huge bias against Israel is beyond argument. It is backed by data but also obvious: a Western style democracy with full rule of law is painted as a “genocide” state by the great uneducated, and often unwashed, from the campus to street demos, to riots and in all types of media. [David Anderson]
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International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAThe global resurgence of the ‘Jewish Question’
After World War II, it seemed that an answer to the Jewish question had been found: the creation of the State of Israel and the positive attitude of Western civilization towards the Jewish people in its diaspora. [Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, Antisemitism, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA‘The Optimist’: Troubled teenager brings out Holocaust survivor’s hidden story
An independent film, The Optimist, opens on Wednesday, March 11, in over 700 theaters nationwide. It tells the story of Theresienstadt-and- Auschwitz survivor Herbert Heller (Stephen Lang) recounting his Holocaust experiences after 60 years of keeping silent. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAShakespeare, Hasidic sage Zusya, shared belief in unique purpose of each human being
Shakespeare and Rabbi Zusya lived more than a century apart and in very different worlds, yet together they illuminate a deeply Jewish idea: tafkid, the belief that each soul enters the world with a particular purpose. [Betzy Lynch]
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Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSatire: Bombadier-in-chief
“We’re using Mexico and Central America as a road to South America. We’ve got, heh-heh, regime change in Venezuela, and we’re attacking the drug trade in Ecuador.;;;” [Bruce Lowitt]
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Bruce F. Lowitt, International, Israel, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA