My humans are moving next week into a senior community. They have assured me there’s a dog park there, but I fear that ICE (Incarcerating Canine Enemies) agents will wait there to arrest dogs who hail from foreign breeds. [Elona Baron as barked to Laurie Baron]
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Mahmoud Khalid – a former student leader at Columbia threatened with deportation – was not only released from detention for his protest activity but is now poised to sue President Trump for $20 million for violating his civil rights. (Bruce S. Ticker)
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This mystery novel portrays the tranquil marriage of a gay couple in San Diego while detailing the back-rubbing and back-biting at an academic institution, fictitiously set at UC San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Humans are prone to seeing patterns or causes—divine wrath, conspiracies, or supernatural interference—where none exist. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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The earliest manuscripts of the Torah and New Testament were not like today’s texts. The Bibles were written without spaces in between words. The Hebrew manuscripts did not have vowels, chapters, or verses. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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As I read stone after stone- often multiple stones at one household, I sadly reflected on the parallels of what unfolded in 1930’s Germany and what is unfolding in this country within our own neighborhoods. [Lisa Ashkins]
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We join the cast as they doing their tech rehearsal for the play within the play with the director Lloyd (James Waterston) coming up and down the aisles as he calls out directions to the cast. [Sandi Masori]
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Swaggart had a mixed relationship with the Jewish community. He said he loved the Jewish people and Israel, but he also said “I love the Jewish people…When you have true love for a people…it comes as an abrupt shock when they don’t reciprocate…” What else did he have to say about Jews? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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In Brandes’s opinion, understanding is not enough for a critic; they need a special intuition, an “intuitive” penetration into the depths of the life they are studying. Brandes was opposed to aestheticism in literature and the theory of “art for art’s sake.” [Alex Gordon]
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Giving these individuals something that is homemade means a lot to them, and this is what sets “Stitches” apart from other nonprofit organizations. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Lifestyles, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined ContributorsJewish wedding ceremonies are filled with symbolism. The fundamental elements of a wedding are the chuppah (the wedding canopy), the statement made by the groom to his bride, in which he declares his intention to take her as his wife, and her acceptance of him. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Had he been born 40 years later, the world might rank his comedic genius at a par with those of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Celebrities, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Jewish leadership reacted to the mass conversions after 1391 by attempting to convince their lost brethren to return to Judaism, pointing out what they considered to be the illogical elements of Christian belief. One of the attempts was a short book written by Hasdai Crescas in 1398, The Refutation of the Christian Principles. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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We find ourselves at the heart of this ancient drama, where a Moabite king, Balak, gripped by fear of the burgeoning Israelite nation, seeks to harness the power of a renowned prophet, Balaam, to curse them. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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