Opinion

Rep. Sara Jacobs: Why I Voted to Remove the Speaker of the House

(Press Release) San Diego County’s U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51), who is Jewish, on Wednesday issued the following statement on the removal of U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20) as Speaker of the House of Representatives: Dear Friend, By now, you’ve probably heard that Kevin McCarthy is no longer Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. […]

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Opinion, San Diego County, USA

Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Mishegoss

By Barrett Holman Leak SAN DIEGO — I have always appreciated Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British comedy series which delivers skits of surreal humor. As you watch, you know the sketches are packed with a form of humor grounded in incongruity, non-sequiturs, irrational or absurd situations and other intentional violations of causal reasoning —

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Barrett Holman Leak, Opinion, San Diego County

J’Accuse! A Call for Truth, Justice, and Jewish Honor

By Franklin Gaylis and Sara E. Brown SAJAC (South African Jewish American Community) was one of the first organizations to promote Michael Kretzmer’s documentary, J’Accuse! in 2022. This documentary film tells the story of the Lithuanian Holocaust. Approximately 220,000 Lithuanian Jews — 96.4 % of Lithuania’s Jewish population, the highest proportion in Europe — were

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Holocaust, International, Opinion, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A Palestinian Peace Pact Blown to Pieces?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “I believe that a real path towards a genuine peace with our Palestinian neighbors can finally be achieved,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will not accept any concessions to the Palestinians,” said National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir will probably never

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion

An Armenian Leader’s False Holocaust Analogy

By Paul Miller (JNS) With antisemitism and other forms of hate metastasizing online, the principle known as “Godwin’s Law” is increasingly relevant. The law asserts that the longer an online discussion continues, the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Hitler increases. Whoever makes such analogy first, it asserts, loses the argument. Regrettably, Godwin’s Law

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Holocaust, International, Opinion, USA

Discovering Purpose

By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — With Rosh Hashanah this past weekend, there were plenty of festivities. From services to lunch to dinner to shofar blasts to tashlich, the opportunities to connect with community were endless. Chatting up friends old and new, I broke the ice with my standard question — “any new year’s resolutions?”

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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka

Rosh Hashanah: What Does it Mean to be Human?

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Socrates is famous for saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” If Socrates had a preferred Jewish holiday, I believe it would undoubtedly be Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. These holidays offer us an opportunity to reflect, review, and reconsider who we are, what we’ve

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Opinion