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Historically Jewish Territories Are Not ‘Palestinian Territories’

March 21, 2023

To the editor: Bruce Ticker (“Israel is Our Business,” March 1) claims that the current Israeli government “has proposed annexing the Palestinian territories.” In fact, the government has not made any such proposal, and the platform of the ruling Likud party says nothing about annexing territories. Two of the smaller parties within the governing coalition […]

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Israel, Opinion

‘They’re Out to Get Us!’ Conspiracy Theories Against the Elderly

March 21, 2023

*Editor’s note: This column is posted posthumously. By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are definitely conspiracy theories against old people, and I can prove it. Whoever the conspirators are, they just want to make life harder for us seniors. Those of you who are young may not have noticed the terrible

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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion

The Crocus Project and the Meaning of the Holocaust

March 20, 2023

By Jerry Klinger In March 2022, Martin Sugarman, the Chairman of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation’s U.K. branch, shared with me a contact he had received. Susan Soyinka, from Penzance, Cornwall, had contacted him about possibly funding a Remembering Stone for Albert and Rosa Reuss. The Reusses were Austrian Jewish refugees who escaped

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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion

Moses Hess: The Red Rabbi

March 16, 2023

By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — “The liberation of the eternal city on the banks of the Tiber marked the beginning of the liberation of the eternal city on the slopes of Moria, with the resurrection of Italy begins the resurrection of Judaea,” Moses Hess, a secular Jewish philosopher, wrote in 1862 in the preface

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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion

A Front-Row Seat to Racism and Antisemitism

March 14, 2023

Published by New York Daily News Someone called me ni—r on the bus the other day. There was hate in his eyes, contempt in his soul, and venom on his lips where my fist should have been. It happened on the suburban bus I take twice a week to teach an undergraduate class in journalism.

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Opinion

‘Anger Issues’ Drive an Anti-Israel Bully

March 14, 2023

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Saadah Masoud pledges to address his “anger issues.” Does this mean he will no longer strike Jewish New Yorkers because they are Jewish? Three acts of violence in Brooklyn and Manhattan — against Jewish men — cost Masoud 18 months of his freedom. Masoud pleaded guilty in federal court

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Freeing America From the Quagmire of Inequality

March 13, 2023

By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The levels of wealth inequality we are currently witnessing in this country are unprecedented and alarming. The very richest among us have succeeded in grabbing ever more of the proverbial pie, and the trend is only worsening. Wealth inequality is proving disastrous for America. On both collective and individual

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Opinion, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

Palestinian Media Calls for Terrorism and the World is Silent

March 9, 2023

By Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) Over the last few weeks, a prominent Middle Eastern leader has been complicit in repeated calls to wipe out the entire State of Israel. Yet the international community has not said a word. How strange… No threats from the Biden administration to deny him a visa. No angry Reform rabbis

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Israel, Opinion, USA

Breaking the Cycle: Addressing the Link Between Women and Poverty

March 8, 2023

SAN DIEGO — Poverty is a complex issue that affects people from all walks of life, but it disproportionately affects women. Women are more likely to live in poverty than men, and the gender pay gap is just one factor that contributes to this disparity. According to the World Bank, women make up the majority

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Lifestyles, Opinion, San Diego County

The History of Insanity

March 8, 2023

By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — On June 28, 1914, the Serb student Gavrila Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo. A month later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia for the act of one Serb. The guilt of one person was shifted to the Serbian

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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion

B’Shalom: Schwarzenegger, Jacobs, Leak & Elo-Rivera

March 8, 2023

Hats off to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his You Tube video, shown in an article republished on San Diego Jewish World, that urges antisemites to turn away from hate for their own sake. Haters, he said, never win and end up broken. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Opinion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

God Speaks to Eric Adams, and NYC’s Mayor Tells the World…Adams, Adams, Adams

March 7, 2023

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well fit in somewhere between the great actor Frederic March’s portrayal of a fanatical lawyer delivering God’s instructions to the world, and that of lesser-known actor Jay Robinson as a frenzied Caligula when, as Rome’s emperor, he demands his court to “kneel…kneel…kneel

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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA

A Shaky Government in Israel

March 6, 2023

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Minister of Finance, with some power over defense, Bezalel Smotrich, has inspired anger from American and other foreign officials, for his call about destroying the Arab settlement where two Jews were murdered. Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of Security, with power over the police, has quarreled, and gotten only partial

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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion

What I Wish People Knew About Orthodox Jews

March 3, 2023

Published by Chicago Tribune In my life as a rabbi, it’s quite common for me to hear Jews passionately expressing their dissatisfaction with the latest portrayal of Jews in the mass media: from the Netflix film “You People” to The New York Times coverage of Hasidic schools to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s gleeful promotion

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Opinion

Historically Jewish Territories Are Not ‘Palestinian Territories’

‘They’re Out to Get Us!’ Conspiracy Theories Against the Elderly

The Crocus Project and the Meaning of the Holocaust

Moses Hess: The Red Rabbi

A Front-Row Seat to Racism and Antisemitism

‘Anger Issues’ Drive an Anti-Israel Bully

Freeing America From the Quagmire of Inequality

Palestinian Media Calls for Terrorism and the World is Silent

Breaking the Cycle: Addressing the Link Between Women and Poverty

The History of Insanity

B’Shalom: Schwarzenegger, Jacobs, Leak & Elo-Rivera

God Speaks to Eric Adams, and NYC’s Mayor Tells the World…Adams, Adams, Adams

A Shaky Government in Israel

What I Wish People Knew About Orthodox Jews

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