Donald Trump’s interview with Yedioth Aharonot, with a chilling summary was the headline of Friday’s front page. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
On Trump, Bibi, Biden, Bennett and Their Competitors Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
My grandmother brought up her sons, my father and his brother, in the spirit of loyalty to Communism. She herself could not have been a Bolshevik, for in her youth she had been tainted by her membership in the Menshevik Party. She did not hide her biography and taught her children to be honest and frank with their motherland and the Bolshevik party. In the upbringing of my uncle, her eldest son, my grandmother had tremendous success. [Alex Gordon]
Memoir: The Soviet Man’s American Dream Read More »
International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
The Jewish Faculty Network (JFN), is comprised of some 140 Canadian academics who last March published a statement in which they decried the IRHA definition, suggesting at that time that, “as Jews,” they wished to “add our voices to a growing international movement of Jewish scholars to insist that university policies to combat antisemitism are not used to stifle legitimate criticisms of the Israeli state, or the right to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.” [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Dan Baer, who has served as director of Camp Mountain Chai over the last six years, has announced his resignation to take a job as director of Camp Seneca Lake in Rochester, New York. Rachel Shyloski, the associate camp director, will serve as interim director pending a search to fill out the camp team, it was announced Thursday, Dec. 9, by David Bark, the board president, and Buddy Voit, executive director. [Camp Mountain Chai]
Baer Leaves Camp Mountain Chai for Camp Seneca Lake Read More »
San Diego County, USA
Published by uPolitics.com Former United States Rep. Max Rose (D-New York) announced that he will challenge incumbent Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York) in next year’s midterm election, setting up an ideological showdown in a rare conservative New York City congressional district that includes the southwestern tip of Brooklyn as well as all of Staten Island,
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USA
Dr. Robert Penner, 91, has done a lot of things in his life. He was an ophthalmologist with a private practice in Chula Vista; a colonel in the Army Reserve; president of the San Diego County Medical Society and of the San Diego County Eye Bank; and chairman of the San Diego Port Commission, among other distinctions. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by Reuters By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared ready to further expand public funding of religiously based entities, indicating sympathy toward a challenge by two Christian families to a Maine tuition assistance program that excludes private schools that promote religious beliefs. The court heard nearly two hours
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USA
During the 2020-21 academic year, a vocal segment of the anti-Israel groups and activists on campus continued to engage in rhetoric that often demeaned or ostracized many pro-Israel Jewish students. At times, antisemitic tropes were invoked. This became a flashpoint during the conflict between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, according to ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) annual assessment of anti-Israel actions on campus. {Anti-Defamation League]
ADL: Anti-Israel Groups on College Campuses Harassing Jewish Students Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Richard Lerner, the masterful biochemist who guided Scripps Research on its way to becoming an elite center for biomedical science and helped develop Humira, the highest-selling therapeutic drug in the world last year, died on Dec. 2. He was 83. The private, nonprofit institute told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Lerner died of cancer at his home in La Jolla. [San Diego Union-Tribne]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Says U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, “Words can cause violence.” The Minneapolis Democrat was referring to the words of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who represents much of western and southern Colorado. Omar could have been referring to her own words – words like “the evil doings of Israel,” “the apartheid Israeli regime” and “all about the Benjamins” in reference to pro-Israel lobbying. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Omar Should Point at Herself When She Denounces Hostile Rhetoric Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA
The show was sold out and had a waiting list. More than 400 Israel supporters of all ages, faiths and political persuasions joined StandWithUs as it celebrated its 20th year anniversary at its annual “Festival of Lights” gala, on Sunday, December 5. Held at the spacious Wilshire Ebell Social Club and Theater, guests showed proof of vaccination or negative COVID tests, were able to eat outside or inside, and wore masks inside the theater. The 2020 gala was held virtually to international audiences of tens of thousands. The 2021 event was also live-streamed, reaching thousands more during and after the show. [StandWithUs]
StandWithUs Gala Attracts 400+ Israel Supporters Read More »
Middle East, USA
There are Jews here. This can be a simple statement of fact, but it is often phrased: There are Jews here?! Small towns are not where we usually expect to find Jewish communities. Such small town shtiebels are the subject of a documentary film, There Are Jews Here through America Reframed and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. [Eric George Tauber]
‘There Are Jews Here’ Documents A Dwindling World Read More »
Eric George Tauber, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAUnsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli academics to a full membership vote in 2022. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
OpEd: Middle East Studies Association’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom Read More »
Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
The first-ever recognition of the extraordinary accomplishments of Jewish American Julius Rosenwald in a historical U.S. Presidential setting, was placed recently. The interpretive panel is located in President Roosevelt’s “Little White House” Warm Springs, Georgia. [Jerry Klinger]
Rosenwald Plaque Installed at FDR’s Little White House Read More »
Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA