The National Park Service has agreed to a request from the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) to include mention of Adolph Sutro’s Jewish heritage on a marker at Sutro Heights Park in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, JASHP announced on Wednesday, Nov. 17. [SDJW]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
Torah Live’s graphics, animation and film level are highly professional and their team of men and women includes over thirty scriptwriters, animators, video editors, and sound and special effects artists. While the world was in lockdown, Torah Live kicked in big time. Since Covid over a million and a half videos have been viewed, and the website has been accessed by 168,000 active users. It has hundreds of thousands of viewers from around North America and the world, including in Moscow, Paris, London, Australia, and South Africa, and including 117 in San Diego, a number the Torah Live people hope will continue to grow. {Toby Klein Greenwald]
Gaming Site, ‘Torah Live,’ Enlivens Jewish Education Read More »
International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Toby Klein Greenwald, USA
Not only was Israel’s self-defense denounced as disproportionate, illegal, overly aggressive, and tantamount to war crimes, but the broader question about Israel’s legal right to even exist was raised, along with the tired, loaded language of the woke Left, language which includes such terms, when describing Israel, as “colonial,” “occupation,” “siege,” “ethnic cleansing,” “settlements,” “state violence,” “racism,” as well as the favorite slur leveled against the Jewish state that it is enforcing a new form of “apartheid” and that a country called “Palestine” will be “liberated” as a result of global advocacy for the Palestinian cause. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
The Anti-Israel Con at UConn Read More »
Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Israel and the United States are at odds over the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. You may not remember that Congress passed – by more that a 10:1 margin – the ‘Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995’ [Steve Kramer]
OpEd: Jerusalem Must Remain Undivided Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
In a meeting in May with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Biden administration priority “to continue to rebuild our relationship with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority.” Now, after announcing it wants to open a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for the Palestinians, come reports that the administration is working on a plan for a Palestinian “unity government” of Hamas and Fatah to negotiate the “two-state solution” with Israel. [Shoshana Bryen]
Shoshana Bryen: U.S. Encourages Palestinian Intransigence Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
StandWithUs called for a formal investigation by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) leadership into a case where the Muslim Students Association (MSA) likely denied a Jewish student their constitutional rights during a Zoom public meeting, as outlined in a legal letter to the administration sent by StandWithUs and the Jewish student. For the student’s safety, their identity is being kept anonymous. An independent source provided StandWithUs with a captured video of the MSA’s egregious effort to marginalize and stigmatize this Jewish student through discriminatory action. [StandWithUs]
StandWithUs Seeks Formal Investigation of Antisemitism at UC Santa Cruz Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Migrant rights advocate Enrique Morones told a Tifereth Israel Synagogue audience that the United States should adopt an immigration policy that is more coherent and more humane. [Donald H. Harrison]
Enrique Morones: U.S. Must Be More Welcoming to Migrants Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, USA
This cutting-edge comedy has been delighting audiences in Toronto, Boston, Washington DC, and Chicago over the past three years, and now the Lyceum will host this group of world-famous comedic stars. The Washington Post described this show as a “funny, fiercely political comedy-sketch show.” This script is written and performed by an all-female troupe and pokes fun at the female experience, attendant stereotypes, and common experiences. [Eva Trieger]
‘She The People’ Comedy Heads West to San Diego Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
For the full episode with Deborah Lipstadt, visit: https://allinclusivepodcast.com/podcasts/s04-ep25-confronting-antisemitism-series-part-i/ [All Inclusive with Jay Ruderman]
Lipstadt: Disproportionate Criticism of Israel is Antisemitism Read More »
International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
People often ask me how Israel copes with climate change. Yet Israelis don’t look to cope; they look to solve. When Israelis wanted faster computers, they invented the Intel microchip. When they were tired of missing phone messages, they invented voicemail. And when they were fed up with peak-hour traffic, they invented Waze. As the world faces the behemothic challenge of climate change, tiny Israel—a country the size of New Jersey—could serve as a light unto the nations to solve this macro-environmental crisis. [JNS.org]
Lizerbram: Israeli Technology Can Help the World Solve Climate Change Read More »
Middle East, The World We Share, USA
The shekel is strong. The dollar is weak. What does that mean? Commentary here puts the blame on high investments from overseas in Israel, especially in high-tech. It also means that Israeli purchases in the US, or in dollar-linked countries–including Israeli travel overseas, are cheap. But Israel exports to the same places aren’t as profitable as usual. There are fewer dollars coming into the country in exchange for what’s exported. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
Israeli Shekel Increasing in Value Against Other Currencies Read More »
Business & Finance, International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Ira Spector, who contributed more than 30 columns to this publication on subjects including his childhood in Brooklyn, his service in the Coast Guard, his extensive travels, interesting personalities he had met, and his flamboyant tennis game, died Oct. 14, just four days shy of his 88th birthday. [SDJW]
Ira Spector (1933-2021) Read More »
International, Lifestyles, Middle East, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Bert Edelstein elevated his hand one foot above the table at which he was sitting. “My correspondence file is almost this thick,” he commented. He sent letters to the House of Representatives and the Senate. After the House adopted legislation to recognize the Ghost Army with a Congressional Gold Medal, the focus turned to the U.S. Senate. Under the rules, for the measure even to be considered in committee, it must have at least 67 co-sponsors — two-thirds of the full Senate. The count is getting closer and closer. [Donald H. Harrison]
Psychologist Advocates for Recognition of The Ghost Army Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
Published by The Kansas City Star TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Republican leaders rejected comparisons of COVID-19 vaccine requirements to the Holocaust Friday after a former Kansas City, Kansas, mayoral candidate donned a yellow star to testify on the Legislature’s plans to resist federal rules. Two statements, posted to social media by Senate President Ty Masterson
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