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U.S. expands effort to allow in vulnerable migrants at Mexico border

Published by Reuters By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States has begun rolling out a new system to identify and admit the most vulnerable migrants at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three people briefed on the matter. The new system, which started at […]

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California Legislative Jewish Caucus Tells Priorities

Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) and Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the Chair and Vice Chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, announced Thursday the Caucus’ 2021 legislative priorities. Selected by the membership, the legislative package includes four Jewish Caucus Priority Bills, which address key Jewish community priorities, as well as a slate of nine Tikkun Olam Bills, which speak to core Jewish values, including tzedek (justice) and ve’ahavta lere’acha kamocha (loving the stranger as yourself). [California Legislative Jewish Caucus]

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San Diego Native Named Director of L.A.’s Skirball Museum

Nearly four decades have rushed by since the day that Sheri L. Bernstein served as a high school docent at the San Diego Museum of Art, during which she learned all she could about one of the paintings on exhibit and recited to visitors what she knew. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

White supremacist who killed 3 at Jewish sites in Kansas dies in prison

Published by The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A white supremacist who killed three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas, in 2014 has died in prison, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. F. Glenn Miller Jr., convicted of capital murder in 2015, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

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U.S. spike in domestic terrorism ‘keeps me up at night,’ attorney general says

Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Congress on Tuesday to provide more funding for investigating and prosecuting domestic terrorism, saying it poses an “accelerating” threat that keeps him up at night. Garland, who had served as a federal appellate judge and federal prosecutor before President Joe Biden nominated him

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B’Tselem’s Anti-Israel Report Gets the Facts Wrong

South Africa’s apartheid laws mandated Black South Africans to use separate, often inferior facilities like public restrooms, public transport, beaches, schools, et cetera.  B’Tselem claims that a comparable system of inequality exists between Arabs and Jews, both within Israel proper and the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This is simply false. [Benjamin Zaghi]

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Asian-American leaders launch foundation to counter hate

Published by AFP New York (AFP) – Responding to a wave of recent hate crimes, Asian American leaders unveiled a new philanthropic group Monday funded so far at some $250 million to counter discrimination. Calling itself the Asian American Foundation, the group said it was undertaking “largest philanthropic commitment in history by Asian Americans fully

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Israeli Officers Are Wrong to Ask for U.S. Intervention

Military officers in democratic countries have a difficult mission: to protect the people and to wage war at the command of their governments. It isn’t easy, and the IDF – like the United States military – has an admirable record. Occasionally however, military officers glide off into politics. A group of retired Israel officers, Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS), appears to be doing that – which normally would be an issue only for Israelis and their government. But this group is asking the United States to create circumstances they believe serve their country but are not being pursued to their satisfaction by their own government. [Shoshana Bryen]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA