Remembering Jacques Lipchitz
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born this day (August 22) in 1891.
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Worry over U.S. – Israel relations after Bibi, after Trump
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it possible that the U.S. president, considered by many to be more supportive of Israel than any of his predecessors, uses the terminology of anti-Semites? Have his Jewish daughter and her family not sensitized him to the fact that to question the loyalty of Jews has been the
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Middle East, USARabbi/ Cantor Arlene Bernstein’s spiritual journey
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As Arlene Bernstein became less and less “observant”of halacha in her religious practice, she became more and more deeply involved in Jewish life. Today she is a cantor as well as a rabbi. And for the next year, she is serving as the Acting Senior Rabbi of the
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA‘Bus Station Project’ migrates across the border
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California – After President Donald Trump’s administration began enforcing its “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, the flow of migrants arriving at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown San Diego was reduced to a trickle. This posed a big question – what to do now? — for the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, USAJewish groups generally pan Trump’s loyalty comment
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — American Jewish organizations were generally critical of President Donald Trump’s comment suggesting that given some of the pro-Palestinian sentiment in the Democratic party activists, Jews who vote for Democrats are either ignorant or disloyal. In alphabetical order, here are some of the commentaries that have been sent to
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USASome facts that may upset Rashida Tlaib
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rashida Tlaib was in tears over the conditions in which her grandmother lives in the West Bank, and furious that her mother, an American citizen, was forced to go through a “checkpoint” from Israel once in order to visit her. “As a young girl, visiting Palestine to see my
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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAButterfly Project stirs hope, remembrance
-Last in a series- By Nicole Nocon COTTBUS, Germany — When my friend Steven Schindler of San Diego first asked me if we should bring The Butterfly Project to my daughter’s school in Cottbus, Germany, I would never have dreamt of what this initiative would set in motion. Steven is the son of the Holocaust
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAFrom swastikas to butterflies
How do we make the Holocaust accessible to students? What’s at stake, for them, for us, for the world? But equally important, what can we learn from working with one another? – Sondra Perl -Second in a series- By Maren Oom Galarpe SAN DIEGO — As an arts educator and perpetual student of life, I
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USALa Jolla’s Uriel Green makes Aliyah
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — As a student at Southern California Yeshiva (SCY) High, La Jolla native Uriel Green would often hear from alumni who returned to the school to speak to current students about their experiences living in Israel and serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Green, 19, will soon count
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, San Diego County, USAJewish- interest license plate: Klutz
David Harrison spotted this license plate in the San Francisco Bay Area. The owner of the car obviously has a healthy self-deprecating sense of humor. (Photo: Shor M. Masori)
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Shor M. Masori, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAHappy birthday Andy Samberg
Comedian Andy Samberg was born this day (August 18) in 1978.
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USATlaib, Omar should have been shown the real Israel
By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — In the introduction to his 1983 novel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which really means, the Israeli response to Palestinian terrorism, John le Carré talks about how he went about researching The Little Drummer Girl. He tried to speak with the PLO representative in London,
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Middle East, USATlaib’s ‘grandma’ claim hypocritical
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It’s curious that U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would travel to a country – namely, Israel – that they suggest replicates Nazi Germany. Of course, Israel is no Nazi Germany. No concentration camps, no gas chambers, no fuhrers, no German-style ghettoes, no storm troopers, no boxcars
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Middle East, USAHappy birthday Norm Coleman
Former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn., was born this day (August 17) in 1949.
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