By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — In a rare instance of studying applicable law and history – (okay, Ivanka read the passages to him) — President Trump has learned that there are hardly any requirements for someone to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Unlike standards for U.S. president, senator or member of […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Take your pick. Should we begin with Sara Natanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, or Donald Trump? A prominent good government activist, Eliad Shraga, has been quoted in The Jerusalem Post. “The truth that nobody wants to say must be spoken . . . That woman is probably not mentally fit to stand
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps it is my bias, but sometimes I think that rabbis should often talk about the lessons drawn from their own lives and not only about the morals we should glean from the legends of such rabbis of old as Shammai, Hillel, and Tarfon. This is not to
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
SAN DIEGO — Jennifer Meltzer, Program Coordinator for the Lawrence Family JCC’s Neirman Preschool, has just been awarded a Sheva Leadership Institute Fellowship. Meltzer will join a cohort of 31 fellows from Early Childhood Education programs at JCCs throughout North America. This important honor for outstanding educators involves a three-year commitment, during which there will
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14. The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
JCC Association of North America gratified by conviction of Israeli who made multiple bomb threats A Tel Aviv District Court convicted 19-year-old Michael Ron David Kadar, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Thursday on multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, for the hundreds of bomb threats he made against Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the United States
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Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent furore over Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in enclosures that have been likened to cages, seems in the end to have brought out the best in American society. After all, virtually all Americans, Trump included, can trace their roots
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, USASAN DIEGO — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative brings together professors and researchers in Israel and San Diego for joint projects. Recently the organization named in honor of the late philanthropist and San Diego Jewish community leader Murray Galinson listed four of these projects in an email advisory. SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Polish mayors pledge themselves against anti- Semitism Mayors of Polish cities, attending the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) Central Europe conference in Warsaw on combating hate, have issued a joint statement urging implementation of a policy of “zero tolerance for prejudice, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.” The statement, signed by the mayors of Bialystok, Gdańsk, Poznań, and Warsaw,
Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 28, 2018 (10 items) Read More »
International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release) — The State of California appropriated $3.6 million to create the California Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, the first California-funded program that ensures that Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives with dignity. The proposal for the program was initiated and stewarded by Jewish Family Service of San Diego, in partnership
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San Diego County, USA
Poland revises its law on Holocaust responsibility The American Jewish Committee has welcomed the action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law. “As long-time friends of Poland, correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Tuesday released a new policy paper that provides guidelines to assess the prospects for success of an impending Trump administration plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. “We are gravely concerned that the Trump peace plan will exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than move it toward resolution.
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International, Middle East, USA
Supreme Court’s 5-4 ‘Travel Ban’ decision saw Jewish justices in the minority In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order Number One which the administration describes as a ban of travel from countries which have insufficient vetting procedures against terrorists, and which opponents describe as a “Muslim ban,” as most
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not easy writing about the American President. Intellectual honesty requires the admission that there are some plusses among many minuses, or at least some aspects of his behavior that might merit praise, depending on one’s perspective. His recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his criticism of Palestinians compares
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA