By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Like anybody else old enough, I remember when President John F. Kennedy was slain, fifty-four years ago today, November 22, 1963. And I also remember Dr. Glanzberg frightfully clutching his loaf of fresh rye bread. Our tiny Hebrew day school suddenly sent us home just before two o’clock—exactly […]
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USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The New York Times suspended White House correspondent Glenn Thrush on Monday after an expose with numerous women accusing him of acting inappropriately and making unwanted sexual advances on them. According to the Vox report, Thrush crossed boundaries with a number of women, including groping and kissing young female journalists
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USASen. Al Franken showed no sign of giving up his Senate seat Monday, even as calls on the left for him to resign intensified following a second allegation of sexual harassment. Leading progressive groups Indivisible and CREDO Action joined Justice Democrats and UltraViolet in urging the Minnesota Democrat to resign after another woman, Lindsay Menz,
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USAMINNEAPOLIS — CNN on Monday reported that a second woman is accusing Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of unwanted sexual touching, with this alleged encounter occurring after he was elected. The national news network says it was contacted by 33-year-old Lindsay Menz, of Texas, and she is accusing Franken of grabbing her buttocks while posing together
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USASouth Korea and Japan have welcomed a move by the United States to redesignate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism in order to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government. South Korea’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it sees the decision “as part of the international community’s joint efforts to take North
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International, USAEight women came forward with claims of sexual harassment against CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose, according to a report released on Monday by The Washington Post. The women—Reah Bravo, Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, Megan Creydt—and five others who only agreed to speak with The Washington Post on conditions of anonymity, recalled the 75-year-old making unwanted sexual
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAVeteran broadcaster Charlie Rose was suspended by CBS News on Monday following a Washington Post report that he sexually harassed eight women who worked on his PBS talk show . Rose, 75, acknowledges and apologizes for the behavior recounted in the Post investigation, which details unwanted sexual advances towards the women, appearing nude in their
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration”s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot (formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2035177] Anthony Scaramucci, who has served as White House Communications Director for the Trump Administration, arrived in Israel on Sunday night, and is spending several days in Jerusalem. After landing, he toured the Western Wall and the Old City. This morning (Monday) he arrived at Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. Tonight he is slated to
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Middle East, USABy Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch In March of this year, a small group of Jewish philanthropists, activists and thinkers from Israel and around the world met at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. The conclusions that followed, summarized below, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the opinion
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−First, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted an Obama-era ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia. President Trump initially agreed with the new policy but changed his mind because at first he thought the Obama policy banned the importation of trophy wives from Eastern
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Arm-twisting Israel by liberal and Progressive American Jews is threatening the delicate and vital bonds that link the two major Jewish communities. Oblivious to the consequences of creating dissension and unwilling to accept Israel’s separate and sovereign status, some Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders seem to be engaging in a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, November 20, 2017 – Charles Manson is dead. The man who masterminded one of the most heinous murder sprees in American history died 8:13 PM Sunday. Deborah Tate, a sister to Manson’s victim Sharon Tate, tells TMZ the prison is contacting all of the victim’s families. Manson has been in prison since his arrest
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USA77 Miles of Jewish Stories; History, Anecdotes and Tales of Travel Along I-8 by Donald H. Harrison; Create Space, 2017, 338 pages including index, $19.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The 70 chapters of this book appeared originally as individual articles in various editions of San Diego Jewish World, the website edited by
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