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The ‘Body and Soul’ of American jazz

“There’s no bum like a ‘pretty good artist’ and I think you’re ‘pretty good.’” –Johnny Green’s father By Eric George Tauber LA JOLLA, California –The 2017 San Diego Jewish Film Festival has come and gone. With eighty different screenings at five venues –with filmmakers traveling from as far as Hungary and Israel- and selling more […]

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Miami-Dade mayor says of sanctuary change: ‘I did a lot less than you thought I did’

MIAMI — Before a national television audience, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez minimized reversing county policy for extending the detentions of county inmates sought for deportation by federal authorities. During a brief appearance on a Fox News town hall in Ponte Vedra on immigration under President Donald Trump, Gimenez defended his controversial directive to undo a

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Richmond, Calif., leaders unanimously vote in favor of Donald Trump’s impeachment

The City Council in Richmond, California, unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for Congress to consider impeaching President Trump. Though largely symbolic, passage of the resolution means the Bay Area city will formally recommend that federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee investigate Mr. Trump with respect to whether the president’s international business

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Cyprus President calls Israel a ‘natural partner’

NICOSIA, Cyprus (Press Release) — The President of Cyrus, Nicos Anastasiades, on Wednesday delivered a forceful address to an almost 100-member delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visiting the country as part of the Conference’s 43rd Annual Leadership Mission to Israel. Describing the relationship between Cyprus and Israel, the President declared,

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ADL receives bomb threat at NYC headquarters

  NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday received an anonymous bomb threat called into its national headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. After a careful investigation and cooperation with law enforcement, it has been determined that the threat was not credible. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: “Today, our national headquarters in

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Former Latvian president Vīķe-Freiberga to aid AJC’s office opening in Central Europe

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) announced on Wednesday that Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former president of Latvia (1999-2007), will keynote its gala to launch the AJC Central Europe office on Monday, March 27, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The gala evening is the centerpiece of a

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Menorah dispute, JCC bomb scare roil community

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A bomb scare delayed the opening of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Tuesday, the same day local newspapers reported a dispute between the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot over the former’s request for permission to erect a menorah on the base

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Trump finally denounces anti-Semitic attacks, but is it enough?

WASHINGTON — Days after he declined to denounce anti-Semitism, President Donald Trump finally condemned the reported increase in anti-Semitism in the United States that has been linked to his political rise. But it wasn’t enough. Trump was immediately pressed to speak more forcefully about the issue and to take specific steps to tackle hate crime

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DHS cancels Obama policies, orders agents to expand deportations

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly officially ordered federal agents this week to begin arresting and deporting more illegal immigrants, releasing them from the handcuffs the Obama administration had imposed, and making headway on one of President Trump’s chief campaign promises. While young adult illegal immigrant “Dreamers” are still exempted, agents were told there are

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