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(Tune: Row, Row, Row, Your Boat) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Roe, Roe, Roe, your vote. Pack the Supreme Court. Scarily, scarily, scarily, scarily. No crime to abort! Roe, Roe, Roe, your vote. Inflation is a curse. Warily, warily, warily, warily. The GOP is worse. Roe, Roe, Roe, your vote. We can’t afford to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Essentials of the Land of Israel, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London, ©2022, ISBN 978-1-91267-686-6, p. 186, plus biography and index, $69.75. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Anyone perusing the table of contents of Essentials of the Land of Israel by Brandon Marlon, a prolific, award-winning Canadian-Israeli author, would correctly conclude the book’s value
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East, Travel and Food
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows
Who Actually Wrote the Harvard Crimson’s Pro-BDS Editorial? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s parasha, Kedoshim, sums up an all-encompassing responsibility we have: “Kedoshim tihyu, ki kadosh ani Hashem Elokeichem,” translated as, “Be holy, for I, Hashem your Lord am holy.” Rashi tells us that most of the Torah depends on this parasha. Is that why it’s in the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Alex Gordon, Ph.D HAIFA, Israel — The Jews came out of Egypt long ago, they came out of the Soviet Union, but they did not go out of fashion at all: at every stage of history someone was bound to seek to throw them into the sea. The Jews, however, had already been to
Democracy from the Perspective of a Native of a Totalitarian State: From Kiev to Israel Read More »
Alex Gordon, International, OpinionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Now that the low hanging fruit of blatantly perverted and racist books have been banned by school boards in many states, it’s time to start evaluating the deleterious impact that the most frequently assigned books by schools have on the impressionable minds of tweens and teenagers. The Bible: Contains
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
The “christening” ceremony featured a principal ceremonial address by Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, as well as remarks by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro; Vice Admiral Jeffrey Hughes, deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development; and Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer, commander of the Military Sealift Command. Sponsors of the ship were U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with Milk, and Paula Neira, clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health. Neira shattered a bottle of sparkling wine across the ship’s bow in a time-honored Navy tradition. [Donald H. Harrison]
Assassinated Gay Jewish Political Leader Harvey Milk Is Honored by the U.S. Navy Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Celebrities, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Today, April 29, 2022, was a bellringing day for me at the Jacobs Medical Center at UCSD Health Sciences. I completed a 33-day course of radiation in the hope of arresting a meningioma that was growing on top of my brain. On July 1, I will have an MRI to learn how well the treatment worked. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Dr. Emily Michelson, senior lecturer in history at the University of St. Andrews, describes the over two and a half centuries when the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Italy, forced Rome’s Jews to attend weekly hostile sermons. The Church’s aim was to convert the Jews to
Centuries of Despicable Behavior Against Jews Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — We all make decisions in our lives. Someone like me (i.e., a very old person) has had to make decisions at many points in my life — what to study, whom to marry, where to work, where to live, whether to have another child, what to cook for
The Road Not Taken Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Holocaust, International, Middle East, Opinion
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Not everyone gets to have his birthday parade in Heritage Park in Old Town, San Diego, and enjoy performances in his honor. But then again, the Bard is not just anybody! William Shakespeare’s birthday and his accomplishments are the focus of the 17th Annual San Diego Shakespeare Festival.
San Diego Shakespeare Festival Encourages Students to Recreate Famed Scenes Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Jerry Klinger The words together will offend someone, perhaps more than just one someone. The Holocaust was a horror that converted millions of Jews into mincemeat. Operation Mincemeat was an impossibly successful British military operation that saved at least a million Jews from being exterminated. April 24, in Hackney, London, a black polished historical
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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish HistoryBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Looks like I may soon have the same challenge as an antisemitic co-worker years ago at a medical publishing company in New Jersey, all thanks to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). I was passing through a hallway when my uncollegial colleague blurted out to a small crowd that she
Muslim ‘Lioness’ Growls at the Christians Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion, USABy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — About a month ago, we read in parasha Shemini about the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. This Shabbos, in Parasha Acharei Mos, once again, the Torah takes the time to mention their deaths. In this week’s parasha, Aaron and his family are forbidden to mourn their loss,
Parashat Acharei Mos: The Value of Tears Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell