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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A federal judge ruled that the Justice Department cannot prevent an interned undocumented teen from having an abortion. Mike Pence has asked President Trump to issue an executive decree calling for the deportation of undocumented fetuses. * Melania Trump visited a school in Michigan to denounce cyber bullying. When The President […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– The recently ordained Jewish Renewal Rabbi, Cherina Eisenberg, will be speaking at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Thursday evening, Noverber 2. Her topic will be, “B’tzelem Elohim: Seeing the Devine In Our Faces.” This free program is open to all the women of the community. On Saturday morning, November 4, Rabbi Eisenberg will
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – We can thank a Sunday school teacher in Buffalo, New York, for the fact that Donald Chafetz of El Cajon is one of the best-known authorities in the United States on stamps and postal covers of Israel and environs. Chafetz, editor of The Israel Philatelist, an
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Knesset member Yehuda Glick had this to say at the “Jordan is Palestine Conference” held at Menachem Begin Heritage Center on October 17: “The concept of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria doesn’t exist anymore, and anyone who is genuine knows that. It is wrong, dangerous, and not
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California–Famed oceanographer Walter Munk predicted that a beach walkway named for him Wednesday on the eve of his upcoming 100th birthday won’t survive as long as he has unless nations cooperate to fight climate change by converting fossil fuels into renewable energy. At a ceremony at Kellogg Park
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Rex Tillerson refuses to confirm or deny whether he called President Trump a moron. The more important issue is whether President Trump is a moron. I will employ the moronic version of Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck test to determine if Trump is a moron. * He might be a moron if he
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASERET Zion, Israel — A few years ago a friend added me to the mailing list of a British publication that lists books (not ebooks) that are available at a reduced price. The masthead proudly proclaims that it is ‘Britain’s Best Postal Book Bargains.’ And at the side is the royal crest that
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Simchat Torah is a relatively new holiday. Nowhere is it mentioned in the Talmud; nor is it mentioned in Maimonides or the Tur Shulchan Aruch. But it is explicitly mentioned in the Zohar,[1] a work that dates back to about 1270—although it is a holiday that
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASERET ZION, Israel — “Predators.” No, the term doesn’t apply to all men, but it would seem to be a corollary of the power that many men have obtained, by fair means or foul, over women, particularly in the workplace. The recent revelations about the way Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein appears to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The forest fires in Northern California have killed 23 people and destroyed 3,500 homes and businesses. Even though it is not as bad as Katrina or Maria, why hasn’t President Trump visited to console the victims? Unnamed sources say he looked at the electoral map and commented, “It’s so far and
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — It never ceases to surprise me how merely the suggestion that our current global capitalistic system is not the best humanity can do for itself, is so often met with virulent hostility. One would think that when we are still recovering from the economic crisis of 2007-2008 (and many
An alternative to capitalism? Read More »
International, Sam Ben-Meir, USAMy Jerusalem Book by Barbara Shaw, Design and Illustration by Shlomi Gorodetsky, Barbara Shaw Gifts Publishers, Jerusalem, Israel, © 2017, ISBN 978-965-572-210-9, p. 128, $24.90 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Jerusalem is unlike any other city in Israel. It lacks the cotillion atmosphere of Tel Aviv, or the innovative climate of some of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Gun sales have spiked in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre and renewed calls for gun control. In a poll conducted about why people were purchasing more guns now, here are some of the most common responses. * “The Democrats plan to amend the constitution to allow Obama to run
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
He was a nice Yiddish boy. He never smoked or drank. He never physically hurt a soul. He was loyal to those close to him. Some might say the same of Bernie Madoff. — W. Rabinowitz By Jerry Klinger LONDON, England — Napoleon Bonaparte is entombed in a fifteen-foot-tall sarcophagus in the Royal Chapel at
‘The Napoleon of Crime’ in unmarked grave no more Read More »
International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History