By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — It was June, 27, 1976, forty three years ago. The Palestine Liberation Organization and radical left-wing Germans hijacked an Air France flight in Athens, refueled in Libya, and landed at Entebbe airport in Uganda. There, the syphilitic president, Idi Amin,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAIn honor of cellist Raphael Wallfisch’s birth on this day in 1953.
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — One of the Facebook groups I belong to is called ‘Brits Whingeing in Israel’ (motto: ‘Lose some, whinge some’), having split off from ‘Brits Laughing in Israel,’ which in turn split off from ‘Brits Living in Israel.’ The politics behind the various groups and sub-groups is not clear
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThe Weekly Teeter By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Democratic National Committee winnowed down the field of its presidential candidates to twenty to participate in two debates of ten at a time. The DNC has decided to hold the debates on the old set of Hollywood Squares enabling each candidate to have a bathroom break while
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) surprised and mollified a restive crowd of environmentalists Saturday when she announced that when she returns to Washington for Tuesday’s congressional session she will “be signing onto the Green New Deal.” Her announcement was greeted with 16 seconds of applause, which might
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USA
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven Melanie Rubin noticed this license plate, which prompts us to speculate about where Queen Esther lived before she married King Ahashuerus. Did she live in central Shushan, west Shushan, or maybe as this license plate might be suggesting, East Shushan.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — For years family and friends have been urging me to write my autobiography. It always felt like such a daunting task, so I kept postponing even the idea of it. After a few columns about my early years in Paris and Beverly Hills were published, I was encouraged
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Travel and Food, USA
By Irvin H. Jacobs, MD, MPH, MFA LA JOLLA, California — This week’s portion (Naso) offers up two topics of some mischief and humor. The first is the “Judicial Water Ordeal,” (Numbers Ch. 5) ostensibly to deal with suspected unwitnessed adultery by wives. The two situations covered are respectively: a rumored affair that reaches the
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish ReligionBy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK –In Burbank, California, amidst the famed New York Street sets at Warner Bros, filmmakers are shooting a new film entitled “The Latin from Manhattan,” about the wildly vivacious and roller-coaster life of Vanessa Del Rio – the world’s first Latina adult star. The film is set in the late 1970s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –– StandWithUs commends the US Senate for passing unanimously a Resolution Condemning all forms of antisemitism on June 13, 2019. The resolution was announced five days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., during services marking the end of Passover, murdering a 60-year-old woman, maiming the rabbi and
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — Our Torah portion this week, Naso, describes the somewhat unusual lifestyle choices of a Nazarite. A Nazarite takes a vow of holiness, abstains from drinking alcohol, cutting his hair, and coming into contact with the dead. The vow is for a predetermined finite amount of time. Through abstaining
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Jewish Religion
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San
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