Sometimes the universe has to shake you to your core before you notice the cracks you’ve been ignoring. For me, that moment came this week, not in a war zone or a protest, but in the sterile white of an emergency room, in the form of a kidney failure scare. [Shahar Masori]
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If he were refereeing the match between David and Goliath, he’d side with Goliath. After all, extrapolating Trump’s reasoning means David instigated the losing fight because he picked on someone bigger with a paltry slingshot. [Laurie Baron]
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The famed Sesame Street character Grover relates his bedtime routine in this board book intended for children aged 4 and under. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Every day, when my father left for the factory in the morning, he and my mother were unsure he would return home. Any connection to Judaism could lead to arrest and prison. Circumcision, in particular. But for my grandfathers, a boy not circumcised was as though not yet born as a Jew. [Yakov Nayerman]
Robert Merton Solow (August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. [Wikipedia]
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The prayer acknowledges that there is something bigger than us and that G-d gave us life and can easily take it away. It is a time to acknowledge that one day we will not live to see another day and to be grateful for the day we were blessed with. [Cailin Acosta]
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I believe the Columbia and Brown deals can be used as a blueprint for Trump’s plans for higher education. They show how the government wants to drive cultural reform on campus by giving the government more oversight over universities and imposing punishments for what it sees as previous wrongdoing. [Brendan Cantwell, The Moderate Voice]
Barbara Stone went to a San Diego courthouse to watch ICE agents arresting immigrants. She ended up in handcuffs. [Lillian Perlmutter, Times of San Diego]
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Just this past weekend, NIF grantees mobilized over one million Israelis—the equivalent of all Californians protesting on a US scale—to take to the streets in a national strike demanding an end to the Gaza War and return of the hostages. [Joe Goldman]
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The statistics paint an alarming picture: A shocking 83% of Jewish college students have experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus since October 7, 2023. [Jonathan Greenblatt]
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Philip Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his screenplay for the film Casablanca (1942), which won an Academy Award. [Wikipedia]
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According to a recent article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, “From May to July, San Diegans probably felt the most pain in their wallets at the grocery store, doctor or car lot.” [Dana Toppel]
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But even—and especially—at this fraught and fragile moment, we must stand up and stand firm. We know where our moral north lies: in the courageous hearts and minds of the activists who are standing up for equality, justice, compassion, and, yes, democracy. [Daniel Sokatch]
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This book captures 26 years of correspondence, from 1945 to 1971, between two Holocaust survivors who both wrote trilogies about their experiences of Lodz, Poland before, during, and after World War II. [Donald H. Harrison]
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