Satire: Defacing American passports

The painting of Frances Scott Key on the back cover of the passport has been replaced by John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” to emphasize that the United States doesn’t have to heed anything England wants, particularly when its king lectures Congress about subversive ideas like an independent judiciary, separation of powers, and checks and balances. (Laurie Baron) 

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Jewish visitors do not feel at home any longer in France

I told the butcher that I was Israeli and looking for medical help for my daughter. He found the address of a Jewish pharmacy and directed me there. At the pharmacy, I introduced myself, which caused excitement among the Jewish pharmacists. They were thrilled: we are Jews, we are from Israel, and my grandfather was a pharmacist. Miraculously, a prescription for antibiotics for our daughter appeared. Jewish solidarity worked even when the city was idle. [Alex Gordon]

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Brandeis Center asserts National Education Association discriminates against Jewish members

The NEA’s policies allow and encourage discrimination against Jewish NEA members and erase Jewish members’ identity and shared ancestry, leading to Jewish NEA members being harassed and intimidated by other members in the union. (Press Release)

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Hebrew Free Loan benefitted award-winning Mission Bagel

The award-winning sandwich is a statement of cultural pride. Layering house-sliced gefilte fish, beet horseradish, and cream cheese with a Sephardic charoset of dates, walnuts, and sweet wine, the creation bridges the Ashkenazi and Sephardic flavors of the Jewish diaspora. [Press Release]

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Business & Finance, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, Press Release, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Proposed legislation to gut law protecting Jewish students is killed

The proposed language was never amended into the bill, and it was never referred to a committee, missing Friday’s legislative deadline to advance this session. Yet another effort to undo our hard-earned civil rights has failed, and AB 715 remains the law of California. (David Bocarsly)

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Building at 3rd and Laurel marks a century of service to the Jewish community

After Beth Israel moved in 2001 to a campus in the University City neighborhood, Ohr Shalom moved in, rescuing the historic building from the wrecking ball that preceded intended site redevelopment. The congregations may have changed over the years, but the Jewish heart never left. [Sandi Masori]

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Girl’s family and pets make a discovery on a local beach

One day, when Yoshi, mom, Laggie, and Grillo were beach combing for brightly colored sea glass, they found a shiny green object that stood out from all the other pieces.  When they brought it home, dad said it looked like a gem, more valuable than the others. [Donald H. Harrison]

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‘Alien Girls’ dramatizes how friendships deteriorate as life’s circumstances change

The big reveal is two friends sharing news. Tiffany is pregnant, and what should be a moment of joy instead alienates her best friend, Carolyn. Carolyn’s news of being published in a magazine feels secondary by comparison. She tries to be supportive, but her reaction is more complicated than she can admit even to herself. [Sherrie Rose]

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Scripps Ranch Theatre director Drexler praises San Diego’s cooperation among theatre companies

Currently, SRT is partnering with Roustabouts to produce Noel Coward’s Private Lives. This arrangement is not unusual, and area theatres often share set designers, props, wigmakers. (Eva Trieger)

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Book on I Samuel combines religious scholarship, easy-to-read writing

The book chronicles Israel’s transition from a confederation of tribes led by judges to a united monarchy under kings, covering the lives of Samuel (the last judge), Saul (the first king), and David’s rise to power. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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A Special Mother’s Day of hope: A message gleaned from a very serious wind accident

Suddenly an unexpected gale force wind came along and lifted me from the sidewalk and hurled me 15 feet into the street, right into the path of oncoming traffic. I tried to stand up but my right leg collapsed, feeling like an empty airbag. My hip joint shattered from the fall and I was now stuck on the ground. [Amy Neustein]

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Today’s Jewish birthday: Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”. [Wikipedia]

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