By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Invoking his “great love” for his family, the Jewish people and Israel –“I can say the word now” – President Trump planned to sign an executive order establishing a national Ten Commandments Day in honor of Shavuot. He wants to make the holiday “great again,” he said. But […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I never read the book Moby Dick in my youth. Now that I have more time, I decided to read it in my dotage. I failed miserably. Even though Moby Dick is considered one of the greatest works of American literature, I found it ponderous and boring. When
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish ReligionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I was in the ninth month of my first pregnancy when the Six Day War broke out, fifty years ago. I have written in some detail about this point in my life in my first novel, The Balancing Game, so if you have read it I apologize for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle EastWashington (dpa) – The US Department of Justice said Thursday it will appeal a ruling upholding a suspension of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to the US Supreme Court. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the decision in a statement after a US appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling blocking Trump’s executive order which bans
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International, USAAfter last summer’s historic four-country tour through East Africa, PM now heading to June 4 economic summit in Liberia By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, board their airplane to Africa for an official state visit in the continent on July 4, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO) Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu
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Middle East, USABERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley has fired an assistant professor for sexually harassing four students. Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, was found to have violated the school’s faculty code of conduct and its sexual harassment policy, the school said. The firing, effective immediately, apparently ends
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATAORMINA, Italy — While terrorism may top President Donald Trump’s agenda, European leaders keep pressing him on climate change and the environment. French President Emmanuel Macron worked on Trump during lunch Thursday, urging the U.S. president not to ditch the 196-nation Paris Agreement on climate change before getting on a plane to Sicily, Italy. “My
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International, USABrussels (dpa) – US President Donald Trump’s interactions with his NATO and EU counterparts were under scrutiny as he met many of them for the first time in Brussels on Thursday – and some of those first impressions will be hard to forget. During a tour of the recently completed NATO headquarters building, Trump seems
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International, USANormally the words “Montana Special Election” don’t set the political class refreshing their browsers into the middle of the night. But Thursday’s Republican victory for an open House of Representatives seat turned out to be a hyper-interpreted microcosm of America’s crazy national moment, complete with a “body slam” that sent a reporter to the hospital.
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Take two Canadian offspring of Holocaust survivors, Moses Znaimer and Hindy Nosek-Abelson, and put them in Toronto TV studio and the result will be the first-ever Yiddish translation and group performance of Canada’s national anthem “O Canada” just in time for Canada Day on July 1st, which celebrates
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International, Jewish HistoryWhat plus Why Is Unstoppable! By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — “And G-d spoke to Moshe and Aaron, saying: Each man under his flag with the signs according to the house of their fathers they will camp, at a distance and around the Tabernacle they will camp.” (Numbers 2:1-2) The Midrash Rabbah (Numbers 2:7)
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Jewish Religion, Travel and FoodSHA’AR BINYAMIN, Israel (Press Release) – This Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), the first major medical facility in Samaria. The BMC will address an unmet need for medical care for the more 75,000 Israelis living in 45 communities in the Binyamin region, and for tens of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage
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International, The World We Share, USACHICAGO — Harold Katz didn’t require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette, Ill. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side retirement home, was to have celebrated the occasion in Czechoslovakia back in 1941. But that
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