Antisemitism has reached a tipping point in America, threatening American Jews and casting an ominous shadow across our society. [Ted Deutch, American Jewish Committee]
Survey: 77% of U.S. Jews Feel Less Safe in U.S. in Post-Oct. 7th Era Read More »
Antisemitism, Israel, Lifestyles, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. [Wikipedia]
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Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia
The recently brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is facing a critical point as Hamas says it will not release the hostages. If Hamas does as it says, Israel will rightfully resume a full war. [Miriam Gershenson]
Ceasefire or War Resumption? Next Few Days Will Tell Read More »
Israel, Miriam Gershenson, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Chronic stress is known to impact learning and decision-making, but could it also affect how we hear? [Press Release]
Chronic Stress May Change the Way Some People Hear Read More »
Israel, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education
Hours after attending a birthday gathering for Tifereth Israel Synagogue’s Sisterhood members who were celebrating their February birthdays, Rosalind Allina and her husband James — Roz, 77, and Jim, 79 — were killed in a chain-reaction freeway accident. [Donald H. Harrison]
Couple from Tifereth Israel Synagogue Killed in I-8 Pile-Up Monday Night Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food
When his father gives 6-year-old Moses some pocket change, the boy, without knowing he is doing so, starts up the eight rungs of the charitable-giving ladder as defined by Maimonides. [Donald H. Harrison]
Boy Learns about 8 Rungs of Charity’s Ladder in ‘More Than Enough’ Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Resembling a young Gene Wilder, Ben Ducoff plays the genial high school teacher, Barry Bernstein, in the madcap indie movie he co-wrote, Yaniv. Directing the film is Ben’s friend and colleague, Amnon Carmi, who also has a cameo role as the Rabbi. [Eileen Wingard]
‘Yaniv’ Closes San Diego International Jewish Film Festival Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
With these changes and the cancellation of federal funding, the Migrant Shelter Services component of our Welcome the Stranger work is paused as we continue to better understand future community needs. Also, as part of these changes in federal funding and policy, Monday, we informed shelter services staff with 60 days’ notice. [Michael Hopkins and Dana Toppel]
Jewish Family Service Pauses Migrant Shelter Service, Gives 60-Day Notice to Staff Read More »
San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
President Trump’s vision of an eastern Mediterranean resort to rival the Riviera exposed the scope of the dangers in Gaza. He would have been better off letting his concept stay in Vegas, or Palm Beach. The very act of talking about it during a news conference last week, on Tuesday, could trigger greater hazards. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Trump’s Gaza Plan Roils the Middle East Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy. Some Jewish philosophers, rabbis, and non-Jews disagreed over what exactly the Bible was saying in these statements. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
What Do the Ten Commandments Really Say? Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. [Wikipedia]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Today's Jewish Birthday, Wikipedia
You say you love the constitution.
You should know Article 2 isn’t absolute.
Check and balance dissolution.
You should know Article One isn’t moot. … (Laurie Baron)
Satire: Unconstitutional (Melody: Revolution) Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump and one of the architects of the Abraham Accords, may not have ever existed were it not for the daring escape by his grandmother Raya in September 1943 from a forced labor camp run by the Nazis in Novogrudok in today’s Belarus. [Donald H. Harrison]
Kushner Family’s Holocaust Saga Included in ‘Tunnel of Hope’ Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Other Desert Cities at Cygnet theater is the story of family members grappling with secrets from their past. Writer Brooke Wyeth (Melanie Lora) comes home to Palm Springs after finishing her second book. Only this time her book isn’t a novel, it’s a memoir and it’s focused on the hardest time in her family’s history, when her brother committed suicide after being implicated in an anti-war protest turned deadly. [Sandi Masori]
Drama Concerns Family Members’ Reactions to a Memoir Spilling Their Secrets Read More »
California, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast