By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –When it comes to translating science fiction novels from France, Japan or other non-English speaking nations, the U.S. publishing industry has a rather dismal track record. Yes, Tor Books published in 2014 a popular sci-fi novel from communist China by Cixin Liu, titled The Three-Body Problem and not only did
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — To what did Ronald Reagan attribute his strong negative feelings about anti-Semitism? A. He credited his father, John Reagan, a traveling salesman, who told of checking into a hotel while on a sales trip. The clerk said to Mr. Reagan, “I’m sure you’ll enjoy it here; we don’t allow any
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –Hi everybody! I’m back!You might have noticed that my column of theater reviews hasn’t appeared for a few months. It’s because I’ve had a couple of serious falls: one that broke my leg and another that demolished my shoulder. But, happily, I’ve recovered enough to wobble off to the theater again, and so
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama are having their first meeting today since the passage of the US-Iranian Nuclear Deal. The venue has been changed from the White House to a nearby boxing ring. As a gesture of reconciliation, Netanyahu demanded his new media spokesman Ron Baratz retract his derogatory statements
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ronald Lauder NEW YORK (WJC) Seventy-seven years ago tonight, the entire world faced one of history’s great moral tests. It failed miserably. On 9 November 1938, Adolf Hitler set loose the darkest impulses of mankind in a brutal attack that raged across Germany and Austria. It was called Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass,
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International, Jewish HistoryArab Knesset member compares Israelis to Nazis at Kristallnacht memorial (JNS.org) Arab Member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List), who has a well-documented history of anti-Israel rhetoric, on Sunday compared Israeli government policies to those exercised by the Nazis in the 1930s. Zoabi was speaking in Amsterdam as part of an alternative ceremony organized
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MORAGA, California — Our never ending search for Jewish-interest license plates brought us to the East San Francisco Bay Area where David Harrison spotted this one. Whoever the driver is, we wish him or her good health too!
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Trivia, Humor & SatireThanks to J.J. Surbeck, Charles Wax for spotting this. JJ Surbeck writes: Our good friend Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, whom we know for her exemplary work as activist and coordinator extraordinaire in her fight against anti-Semitism within the University of California system, is also, let’s not forget, first and foremost a scholar. And she reminded us of
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsMiddle East migrants and European right, left, have one thing in common: Anti-Semitism By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — As a million anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist migrants flood Europe they find a host continent in support of their anti-Israel passion. As Jews commemorate Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi brown-shirts burnt Jewish books, burnt down synagogues
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Barry Shaw, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We’ve heard time and again that the Internet and its social sites are changing the nature of politics. People seeking change post their ideas, observations, and schemes without editorial monitoring, including the barbarians who use videos of beheadings to expand recruitment. Currently we are seeing that Facebook postings are tripping an aspiring
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; St. Martin’s Press, 2015 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I picked this book up in the local bookshop thinking it would make good holiday reading. It did, but it’s not exactly the sort of light reading one takes along to read on the beach. The tale it tells of France under German
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The Framers of the U.S. Constitution wanted to create a national government to strengthen the unity of the disparate States so that foreign entities looking at us would see a united face – the United States. Diversity may supply the building blocks, but it is not diversity that makes
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JERUSALEM–Israel’s fifth president, Yitzhak Navon, died on Friday, Nov. 6, at the age of 94. He served as Israel’s president from 1978 to 1983. In New York, The World Jewish Congress issued a statement: “We extend our condolences to Yitzhak Navon’s widow, and to his children and grandchildren. His life story reflects the history of the
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