Trustee Shana Hazan announced Thursday that she is the only candidate to qualify for election to the San Diego Unified School Board District B seat, marking the first time there will be no primary election for a San Diego Unified School Board seat. [Press Release]
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Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, step forward with their own fire pans, offering “strange fire” (esh zarah) which God had not commanded. Within seconds, they are dead. The music stops. The joy evaporates. In the center of the camp, there is only smoke and a father staring at the bodies of his sons. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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When we rush to explain pain, we tend to distort it. We personalize what isn’t fully ours. We reduce something vast into something manageable, and in doing that, we often make it smaller than it really is. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.]
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Jeff Zucker (April 9, 1965) is an American businessman and media executive. Zucker was the president of CNN Worldwide from 2013 to 2022. [Wikipedia]
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Georgia legislative candidate Nathalie Kanani risked offending Atlanta-area Jews when she took out a Passover ad that featured a loaf of challah which was decidedly leavened. In Connecticut’s Fairfield County, a bunch of spoiled rich Catholic high school students proclaimed “at least we are not Jews.” [Bruce Ticker}
The giant Roaring Lion, about 24 feet in length, approximately 10 feet at the shoulder, stood on a 10-foot stone and sand platform. The powerful sculpted lion is the biggest in the Middle East. [Jerry Klinger]
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animals, Israel, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and FoodWhile the national media often treats the intersection of Black and Jewish identities as a modern novelty, the history of Jews of Color in the Americas is centuries deep. Long before the term “bridge-building” became a social justice buzzword, individuals were living at this intersection, weaving together the traditions of two resilient peoples. I am one of them. [Barrett Holman Leak]
Black/ Jewish solidarity required to defeat racism, antisemitism Read More »
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The film focuses on the formative years of the Los Angeles-based rock/funk/alternative band Red Hot Chili Peppers and highlights the lasting impact of their original guitarist, Hillel Slovak, who tragically passed away in 1988 at just 26 years old. [Cailin Acosta]
Documentary memorializes Hillel Slovak of the Red-Hot Chili Peppers Read More »
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Seymour Hersh (April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. [Wikipedia]
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Crunch, crunch, crunch. Most people are looking forward to returning to eating chametz and saying goodbye to the matzah. [Cailin Acosta]
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Multiple sessions organized by “Geographers for Justice in Palestine” promoted efforts to boycott Israeli academia and featured presentations that were overwhelmingly one-sided. Sessions such as “BDS and the AAG,” “Mapping and Counter-Mapping Genocide,” and “No Geographic Technology for Apartheid” raised particular concern. (Press Release)
ADL, AEN rap Palestinian bias of the American Association of Geographers Read More »
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Flipping gender perspectives, Ludwig switched up his previous play, Lend Me a Tenor, to tell the story of The Cleveland Grand Opera and their one-night production of Carmen. Lucille Wiley (Wendy Waddell), manager of the company, is elated to welcome the arrival of opera diva of global renown, Elena Firenzi (Britania Cortez). [Eva Trieger]
From the female perspective: ‘Lend Me a Soprano’ Read More »
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Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. [Wikipedia]
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Right before the curtain goes up, there is a voice that tells us that the actors bear an uncanny resemblance to the real Matt and Ben, and they think so too. But once the curtain goes up, you realize the interesting casting choice made by director Maria Patrice Amon, using two women for the parts of both Matt and Ben. [Sandi Masori]
‘Matt and Ben’: A gender-bending production at the New Village Arts Theatre Read More »
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