The Jewish comedians: Rachel Dratch
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Travel and Food‘Cli-fi’ in the classroom
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – In the usual way I meet most people these days, I met Elizabeth (Berg ) Trobaugh the other day via an email she sent me from her office in western Massachusetts where she is a professor of English at Holyoke Community College. Her email arrived out of the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationIndustry leader says Jews should speak up about Iran
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USAAJC: Boteach owes Rice an apology
NEW YORK (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris on Sunday, March 1, issued the following statement regarding a full-page ad in the Feb. 28 edition of the New York Times, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, assailing U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice: “As AJC said in a tweet yesterday, this ad was ‘way
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Middle East, USAFrom the Jewish Library: Island of hope, tears
Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island by David Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, Douglass Brownstone, (MetroBooks, 2004). By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–The word “immigrant” brings to mind a picture of a woman with a lined face, head covered by a babushka (scarf), holding a wide
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Jewish History, USABibi speech just a blip in U.S.- Israel alliance
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Israeli media have reported recently on another secretly recorded conversation between Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, the wife of the prime minister, and the spouse of the former mayor of Sderot, the town that was hit by many of the Hamas rockets last year. The ex-mayor had apparently criticized the prime minister,
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Middle East, USANetanyahu dominates election coverage
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For a political scientist committed to the view that democratic politics is the essence of civilization, an election campaign can be a difficult test. The one we are experiencing, like some others I’ve seen, brings out the worst in those aspiring to national leadership. It’s not like an academic seminar
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABlack & blue; gold & white, and HaShem’s hidden hand
By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California — Did you hear? What color is the dress? Black and blue or white and gold? I am still enamored by the stark difference. (Here’s a link to the phenomenon:https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-why-people-cant-agree-on-the-color-of-112191281639.html# ) How is possible? When I saw it recently, I said it’s black and blue. But some of my family
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Jewish ReligionFive actresses speak of life’s highs and lows at Lyceum
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO–When the Ephron sisters penned Love, Loss and What I Wore, they kept true to form. Though many of the lines produce audience laughter, there is an underlying thread of the many disappointments suffered through the fabric of the ages and stages of a woman’s life. Melinda Gilb has appeared on
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Travel and FoodAJC mourns Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, one of the most influential American Catholic leaders of our time, who died Feb. 26 at the age of 97. He distinguished himself as a renowned educator and spiritual leader, as a staunch defender of civil rights and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAADL condemns ad attacking Susan Rice
NEW YORK (Press Release)… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly criticized an ad in Saturday’s (Feb 28) New York Times calling National Security Advisor Susan Rice “blind” to genocide. The full page ad, placed by This World: The Values Network run by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, runs through a litany of personal attacks on Ambassador Rice’s character
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Middle East, USA12 groups ask UCLA to address anti- Semitism
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – StandWithUs initiated the following letter to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in reaction to an incident in which a candidate for the UCLA Judicial Board was asked if being Jewish presented her with a conflict of interest. The questioners later apologized, but the 12 organizations below seek additional measures. February 20,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe return to San Diego of Yoav Talmi
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Yoav Talmi, one of Israel’s foremost composers and conductors, will be speaking during services at Ohr Shalom Synagogue, 3rd and Laurel, in San Diego, next Friday evening, March 6, 7:30 p.m. His talk will be: “From the Diary of an International Israeli Conductor.” Talmi, former conductor of the San Diego
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