By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — You’d think that after 70 years they’d have used up all the possible Holocaust stories. But they keep coming up with new ones. Now, from Poland, the site of the largest and most infamous of Nazi concentration camps (Auschwitz) comes Ida, the story of a Jewish Girl’s coming of […]
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Travel and FoodCompiled by Donald H. Harrison Twenty-three Democrats including Jewish Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky, have signed a letter requesting Speaker of the House John Boehner to postpone Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled March 3 speech to a Joint Session of Congress. Other signers included Keith Ellison (D-MN), Maxine Waters (D-CA)
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Editor’s Note: The following column appeared originally in the Washington Post and later on The American Prospect. It is reprinted with permission. By Harold Myerson WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is giving chutzpah a bad name. Over the past several weeks, Netanyahu has aligned himself and his cause with the Republican Party,
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam (NOI), fronted by notorious hatemonger Louis Farrakhan, is holding its annual convention in Chicago on Sunday, where Farrakhan is expected to address his audience with a message that most likely will include strident anti-Semitic rhetoric. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors the activities of Farrakhan and
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Rabbi David Saperstein, formerly the executive director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was sworn in Friday, Feb. 20, as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Religous Freedom. Following are the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Saperstein at that cremony: SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon to all of
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–At the close of the Summit to Combat Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama gave this address to an international gathering that participated at the U.S. State Department. We come together from more than 60 countries from every continent. We speak different languages, born of different races and ethnic groups, belong to
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– America’s Reform rabbis are making a major effort to change worship to match the needs and desires of today’s Reform Jews. In alignment with trends highlighted by the recent Pew study on American Jews, Reform rabbis are creating a new High Holiday service that makes all prayers LGBT friendly, adds references to God as
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Jewish Religion, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The following predictions of which films will win Oscars this Sunday should not be construed as a list of my favorite films from the previous year. An election by the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences determines the winners. As in any election, they are
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Leaders of NA’AMAT USA joined representatives of the organization from Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Uruguay and Israel last week for the first NA’AMAT International Solidarity Conference in Israel. The delegation, led by national president Elizabeth Raider, were special guests of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin during the conference’s opening
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By Eva Trieger PALM SPRINGS, California — If your fashion acumen consists of “Don’t wear white after Labor Day.” get yourself to Fashion Week at El Paseo! Palm Springs Life magazine is producing the tenth annual week-long event under the direction of Susan Stein. Seven days of fashion, food, music, gorgeous models and international designers is
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — No sooner was the ink dry on a recent column here at the San Diego Jewish World about President Obama’s NASCAR-related remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast than a former religion columnist for the Kansas City Star named Bill Tammeus picked up his own computer keyboard and
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — A baby girl was born on Thursday night, February 19 in Jerusalem during the snowstorm that swept the capital, Golan Heights and other part of northern Israel as well as Judea and Samaria, and even the southern city of Be’er Sheva. In Jerusalem, Magen David Adom (MDA) received a
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Jordanian, 21 Egyptians and 4 Americans sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is not. They, along with thousands of others, have been murdered by the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) in the Middle East, and by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The victims
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Is there a qualitative difference between the murder of over six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Shoah and the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya? I don’t think so. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a national, cultural, or
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